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I found a fairly large flock of these bluebirds that had still not migrated south. They had stopped for a drink at a local lake. The lake was mostly frozen but they found little melted spots.
Happy National Bird Day!
An unhappy robin that migrated back too early again,
photographed through my window. We are getting more snow today, neverending. Warmer weather coming by Monday, 70°F (21°C)! We are going to completely skip the 50's and 60's.
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I am honored that this capture has won the second place in the November 2021 Photo Contest in Flickrology.
The Summer Tanagers are passing through our area. Always so good to have them around, if only for just a little while.
Wolf in the rain, the Mercantour National Park, France
Since 1992, the wolves that had been exterminated in France over a hundred years ago are living here again. They kept migrating across the Italian ‘green border’.
Today, there are 25 to 30 wolves divided into packs of five to six, roaming through the seven valleys of the park again.
The Mercantour National Park is a unique nature reserve located in the very southeast corner of France. It covers an area of 2152 square kilometers, almost the size of the Principality of Monaco. The Mercantour is a unique nature reserve that aims at integrating distinguished ideals such as the protection of nature, the local and economic advancement and the preservation of traditional land use.
Spotted this migrating Ruby-crowned Kinglet along the Grindstone Marsh Trail during an October hike in the Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington, Ontario.
(Regulus calendula)
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)
A pair of Trumpeter Swans enjoying the late day sunlight. We spend most of the day trying to get a decent photo. It happened just as we were leaving the area.
Another traditional thacthed house and an Akha woman wearing a distinctive headgear. I knew that their headgear was not for special occasions but for day-to-day use.
Akha people migrated to Myanmar, Thailand and Laos from southern China like Shans and Bamars (Myanmarese), but they are regarded as a new comer from the north by the local Shans and other ethnic minorities in Kyaingtong.
The red -winged balckbirds come wave after wave this time of year, hundreds and thousands at a time....
Pampas deer (male) - is a species of deer that live in the grasslands of South America at low elevations. They are known as venado or gama in Spanish and as veado-campeiro in Portuguese. Their habitat includes water and hills, often with winter drought, and grass that is high enough to cover a standing deer. Many of them live on the Pantanal wetlands, where there are ongoing conservation efforts, and other areas of annual flooding cycles. Human activity has changed much of the original landscape. They are known to live up to 12 years in the wild, longer if captive, but are threatened due to over-hunting and habitat loss. Many people are concerned over this loss, because a healthy deer population means a healthy grassland, and a healthy grassland is home to many species, some also threatened. Many North American birds migrate south to these areas, and if the Pampas deer habitat is lost, they are afraid these bird species will also decline.]There are approximately 80,000 Pampas deer total, with the majority of them living in Brazil. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pampas_deer
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The American goldfinch is a granivore and adapted for the consumption of seed heads, with a conical beak to remove the seeds and agile feet to grip the stems of seedheads while feeding. It is a social bird and will gather in large flocks while feeding and migrating.
The American goldfinch is a small finch, 11–14 cm (4.3–5.5 in) long, with a wingspan of 19–22 cm (7.5–8.7 in). It weighs between 11–20 g (0.39–0.71 oz)
he American goldfinch undergoes a molt in the spring and autumn. It is the only cardueline finch to undergo a molt twice a year.
-Spinus tristis
The adult males are difficult to find. During the migration they are the first to leave on their road South. I felt fortunate to catch this one zipping around the backyard the last of August.
A member of the widespread jay group, and about the size of the jackdaw, it inhabits mixed woodland, particularly with oaks, and is a habitual acorn hoarder. In recent years, the bird has begun to migrate into urban areas, possibly as a result of continued erosion of its woodland habitat. Before humans began planting the trees commercially on a wide scale, Eurasian jays were the main source of movement and propagation for the European oak (Q. robur), each bird having the ability to spread more than a thousand acorns each year. Eurasian jays will also bury the acorns of other oak species, and have been cited by the National Trust as a major propagator of the largest population of Holm oak (Q. ilex) in Northern Europe, situated in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight.[5] Jays have been recorded carrying single acorns as far as 20 km, and are credited with the rapid northward spread of oaks following the last ice age.[6]
Migrating warblers and vireos are moving through the area from points north now, but trying to get good photos with a full tree leaf canopy is tough - especially on a dark rainy day, so even though I saw several different warblers this morning their photos were worthless. I did luck out and find this little red-eyed vireo before it could duck back behind all the leaves. Notice this vireo's rather stout bill with the hooked tip that helps tell it apart from similar-looking warblers.
