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When a red-tailed hawk flew overhead, the dowitcher and the least sandpiper took off and flew away. Never saw the bird again. Managed to capture the take off. Funny this is, the tiny sandpiper made a bigger splash.
Juvenile Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus )
Least Sandpiper (Calidris minutilla)
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This rare bird was very cooperative and hung around several minutes, allowing me to get lots of good documentation shots. Including several reflection shots.
Juvenile Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus )
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Guess what showed up in the hundreds today, I wanted to show you how many, but then I thought I'd better add a portrait (taken in the spring) so you could admire a close up too!
From middle of August. Top of Kennesaw Mountain.
On two occasions in August I had the good fortune of observing a pair of these birds at very close range at the top of the mountain. One was walking on the large boulders found near the sign up top. They weren't high up in the trees as they often are but rather in short bushy scrub found at the top of the mountain. What a delight to observe such a beautiful warbler at such close range.
The osprey is found year-round in Florida both as a nesting species and as a spring and fall migrant passing between more northern areas and Central and South America.
Photographed 16 September 2018, Smith Point Hawk Watch, Candy Cain Abshier WMA, Smith Point, Chambers County, Texas
At least I think it is the correct id. I thought this was a somewhat different view than I usually shoot. It barely looks like the Cape May in the previous image.
I'm not a wildlife photographer. Technically these images are lacking, but for me they capture some of the form of these magnificent birds. At this time of year Sandhill Cranes are resting in Fairbanks by the thousands, stopping briefly on their long journeys to the south. They are amazing creatures and cross the skies in large chevron formations, sometimes of a hundred birds or more, accompanied by their prehistoric cries.
I see them a couple of times a year and always only one. Beautiful bird and quite a bit larger than the white wing doves. First one I've seen since I started taking photos this past summer.
Photographed 16 September 2018, Smith Point Hawk Watch, Candy Cain Abshier WMA, Smith Point, Chambers County, Texas
"Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language. The quality of cranes lies, I think, in this higher gamut, as yet beyond the reach of words.”
~ Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (Thanks to Belinda for the quote)