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Was happy to see this visitor in the Charleston Slough a couple of weeks ago. Here's my lame attempt to take a handheld video:youtu.be/GzHZPd4aX1M?si=frTTwOUJUWJI14AS
There is no black on the throat or central upper chest area on this 'fall' individual. This is first fall female plumage. This species begins to move south as early as the end of July in our area.
Georgia Mountains.
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Though they have special tubular tongues to extract nectar, these birds are focused on spruce trees and the spruce budworm when they travel north. They move in and out of the inner branches of coniferous trees, eating any insect they find. Occasionally they pop out in a way that enables a neat image. There can be a lot of time waiting though.
Haven't seen a ruby-throat hummingbird in the garden for the past couple of days as the Fall Migration (these birds go south for the winter; return in the spring)... this is a photo of the "last bird" from earlier this month.
Dozens of Kinglets, (both the Golden-crowned and Ruby-crowned) foraging for insects at Port Burwell Provincial Park.
The birch tree is such a favourite with the migrating birds. Hope the tree lasts for a few more years.
Note how pale the beak is compared to the black beak in the spring. Most warblers show a lighter beak color in the fall, but this species has the most dramatic change.
Along with the Ye11ow-throated warb1er this warbler species has the largest beak. This species is a cavity nester, and the only other warbler species to do so is Lucy's warb1er.
Centennial Olympic Park. Atlanta GA. 9/17/2017.
Woodcock Creek Dam, Crawford County, PA. We tend to see these warblers in larger numbers during the fall rather than spring migration. Thanks for looking and any comments or feedback.
Still processing images from the fall, thanks to an insane work schedule. I really like this image from time in a creek with a relaxed Lesser Yellowlegs.
Am letzten Wochenende waren wir auf "Kranichjagd" im Diepholzer Moor und konnten viele dieser wunderschönen Vögel beobachten, wenn auch nur aus weiter Ferne, da sie wirklich extrem scheu sind. An einem Morgen hatten wir dichten Nebel - bei schlechter Sicht waren die Vögel des Glücks etwas entspannter und uns gelangen tolle Nebelfotos.
Last weekend we went "crane hunting" and were able to observe many of these beautiful birds, albeit only from a far distance as they are extremely shy. One morning we had thick fog with poor visibility and the birds were a bit more relaxed. So we managed to get some great foggy photos.
This handsome fall specimen lacks black in the central throat and chest areas. She is a first fall female (born this spring). For our western friends the presence of yellow in the vent (area in rear below wing edge) helps separate her from dull T0wnsend's warblers.
Kennesaw Mountain, GA. 10/14/2016.
At a first glance, I thought it was just another Northern Cardinal at a distance. When I put my binoculars on I realized that that was a Summer Tanager. Nice to see a Summer Tanager with its best red feathers still on!
Photographed 24 September 2022, Morning Flight, Gooseberry Neck, Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts
(Setophaga coronata) -- Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warblers are impressive in the sheer numbers with which they flood the continent each fall. Shrubs and trees fill with the streaky brown-and-yellow birds and their distinctive, sharp chips. Though the color palette is subdued all winter, you owe it to yourself to seek these birds out on their spring migration or on their breeding grounds. Spring molt brings a transformation, leaving them a dazzling mix of bright yellow, charcoal gray and black, and bold white.
Read more at: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow-rumped_Warbler/overview
Looking for a place to land, feed and rest overnight in midst of their migration. There are many glorious sounds in nature we get to enjoy. Tundra Swans' cooing and whistling is one of them ❤️
At a Baltic Sea shore during fall migration
Pfuhlschnepfe mit Beute an einem Ostseestrand auf dem Herbstzug
I dropped by Downsview Park and was pleasantly surprised to see 12 different species of warblers in one little corner of the park, I am sure I missed a few. Here's a montage of 10 of them, the two missing are Yellow-rumped and Palm warbler, just couldn't fit them all. Their southward migration is well underway, I wish them good luck on their long journey. All these photos were taken by standing in one place, didn't have to go look for them.
Top Row (L to R): Northern Parula, Black-throated Green, Blackpoll
Middle Row: Cape May, Blackburnian, Nashville, Magnolia
Bottom Row: Black-throated Blue, Tennessee and Bay-breasted.
This time of the year they aren't as colorful as they were during their inward journey in the Spring, but nature compensates by providing colorful settings.
This is the last of the Dotterel series I wanted to share - and as the weather has changed in Southeastern Germany, these Eurasian Dotterels are moving on to the warmer regions just south of the Mediterranean Sea. Hope to see you again next year!
Looking through my pictures from my outing today I found a few blackpoll warblers . St.Albert Alberta
One of a couple of Blackburnian Warblers I photographed at Plantation Preserve recently.
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This Warbler species, seen here a few weeks ago bulking up for the southbound fall migration, is now a common and plentiful presence in the Ottawa area during spring and fall migrations. It seems to me, purely anecdotally, that they are more common, especially in fall, than they were fifteen years ago.
In this are they really seem to prefer coniferous trees for hunting insects, and they can come down quite low and more or less indifferently to human presence, at least in my experience. They have a relentless hunger for small insects, and pore through the pine and spruce. This bird is examining the underside of branches for more food, and had popped out right in front of me about head high.
In one of those dual-purpose wonders of nature, Cape May Warblers have a tongue that is especially designed for the extraction of food from flowers. On their winter resting grounds in the Caribbean this will come in handier than it does in Ottawa in late summer.
This being a juvenile bird as identified by the very prominent yellowish wingbars. Found in Aktau, at the beach of the Caspian Sea in one of several areas with tall reed, all filled with migrating songbirds.
Every year, large flocks of cranes migrate through my neighborhood. The Diepholzer Moorniederung is an important resting place for thousands of these magnificent birds – a must-see in late October or early November. Here, I snapped a picture of a small family (the young one is in the middle with the brownish head) taking off from a field where they can often be found foraging during the day.
This is definitely one of the species that sparked my interest in birding and bird photography. I first took pictures of cranes flying overhead many years ago, then started going out to see them up close on the fields, and so on. It’s an absolute joy to witness their return every year.
Goldenstedter Moor, Lower Saxony, Germany
These wading birds are mostly seen during migration when they pass between nesting grounds in the mosquito-ridden bogs of boreal Canada and their wintering grounds on marshes of very southern USA and Mexico. A very surprising fact of the Greater Yellowlegs is that although they are typically associated with wetlands, on their breeding grounds they perch atop trees!
I had incredible time witnessing THOUSANDS of Sandhill Cranes migrating and visibly exhaustingly arriving to Horicon Marsh, WI, tonight to roost overnight. Then...there was this little traveler minding his own business in the setting sun!
Hello there,
As luck would have it, a juvenile Harris's Sparrow suddenly landed on the log which had been laced with seeds by another park visitor. As it matures, the head and breast feathers will fill in so the speckled look will disappear.
Harris's Sparrow is a bird of the central plains of North America. It breeds in the scrub-tundra of north-central Canada and winters in the Great Plains of the United States. If I am very lucky, I will spot them during spring or fall migration.
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