Although the first part of our evening visit to Bottle Beach didn’t go too well, photographically speaking, things got much better near the end of our visit. It probably wasn’t a whole hour, but it was definitely golden, and the photographs taken were spectacular — or at least they seemed that way to me.
None of the Marbled Godwits I saw not too long ago in Bodega Bay looked nearly as golden as this Godwit did.
Normally, I try to avoid extremely dark backgrounds, but here it seems to accentuate the gold colors in the Godwit, the Dowitchers,
and the Dunlin.
And the later it got, the more golden the moment became
until it was time to go back to the motel before returning to the beach at the next high tide, 7:00 AM the following morning.