Golden Rays
by Debby Pueschel
Title
Golden Rays
Artist
Debby Pueschel
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Photograph - Photograph
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As the sunset begins to fall toward the horizon, golden rays accentuate the edge of the ocean foam and the beautiful brown feathers of this Curlew's neck and chest. The strange looking bird with the curved beak is out for its dinner in the surf. The curlew any of various largely brownish chiefly migratory birds (especially genus Numenius) having long legs and a long slender down-curved bill and related to the sandpipers and snipes. North America's largest shorebird, the Long-billed Curlew, is a graceful creature with an almost impossibly long, thin, and curved bill. This speckled, cinnamon-washed shorebird probes deep into mud and sand for aquatic invertebrates on its coastal wintering grounds and picks up grasshoppers on the breeding grounds. It breeds in the grasslands of the Great Plains and Great Basin and spends the winter in wetlands, tidal estuaries, mudflats, flooded fields, and beaches.
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April 14th, 2022
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Morris Finkelstein
Beautiful Curlew close up photograph with great pose, colors, and composition, Debby! F/L
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