Not as frustrating as the all-too-common obstructing twig ;-)

From Ohio a couple weeks ago

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Woodcock Creek Park, Crawford County, PA. Thanks for looking and any comments or feedback.

An uncommon visitor to our Province.

Summit County, Ohio | October 2022 | Nikon Z9 | 600mm f4 |

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Standing guard beside the carcass that had attracted it, just before sundown in the Ottawa River.

Maybe its COVID and reduced human activity, bit it seems the fall migration this year was heavier than yers past. And, its not because of work from home- I have been full time now for awhile...

Blackburnian Warbler

As I was sitting on my front porch yesterday morning this beautiful Ovenbird landed on a tree branch right in front of me!

Fall colors

Passing through heading south

Magnolia warbler

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From Ohio this week. I'm having lots of fun photographing fall migrants.

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my yard, queen Annes co. MD. mbp Queenstown quad.

A Chestnut-sided Warbler I found at Plantation Preserve recently. It was moving rapidly and constantly.

Thanks for viewing and for any favs or comments!

Cold, windy and gloomy late October day on the lake. American Coots have gathered, floating in rafts of hundreds, or thousands, of these waterbirds. Some of them will eventually fly south, some of them will stay as long as there is open water for them.

Fun fact: Coots are close relatives of Sandhill Cranes and Rails but very distant to ducks like Mallards or Teals!

From Ohio this month

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I was surprised to find a male redstart in full plumage a couple days ago.

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Another shot of this beauty out front in God's garden playing in the sprinklers.

It was very nice to see this little wren show up in our yard during fall migration. Its usually a bird you have to travel north to the boreal forest to see in the summer.

Magnolia warbler

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Conservation Park, Alma, Michigan

This tiny bird, smaller than a chickadee, was zooming around inside a shrub, literally a blur. I'm glad he settled down long enough on his fall migration for me to snap these pictures.

The name Ruby-crown comes from a ruby spot right on top of their head, which they only display when they are agitated. I have only seen it in the spring when they are displaying the ruby crown against a potential rival.

Woodcock Creek Lake, Crawford County, PA. Thanks for looking and any comments or feedback.

From our Ohio Autumn Songbird trip last week.

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Thanks for View, Fave and Comment!

My yard, Queen Annes co. MD. mbp Queenstown quad.

Silhouette of a Semipalmated Plover pulling a worm out -

Tri-state region, East Coast, USA

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This photo was taken at the location described on page 27 of my Shorebirds of the Tri-state Area during Fall Migration guide: www.greggard.com/location-guides/shorebirds-tri-state-nj-...

Thank you in advance for kind comments!

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(this note is from a photo, four years ago this month....)

"These scenes are becoming less common as the population of little birds in the garden is gradually diminishing. September here in Arkansas (USA) is height of migration season, as birds head south for the winter."

The adult males leave first in late July with the adult females following next. The immature hummingbirds are the last to leave in September. It is rare for hummingbirds to linger in Ontario after the beginning of October.

Lemoine Point, Kingston

I spotted this solitary sandpiper roaming solitary for two weeks in a row. However, that is very rare here, so maybe I spotted a spotted snadpiper. In any case, they are not breeding so hard to say. Last weekend @Peck Road WC Park

Monarch butterfly migration through Oklahoma City, September 28, 2018. The monarchs had spent the day feeding on butterfly bushes, native sunflowers, and other flowers that they could find.

From Ohio this fall

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Johnson Ferry South. Atlanta Area. 9/16/2017.

This warbler more so than most is difficult to age and sex especially in the fall. The fall plumage differs remarkably from the spring plumage. We don't see many in the spring thru here, but in the fall the migration route is solidly thru the Atlanta area. This species breeds well to the north of us. The closest breeders in recent years I understand were at the high elevation of Mt. Mitchell in North Carolina. I have never seen them there myself despite looking for them on a few occasions there. I have seen them on breeding grounds in Michigan, and Cape Breton National Park in Nova Scotia. They are exceedingly common in Cape Breton.

Fox Sparrow - Passerella iliaca

Hi Everyone!

Fox Sparrows are fun to watch because they crouch low and hop/scratch to forage for seeds or insects. Sometimes you won't see the bird, but you'll see a pile of leaf litter move. It might be the Fox Sparrow in there, scratching away! I have seen them dig through an inch of frozen ground in attempts to find food.

This is the Eastern species which is more brick red than those found in the Northwest.

Thanks a million for your views, your comments and faves! Constructive criticism always welcome!

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With a cold spell coming, I wanted to post something from warmer days...

Cochran Shoals. Atlanta area. 9/15/2017.

Since the auricular is not solid black, and the bird rather has a black eye-line it is not an adult male. The view above is not adequate to help distinguish between a female or first fall male.

On a side note I found a dead Swainson's Thrush outside my work building today. It was clearly a building glass strike, a hazard of migration. My work building is just two stories, and it has one outside wall segment of solid glass windows, and it happens to face towards the southeast. The bird was found below that area.

Another sunset visitor to the grass, this time pushing the ISO to 8000 still produced a reasonable image...

From Ohio this week.

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A Least Sandpiper walks along the shore in Washington County Maine.

Dark-eyed junco

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From Ohio this month

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A series of 5 images, all of the same bird. they show the strength and weakness of the D6 when it comes to warbler photography. When you can get close to the bird, the D6 is wonderful (see images I posted railer). From near by, you get beautiful detail and superb low moise at high ISO (all images were shot at ISO6400, 1/2500, f5.6 with spot metering). the strength? full frame, 14ffps and a super sticky autofocus captures an entire sequence of a jumping warbler, every frame a keeper. the weakness? cropping a full frame 21mp Chip leaves lots of detail to the imagination. I would love a DX version of the D6, or a D6 with a low noise 36mp chip...Note the bird must be well fed since it ignores a katydid nymph and a cricket.

From Ohio this week. I'm having lots of fun photographing fall migrants.

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