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I kept hearing a rustle from under the thick vegetation..she finally came out for an all too brief moment!!
This is the same Fruiting Fig Tree....I think this male was so stuffed it took a little break!
(Explore #423, 8 November 2011)
Females are gray & yellow. Males are black & orange. Redstarts use the trick of flashing their colors by rapidly fanning out the tailfeathers. Supposedly this startles insects and flushes them out of vegetation so the birds can more easily catch them.
Female American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)
Garland, Tx
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There were a lot of big fellas on the trail. On my way out one was sitting on a branch right on the trails edge. His face was about four feet from my face. He gave me a couple of dirty looks, and I was on my way.
I got excited thinking this was a Yellow-throated Vireo, but I think it's actually a lady Pine
Sept 24, Prospect Park Brooklyn
Photographed 24 September 2022, Morning Flight, Gooseberry Neck, Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts
Last fall when I visited Suken Meadow park I met this strange warbler picking the seed and berries from the plants and flowers. It was bigger than yellow rumped warbler with more slender silhouette. It's the first time I've seen this kind of bird. Although very quick and rapidly changing positions, it allowed me come pretty close to take few shots. ANy idea what kind of warbler it is?
Elk Island National Park, AB, Canada
September 5, 2010
Came back from my 1-week vacation in Shanghai and areas two weeks ago. Unfortunately, I got really sick after I came back, so I didn't spend too much time on the computer.
Still posting some shots that I took before I went on vacation. In the mean time, I got about 75% of the Shanghai World Expo photos processed and 0% on others. Hopefully I can get them all done soon.
Note: Thanks to Ken's correction, the above shot is the Palm Warbler while the photos below are the Orange-crowned Warblers. I named them all Orange-crowned because I saw this warbler first checking me out and flew off, then a few minutes later in the same area, this Palm Warbler appeared in front of me briefly, and I thought it was the same O-C Warbler.
Creamer's Field, Fairbanks, Alaska. These cranes are probably destined for Texas.
"Almost all lesser sandhill cranes in Alaska pass through two migration “funnels.” One is the Copper River Delta through which about 20,000 cranes fly on their way along the Pacific Flyway to and from central California. The other is in the Tanana Valley near Delta Junction-George Lake. In early May and mid-September, 200,000 Mid-continent cranes pass through this northern funnel, with as many as 50,000 passing through per day during the peak. At least 50,000 cranes nesting in northeast Siberia travel this route and cross the Bering Strait during these migrations. Another 8,000 birds pass through the Yukon Flats area near Eagle. Both northern groups travel the Central Flyway through Canada and the plains states to and from their southwest wintering grounds. When taking off, flocks of cranes ascend in great circling columns, riding thermal currents of rising air, then form into “V”-formations. They fly very high and appear to be primarily daylight and fairweather migrants, traveling as far as 350 miles a day." (Alaska Department of Fish and Game, link)
I saw him chase a crow into a nearby tree. I quick-waddled over to the tree in which he landed. I could barely see him through the branches. A quick couple of proof of falcons pictures and he flew down to take a look at me.
Photographed 24 September 2022, Morning Flight, Gooseberry Neck, Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts
Another new bird for me from the fall migration. The first few days were tough with the rain and terrible light......but without those conditions the birds may not have stopped (that's what the experienced birders I ran into were saying anyway) The birds were so occupied actively feeding all day long that it definitely helped to overcome the inhospitable weather.
This Blue Phase Snow Goose presented himself up front and center strutting his handsome coloring amongst all the white. The Blue Phase continues to be a rare sighting. This early in the season there were a lot of young Snow Geese still sporting their gray coloration, but the distinctive black of this guy really stands out. Among the thousands and thousands of Snow Geese present this day, with the aid of binoculars I was able to spot a total of 5 Blue Phase. In one area there were two immatures still showing a grayish body with the undeniable markings on the white head. All in all, a most satisfying day of birding.
Some of my favorite fall visitors that I hope to see again in a few months
Regulus satrapa
Lambton County
Southern Ontario
Canada
Fall 2014