Tim writes: this is a juvenile Western Sandpiper being engulfed by the foam of an incoming wave. It was roosting on a beach when both it and me were taken by surprise by an unusually big wave. I was lying flat on my belly at the time and so was soaked to the skin but I did manage to get the photo I was after.
Western Sandpipers breed abundantly in NW Alaska and adjacent parts of Chukotka in Siberia. They winter in California and the Caribbean but are abundant on passage through British Columbia where I took this.
Taken with Nikon D500 and Nikkor 300mm f4 lens with a 1.4x converter at f5.6 ISO 160 1/1250s
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