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Saw this male monarch in my yard 3 days ago, but haven't seen any more since then.
I think butterfly season might be coming to a close for this season at Cat Hill Farm.
Migrating Semipalmated Sandpiper feeding on the beach as Stone Harbor Point
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Wetlands of Cape May are a major rest stop on the migration of the monarchs. These colorful, fragile-looking butterflies migrate thousands of miles from all over the Eastern North America to wintering sites in central Mexico. Prevailing winds make the Delaware Bay a major obstacle on their way. They come to Cape May, the southernmost point of New Jersey, to wait for the wind that would carry them across the bay, and to eat and gain strength in the meantime. This year, apparently, they did not have a lot of butterflies there (and I also did not make it there this year). But generally, they are plentiful and arrive in big waves over a period of several weeks. There is an annual effort by conservationists at Cape May to tag them and help track the migration.
Migrating butterflies resting after crossing Lake Erie
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Filmic Piano: Migrating Birds
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Liebe Freunde, von der Reise bin ich zurückgekehrt mit Covid-19 und stehe nun erstmal unter Quarantäne.
Dear friends, I returned from the trip with Covid-19 and am now under quarantine.
With the cooler weather, I am going through some of my pictures from this spring. Always exciting to find the male Summer Tanager all decked out and looking for a bride.
Medium-sized, rather nondescript raptor with overall dark plumage. Varies considerably across range, but always note tail fork (can disappear when tail is fully open), and short head and neck. Juvenile averages paler and more contrastingly-marked. Flight style buoyant, gliding and changing direction with ease. Frequently forages in urban areas, rubbish dumps, aquatic habitats, and grassland, but usually avoids heavily forested areas. Sometimes solitary, but also gathers in large flocks on migration and at good feeding areas. eBird
Commissioned by Govan Council as a depiction of migrating birds & shows their willingness to set-up roots & stay in the Govan area.Part of the GSW3 project, artist unknown
"When something bad happens, you have three choices!
You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can
let it strengthen you!" A Dr. Seuss quote..
I guess the name of these migrating birds is California Gull not California Seagull. They come to the California coast for the winter. Yes, I blinded myself taking the photo! haha ....but I like the flares...there were several huge flocks flying by over the farmland.
Migrating Tundra Swans stopping over at Middle Creek WMA in Lancaster County, PA.
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The older I get the more appreciative I am that my folks settled here in the Northeast when they migrated from the Caribbean particularly because each year I marvel the beauty of the fact the area has four full seasons and in my case the photographic/artistic opportunities the seasons provide. My kids, dogs and I had to relocate in mid-summer last year in 2015. The location that we ended up, a few miles west of where we were living for over 20 years is about a city block away from 121 acre Brookdale Park which is part of the Essex County Park System which incidentally is home to America’s first park system. The dogs and I walk there every morning daily and sometimes at night as well. The current park was actually designed by famous Olmsted Brothers Firm completed in 1937.
However before white man, specifically the Dutch settled here in 1600’s, what today is called Brookdale Park was a meeting or gathering place for the Lenni Lenape Indians whose tribes gathered at the Indian Spring located near where the parks current Rose Garden is. The Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians were the indigenous tribes of this area which they called Lenapehoking and encompassed Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and South East New York, so yes, they were the sellers of Manhattan Island. Through the park is a Lenape Trail that marked that actually part of a statewide 140 mile Lenape trail that goes from the Hudson River to the Delaware River.
Once again in 2015 like 2014, abnormally warm fall kept the leaves on the trees long again though the shortening of days does its work on deciduous trees as well so this year I’ve been able to capture a variety of fall foliage here at the old Lenape gathering place which I will be hopefully sharing on my photostream which I took most of the time while walking my doggies. For this particular image, the sunlight through the leaves created a wonderful kaleidoscope canopy over the also colorful carpeting of leaves that’s already down.
Taken with Olympus TG-850, hand held processed in Adobe Lightroom.
Spring is around the corner, this is one of my first Swan shots over Little Bow Provincial Park, Alberta.
European Starlings getting ready to migrate as they fly in large flocks and gather together before the big day.
Have not been seeing The Orchard Orioles around home as much. Good to see a few away from the feeders. My guess is some are nesting or have moved North. This male was so beautiful.
On the shores of Lake Erie at Rock Point Prov. Pk. one of a few migrating Monarch butterflies we saw this day. Feeding on a wild Aster, it did not stay too long and just moved on.
One of my favorite birds, the Hermit Thrush, is migrating through The Poconos currently.
This one was photographed in the yard yesterday morning, and was just giving its "chuck" call.
In the coming months their ethereal songs will be resonating throughout the forests around my woodland home.
Hermit Thrush (Catharus guttatus)
Adult
Family: Thrushes
Price Twp--JMC Pocono Property
Monroe County, PA
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It has been a great season to catch migrating Bald Eagles. This one managed to turn at the right time to catch the good light.
These Lesser Sandhill Cranes, Grus canadensis canadensis are on their northward migration to Alaska. Some of them stop over in the West Richland area annually. I think most of them spent the winter in Central California. These are the early arrivals that don't want to miss the Othello Sandhill Crane Festival (March 24-26) held in their honor every year. According the the Othello Sandhill Crane Festival website these birds are Lesser Sandhill Cranes. IMG_3961
While photographing the dramatic waves on Diamond Beach, Iceland, it was a thrill hear honking sounds and to look up and see a V formation of migrating Whooping swans (Cygnus cygnus) overhead. They return to Iceland in the spring, migrating from Europe.
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With the white patch behind the eye and a not so bright rufous/orange area along her chest/belly are the dominant markings. As a migrator, I'm thinking she hasn't been on the flyway for very long as she's nice and plump.
It's unusual to see White Pelicans more than a couple hundred miles east of the Mississippi. I counted around 200 at this location, a sight to behold when they're all airborne.
A migrating male Scarlet Tanager resting briefly high in the canopy of a tree above my garden.
Fairly common migrant and rare summer resident.
It has been many years since I have seen an Osprey. She appeared at the neighbors lake after being irritated by a murder of crow. I watched her for quite some time hoping she would move closer and provide me with a closer capture and maybe a fishing event. She made a loop quite some distance from me and departed the area! While not the capture I was hoping for, this is my first osprey! Have a wonderful day and thank you for your visit!
I had no idea this was happening, I went to the Taylor Creek Marsh on the south shore of Lake Tahoe to look for fall color. And I wondered why it was so crowded! Yeah, thousands of bright red migrating salmon were visible in the creek.
Rainbow Trail, Taylor Creek. October 7, 2019.
Blue wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus) running at sunrise during the Great Migration with Lake Ndutu in the background, Serengeti, Tanzania
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