Red Knot - an endangered Canadian shorebird

Another new piece - this will become a "Companion" piece to a larger scene - this is a Red Knot - an endangered shorebird that breeds in the Canadian Arctic and winters on the southern most tip of Argentina. They stock up on Horseshoe Crab eggs in the Delaware Bay before returning to the Arctic making their annual roundtrip flight of 26,000 kms one of the longest of any bird species.


 Below is the first step:

Here is a second step - a few hours later