Dark-eyed Junco looking for seeds on the lawn at our friends cottage on Kenogamissi Lake in the Township of Doyle in Northeastern Ontario Canada
Most (including all northern) populations are migratory. The peaks of migration are in October and March/April. The winter range extends across southern Canada and virtually all of the lower 48 states into northern Mexico. Juncos are found year-round throughout much of the West, Great Lakes region, Northeast, and Appalachians, though these areas experience complete or partial turnover of individuals. Adults, especially females, tend to migrate farther (and begin migration earlier) in eastern populations. For example, winter junco flocks are 20 percent female in Michigan and 72 percent female in Alabama. Western flocks are less segregated due to greater mixing of populations. Some montane populations exhibit altitudinal migration, with age and sex differential mirroring that of latitudinal migration. Female mortality is probably higher than that of males during migration due to the greater distance but lower in winter because of milder weather; thus, net survivorship and sex ratios on the breeding grounds are about equal. Migration is typically at night. Flock composition probably changes from day to day during migration; individuals apparently seek one another out for group foraging and roosting during the day and may depart en masse at night but do not stay together during flight.
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My favourite shot a Vireo from earlier this spring. This shot was taken through some low vegetation which is why parts of the bird are slightly blurred, I love the colours and level of detail in this shot!
La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.
A young male in transitional plumage to adult. Young males acquiring adult plumage are patched with red and yellow.
The only completely red bird in North America, the strawberry-colored male Summer Tanager is an eye-catching sight against the green leaves of the forest canopy. The mustard-yellow female is harder to spot, though both sexes have a very distinctive chuckling call note. Fairly common during the summer, these birds migrate as far as the middle of South America each winter.
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Found this group of Dowitchers catching a catnap on the local pond... a tranquil moment in an awesome morning !!
(I think these are Short-billed Dowitchers; please correct me if I’m wrong).
The name of this species could be misleading: it is 'short-billed' only by comparison to the Long-billed Dowitcher, and longer-billed than the average shorebird. Flocks of Short-billed Dowitchers wade in shallow water over coastal mudflats. They often seem rather tame, allowing a close approach when they are busy feeding.
Dowitchers Breed in three distinct regions, with distinct migratory routes and wintering areas. Alaska birds winter on Pacific Coast, central Canada birds migrate through Great Plains and along Atlantic Coast, eastern Canada birds stay east, winter as far south as Brazil.
Migrating and wintering Dowitchers favor coastal habitats, especially tidal flats on protected estuaries and bays, also lagoons, salt marshes, sometimes sandy beaches. Migrants also stop inland on freshwater ponds with muddy margins. Dowitchers breed in far north, mostly in open bogs, marshes, and edges of lakes within coniferous forest zone.
(Nikon Z8, 600/6.3, 1/1600 @ f/6.3, ISO 2000, edited to taste)
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.
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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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.
Pheucticus ludovicianus
(Rose-breasted Grosbeak / Degollado)
La Ceja, Colombia; 2.300 meters above sea level.
The rose-breasted grosbeak's breeding habitat is open deciduous woods across most of Canada and the northeastern USA. In particular the northern birds migrate south through the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, to winter from central-southern Mexico through Central America and the Caribbean to South America. The southern limit of its wintering range is not well known.
Wikipedia
Other than endless starlings and some red-winged blackbirds and Mallards, I haven't seen many migrating birds this fall. Happily this chipping sparrow stopped by long enough to pose for me. This is only the second time I've photographed this species here, and the first in the fall migration.
Some species info: www.inaturalist.org/taxa/9135-Spizella-passerina
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.
