https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/08/10/making-the-best-of-a-muddy-situation/ The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:34:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 https://www.birdsasart-blog.com/baa/2021/08/10/making-the-best-of-a-muddy-situation/comment-page-1/#comment-1856517 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 15:53:34 +0000 http://www.birdsasart-blog.com/?p=75659#comment-1856517 Thanks for the refresher course on aging Yellowlegs. I encourage everyone to get a copy of your Shorebirds book, if they can find one. Your experience at JBWR reminded me of a similar adventure in 2012. I parked at the North Channel, and rather than heading for the northwest corner of the East Pond, I walked down the wide path toward the RR tracks and found a little-used path into the phrags, heading toward the northeast corner of the pond. The trail, what there was of it, all but disappeared, leaving me to bushwhack through calf-deep water underlain with thick sticky mud. No one knew I was in there, and there were times that I wondered if I would ever get out. I finally came out at the northeast corner of the pond, and had a very lovely encounter with a prancing Snowy Egret.

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