After welcoming and celebrating western sandpipers every spring on their migratory stopover on the intertidal mudflats of the Fraser River Estuary in British Columbia, I finally had the incredible privilege to meet them again on their breeding grounds in Alaska, a very special moment for me! We traveled to Utqiagvik and Nome, Alaska in May and June where we filmed a variety of shorebirds and got to experience spectacular landscapes and the magical late evening light. Not much sleep