Ferry rides don’t allow us to reach the beach at the same time every day, which means our cloud cover for shorebird photography might or might not always cooperate – leading us to get or miss sunrise altogether. On this morning we arrived a little after sunrise, after getting my Z 9/Z600f4 TC ready, I took the chance to snap our greeting shot, which proved brilliant for an instant but soon disappeared behind clouds for what turned out to be an outstanding day of shorebird photography!