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Upper wings of this medium sized butterfly with elongated forewings. The upper surface of the wings is bright orange with black markings. The forewing cell contains three black-rimmed white spots. These butterflies are migrating south to escape wintry weather.
A shorebird you can see without going to the beach, Killdeer are graceful plovers common to lawns, golf courses, athletic fields, and parking lots. This time the killdeer is behaving like a typical Shorebird, searching the mud flats.
Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge is best known for migratory waterfowl. Waterfowl are present September through April and numbers regularly peak at over 500,000 ducks and 250,000 geese. Sacramento NWR is an important wintering grounds for the Tule Greater White-fronted Geese. We spotted hundreds of these beauties as we traveled the Auto Tour route. This pair caught our eye as they huddled together reflecting on the moment.
Okay...so yesterday was my first day birding for a couple of months. Although, sciatica remains to be a pain in the arse (literally), it was so good to drive out to the Salisbury Plain to look for some migrating whinchats. The trip was a success! Plenty of stonechat about also!!
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We knew it was time to go to Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge as the birds are in the middle of migrating. We realized we were not the only ones with this thought as the Auto Tour had more cars than normal, and it was a weekday. There were thousands of snow geese everywhere in the preserve. So we concentrated on getting just the right picture at just the right time.
A song bird makes a brief stop near the Lake Erie shoreline on his journey north during the spring migration. (Explore # 292)
The red -winged balckbirds come wave after wave this time of year, hundreds and thousands at a time....
I made this image sitting on my deck looking out at the pond. Yellow-Rumped Warblers were migrating through and stopping for a drink and a bath. For them, lilypads make great bathtubs.
I made this image with my Sigma 50-500mm lens(not what you see to the right)..
relaxing bird
floating on a lily pad
taking a break
Image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer
The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) is a medium-sized woodpecker with pied black and white plumage and a red patch on the lower belly. Males and young birds also have red markings on the neck or head. This species is found across the Palearctic including parts of North Africa. Across most of its range it is resident, but in the north some will migrate if the conifer cone crop fails. Some individuals have a tendency to wander, leading to the recent recolonisation of Ireland and to vagrancy to North America. Great spotted woodpeckers chisel into trees to find food or excavate nest holes, and also drum for contact and territorial advertisement; they have anatomical adaptations to manage the physical stresses from the hammering action. This species is similar to the Syrian woodpecker.
After an uncomfortable night trying to sleep in this hot spell ....the temperature at 1am was 21C...i decided it was the waste of time trying to sleep and grabbed a camera and monopod and took an early walk by the river, i spotted this angler that had gone to sleep in his tent, and in the distance the calls of a cuckoo that had not yet migrated back to Africa from where we have imported this hot weather ...he must feel quite at home here.
Middle Creek reservoire is a stop-over for snow geese on their migration path from Florida to the Arctic, as well as for swans and Canadian geese. Many thousands can be converging on this relatively small body of water, completely covering it in white.
Unlike the orange-crowned warbler that can easily hide its orange crown, the golden-crowned kinglet's golden crown is always on full display. This golden-crowned kinglet is catching gnats and no-see-ums in the wooded grove that acts like a little oasis for migrating songbirds in the open prairie habitat around here. After spending the summer in Canada's vast boreal forest, these hardy golden-crowned kinglets sometimes winter right here in Winneshiek County since they can survive temperatures to -40 F even though they are barely bigger than a hummingbird.
The dogwood berries are getting gone fast with the warblers, cardinals, grosbeak, red finch, and squirrels eating them. I have been glued to my windows watching for them. I can see them better if I stay inside and then they come up close where I can see them from my second story window above the four dogwood trees in my lower yard.
Was a scramble taking off the ND filter and changing settings to take this capture of the geese ... but was able to do so before they were out of the frame :)
I don't have a dedicated macro lens at this point (and it shows), so it's the cheaper route for now. But I've enjoyed and been inspired by so much of Peter Miles' work (www.flickr.com/photos/forumcz) that I still want to try my hand and just experiment a bit nonetheless. Here we have a small colored glass figurine from my china cabinet, with a fiery border to punch the orange and red tones.
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i got an "ear-full" and ran with the telephoto, i managed to catch a "museum" of waxwings through the trees, they have been passing through our garden for a few weeks now .
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If you go to Brownsville to see the tundra swans, don't be surprised if you see some trumpeter swans too! If you zoom in on these four swans you will notice that their bills are solid black. If you then go back to the tundra swan photo and zoom in, you will see a tiny yellow dot right in front of the eye on their black bills. That is really the only way to tell them apart for sure other than their call and these four swans were trumpeting loudly as they flew by. Trumpeter swans nest here in the Upper Midwest while the tundra swans are migrating south from the far northern regions of Canada and Alaska.
I was in the right place at the right time this morning. While walking along the waterfront and looking for birds I saw 13 Avocets flying around for a few minutes before landing on the shore of the beach. I have seen them here before but never this many at one time.
