This is I believe a Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus.)  Okay this all started this morning.  I was sitting at my home office desk and thinking “I don’t want to be at work today.”   Not that I don’t love the work that I do because I truly do but I just needed a break.  So I called my associate and said I’m taking PTO and I’ll see you tomorrow.  🙂  Is this a great country or what!

So  I went back to bed and took a nice long nap.  Then I got on the tread mill and did 40 minutes (for all the good that will do.)   Ate some lunch, took a shower and then grabbed my camera and headed for Guttenberg.

Why Guttenberg?  Well I haven’t been there for a while.   It is a beautiful community on the Mississippi and I was hoping to find some interesting things to capture.  I didn’t realize that I would make an image of a bird that I have never seen before.  That’s pretty cool.

The image above is of a common Robin.  He was sitting in the tree very close to where I captured the Long-billed Dowitcher.  I liked the way the image looked so I included it in this post.

Finally as I was leaving the area and heading back for Dubuque I came across these three turtles sunning themselves on a tree branch sticking out of the water.  I drove pretty close to them and they didn’t dive so I took a bunch of images of them.  The sun was too high in the sky and that caused it to be too bright for it to turn out the way i wanted but you get the idea.

So that’s part of the adventure for yesterday.  I shot about 90 images.  I saw a lot of Coots, a Blue Heron (which I couldn’t get a picture of) lots of Geese but I didn’t shoot any of them.  I’ve only got a thousand goose pictures.

I’ll have some more stuff tomorrow from my impromptu photo adventure.  Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your Thursday and be careful.