Six inches of wet snow fell the morning where we went looking for waterfowl and Sandhill Cranes. This couple was strutting a pure white field in the marsh. Made for a great high key scene with the natural minimalism landscape.
Yes - I nearly got stuck - but experienced in driving in snow.
Over several years I tried unsuccessfully to shoot (not literally) the thousands of migrating Greater Flamingos that frequent the Larnaca lake, the Aliki, from November to end February. Some flamingos may stay longer and even spend the summer here. Their numbers can reach tens of thousands spread over a group of lakes of just over 2.2 sq km total area.
This year there were not so many birds and they kept well away from the edges. In order to protect the delicate ecosystem, wading out into the salt lake is prohibited by patrolling guards who can issue on the spot fines of up to several thousand euros. I stayed well back from the edge.
This is one of the longest migrating raptors in the planet. The annual migration covers around 22,000 Km - 30,000 km / 14-18,000 miles starting from Siberia / Northern Mongolia to India and onward to South Africa. From the coasts of India, they fly over the sea to Africa covering around 3-4000 kms nonstop without touching the ground for 5-6 days.
The birds are making a stopover briefly at a hill station near Mumbai for a couple of weeks and 100's of bird lovers like me make a visit to watch them and get some pictures.
These falcons seem to prefer these wild lavender fields where they hunt for insects and caterpillars. They spend sometime in them walking around and looking for insects. Such fields are spread over the lakebed and the birds keep flying between them.
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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.
La Ceja, Colombia; Central Andes; 2.300 meters above sea level.
Piranga rubra (Summer tanager / Piranga abejera)
The only completely red bird in North America, the strawberry-colored male Summer Tanager is an eye-catching sight against the green leaves of the forest canopy. The mustard-yellow female is harder to spot, though both sexes have a very distinctive chuckling call note. Fairly common during the summer, these birds migrate as far as the middle of South America each winter.
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.
It's late December and hordes of photographers are currently converging on Big Sur's Pfeiffer beach from all over the world. As one puzzled visitor asked me last week, "What's with all the photographers? What are they shooting?" The answer, of course, is the light pouring through the Keyhole Arch which only happens from mid December through January each year.
Just out of curiosity, I headed back this year on solstice to see if the light was any better than two years ago but while I was there, I discovered that Pfeiffer offers far more for photographers than just the light in the Keyhole Arch. For starters, this photo isn't from the Keyhole. It's from another small archway just South of the keyhole. Most photographers completely ignore this spot since the multitudes are flocking the the larger archway to the North. Secondly, the TIDE is a huge factor in what type of light will make it through the arch and for how long. Even though I was there on December 21, the light we had two years ago was far superior to what we had this year as the high water level actually cut off the light through the arch with at least 10 minutes of golden sunlight left. And lastly, the entire area is an incredible location to shoot. In spite of the many opportunities on this stretch of coastline, I watched almost 50 photographers leave en masse as soon as the sun dipped below the horizon, migrating back to their cars in droves while there was still plenty of good light and sunset color in the sky. Why? The sunlight in the archway had disappeared, and to them, the show was now over.
For more tips on shooting the Keyhole arch AND the rest of Pfeiffer Beach, please feel free to check out
Tips For Shooting Big Sur’s Pfeiffer Beach
which is up today on The Resonant Landscape.
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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; like other woodpeckers, they have anatomical adaptations to manage the physical stresses from the hammering action. This species is similar to the Syrian woodpecker.
The black phoebe is a passerine bird in the tyrant-flycatcher family. It breeds from southwest Oregon and California south through Central and South America. It occurs year-round throughout most of its range and migrates less than the other birds in its genus, though its northern populations are partially migratory.
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?) :)
I just migrated to the "the land of the free" and, is currently, the #1 COVID-19 infected country...
This piece would be my first official hand self portrait here. Notice how try to comfort my own hands and the way they are positioned. It may seem like I'm praying...but not really...
I want nothing more right now but for this pandemic to end so I can start a, not new, but a different life here--> "where (they say) all dreams come true"
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