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Sample of Dead Birds that struck buildings in Washington D.C. during the Fall and Spring of 2012 in a short stretch of streets from Union Station to the Convention Center, photo stitched together from 18 separate hi res shots. Specimens surveyed (with permits) by Lights Out DC group and deposited in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History , can you name all the species?
The monarchs gather each fall at the Peninsula Point State Park in Stonington (Upper Peninsula of Michigan). They wait there along the shores of Lake Michigan for a north wind or favorable flying conditions. When the time is right, they fly en masse over Lake Michigan and continue on their long journey to Mexico.
We felt our first hint of Fall yesterday in North Texas. A cool front late Friday night dropped us from our normal 95 to 105 degree days to a wonderful high of 83. The cool spell caused the Cattle Egrets to start flocking together, and it gave the local horses something to get excited about.
Thanks goodness I had my camera handy to catch some of the excitement.
Sorry I've been gone so long - I really miss my Flickr friends.
The dew was very thick this morning. This little one seemed not to notice the big droplet on its chin.
Fall migration has begun as I spotted this warbling vireo and some warblers have stopped in for a bit before heading down south.
Photographed 24 September 2022, Morning Flight, Gooseberry Neck, Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts
(Setophaga americana) -- Northern Parula
A small warbler of the upper canopy, the Northern Parula flutters at the edges of branches plucking insects. This bluish gray warbler with yellow highlights breeds in forests laden with Spanish moss or beard lichens, from Florida to the boreal forest, and it's sure to give you "warbler neck." It hops through branches bursting with a rising buzzy trill that pinches off at the end. Its white eye crescents, chestnut breast band, and yellow-green patch on the back set it apart from other warblers.
Read more at: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/northern_parula/overview
I only see these big, beautiful doves during spring & fall migration. Always fun to look out and spot one.
Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
Garland, Texas
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Ventral view of monarch butterfly nectaring on golden crownbeard (Verbesina encelioides) on private land in Stillwater, Oklahoma, October 2, 2008.
(USDA/NRCS photo by Ray A. Moranz)
Photographed 24 September 2022, Morning Flight, Gooseberry Neck, Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts
Starting a new Creation adventure. This beautiful little Eastern Phoebe back in the bushes, enjoying the fall morning Florida sunshine!
A couple of Chestnut-sided Warblers in non-breeding plumage on their way to Mexico or Central America for the winter.
The Indigos were a lot shyer than the warblers during the fall migration. They were pulling tufts of fuzzy material from the grasses that they were sitting on and eating the seeds in them. I had given up getting a shot but as I was driving out of the parking lot I saw this one and took the picture through the car window opening. I liked the way the blue feathers looked growing in. Explore #324, 2 Nov 2011
Finally saw some verifiable stilt sandpipers. We only see them during migration. There was a flock a good ways from me on the other side of a mud flat. Most of the larger birds with long bills are the stilts. Possibly a couple of dowagers too. Smaller birds most likely least and/or semipalmated sandpipers. Stilts were lifers for me.
Stilt Sandpiper (Calidris himantopus)
Lake Ray Hubbard, Wynn Joyce Park, Garland, Tx
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