By June, the Spring migration has slowed down markedly. Hopefully, this Prothonotary Warbler found his mate :-)
`MOVING LANDSCAPES
Mr Wilde has said that sunsets are out of fashion. This defect
could undoubtedly be covered
up if landscapes constantly moved around. The fact of seeing a
landscape in the same place
- is necessarily boring. The contrary would be charming. And
spectacular. A cluster of
trees migrating under the sky. Or a tree going on its way to the
jungle - alone -straight-
on its countless little, white legs.
But then people would invent cages to trap landscapes. and a
landscape in a cage can't feel
very happy.
Luis Vidales
Translation: Nicolas Suescun
She sat on the limb; so timid and watched all alone as the other birds were eating. I saw her sitting there and jumped up and found some fresh sunflower seeds and filled up the feeder to give them all easy access. I was sitting in my chair watching and soon she was right there on the feeder with the home birds eating happily. That was two days ago. I haven't seen her since. Happy Travels little bird.
The orange-bellied leafbird (Chloropsis hardwickii) is a bird native to the central and eastern Himalayas, Yunnan and northern parts of Southeast Asia. The scientific name commemorates the English naturalist Thomas Hardwicke.
It is brightly coloured with an orange belly, a green back, a blue tail and flight feathers, and a black and blue patch over its throat and chest. It has a long, curved beak. It feeds on insects, spiders and nectar. Orange-bellied leafbirds make their nests from roots and fibers which are suspended from the edges of twigs at the end of a tree branch. They do not migrate.
"A migrating White-crowned Sparrow was once tracked moving 300 miles in a single night. Alaskan White-crowned Sparrows migrate about 2,600 miles to winter in Southern California."
A pair of Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis) search for waste grain in a harvested grain crop in the agricultural landscape near Simpson, Saskatchewan, Canada in east central part of the province.
Thousands of Sandhill Cranes stop in the province to rest and feed on waste grain as they migrate south for the winter.
23 September, 2014.
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We get large flocks of three kind of migrants this time of year, red-winged blackbirds, grackles and starlings. These are the grackles.
Snow buntings are large buntings, with striking 'snowy' plumages. Males in summer have all white heads and underparts contrasting with a black mantle and wing tips. Females are a more mottled above. In autumn and winter birds develop a sandy/buff wash to their plumage and males have more mottled upperparts.
Globally, they breed around the arctic from Scandinavia to Alaska, Canada and Greenland and migrate south in winter. They are a scarce breeding species in the UK, in Scotland, making them an Amber List species. They are more widespread in winter in the north and east when residents are joined by continental birds.
They are listed under Schedule 1 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act. They feed on insects and seeds (Courtesy RSPB).
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Black-tailed Deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) Doe
Cascade Mountains - Jackson County - Oregon - USA
"The black-tailed deer is one of nine subspecies of the mule deer. It was first recorded by the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-06.
Black-tailed deer live in the temperate coniferous forests along the Pacific coast. These forests are characterized by cool temperatures and lots of rain, but an overall mild climate. Black-tailed deer do not therefore migrate in response to seasonal changes, unlike some of the other mule deer subspecies. Instead, black-tailed deer often spend their entire life in the same general area.
Black-tailed deer can be distinguished from mule deer by their larger tail, the back of which is completely covered with black or dark brown hairs. Mule deer have smaller tails in which only the tip is covered with black hairs. Black-tailed deer are generally smaller than mule deer."
- nhm.org/site/explore-exhibits/permanent-exhibits/north-american-mammals/black-tailed-deer
A pair of bewick swans flying over the tack piece at Slimbridge Wetlands Centre. All the bewick swans have now departed the reserve and are migrating back to Siberia
The great spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) is a medium-sized woodpecker with pied black and white plumage and a red patch on the lower belly. Males and young birds also have red markings on the neck or head. This species is found across the Palearctic including parts of North Africa. Across most of its range it is resident, but in the north some will migrate if the conifer cone crop fails. Some individuals have a tendency to wander, leading to the recent recolonisation of Ireland and to vagrancy to North America. Great spotted woodpeckers chisel into trees to find food or excavate nest holes, and also drum for contact and territorial advertisement; they have anatomical adaptations to manage the physical stresses from the hammering action. This species is similar to the Syrian woodpecker.
First saw Black-bellied Whistling Ducks in the Rio Grande Valley, at the very south of Texas, three years ago. Today they are in large numbers in many colonies throughout my suburb of Houston, 3.5 degrees farther north in latitude, about 385 kilometers (240 miles). Global warming? This shot was taken on my morning walk about Double Lake, Sugar Land, Texas. Notice an Egyptian Goose in the background, also a new migrant, hanging out with the ducks.
Love the way these vibrant, little Bittersweet berries seem to be flying. Yes, they're invasive but they truly are beautiful in the Fall & Winter landscapes. (Don't you agree, Carol?) :)
Actually, the scientific name for this Robin is rather interesting:
" Turdus migratorius".............
Regardless, it's nice to see them back here (although many do not migrate!!).
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