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This juvenile was enjoying the remains of a dead fish on Bronte Beach in Oakville, Ontario. This species is the world's largest gull. Here, on Lake Ontario, they are primarily a winter bird; they migrate up the St. Lawrence River from the east coast.
Some whooper swans do not migrate south at all. North of the Arctic Circle, winters can be very cold. This year too, often -30 degrees Celsius. The birds survive the cold well, but finding food can be more difficult. Here, a strong current keeps a small part of the lake ice-free throughout the winter.
Many Western Sandpipers showing up in the Migration.
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Like many sandpiper species, Western Sandpiper females have longer bills than males and are generally larger. In the populations of Western Sandpipers that winter farthest south, females outnumber males, while the reverse is true in the northern parts of the winter range.
In migration, the Western Sandpiper stages in huge, spectacular flocks, particularly along the Pacific coast at San Francisco Bay and in the Copper River Delta in Alaska. Estimates suggest that nearly the whole breeding population passes through the Copper River Delta during just a few weeks each spring.
Many of the Western Sandpipers that winter in Central America remain there for the first summer of their lives, rather than migrating north to breed. By contrast, birds of the same age that winter in the United States or Mexico usually attempt to return to the breeding grounds in their first spring.
Viewed it on the open water of Cornwall Canal. Some of these birds stay during winter but most migrate south. A view of one previous winter, Feb 2021, below....
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.
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!
A visitor in the yard from yesterday, part of a large group of warblers that migrated through with a storm system. Glendale, Missouri
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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Snow geese migrate thousands of miles each year between their breeding grounds in the Arctic and their wintering grounds in the United States and Mexico. This migration is a spectacular wildlife event that takes place in large, noisy flocks.
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The autumn has ended and early winter is here. Today I woke to a frosty morning. I do however have some pics left of the glorious autumn that has been. Hope you enjoy!
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A female American Redstart, one of the many migrating warblers that make a rest stop at Central Park in Manhattan, New York city.
American Redstarts are medium sized warblers with relatively wide, flat bill and fairly long, expressive tail. Females have yellow patches on the sides, wings, and tail, a gray head, and an olive back; while the adult males are mostly black with bright orange patches on sides, wings, and tail.
Red-Bellied Woodpecker (female)
10 inches in length. Barred black and white above, pale buff below and on face. The male and female are similar except that the male has a red crown and nape while the female has a red nape only. Their reddish patch on lower abdomen is seldom visible in the field.
Its habitat includes open and swampy woodlands. It also comes into parks during migration and feeders in winter.
They range from South Dakota east through the Great Lakes and into southern New England and south to the Gulf Coast and Florida. Although not a migratory bird, some of the northern most birds will sometimes migrate south for the winter.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
Bearded Reedling - Panurus Biarmicus
aka Bearded Tit. (F)
This species is a wetland specialist, breeding colonially in large reed beds by lakes or swamps. It eats reed aphids in summer, and reed seeds in winter, its digestive system changing to cope with the very different seasonal diets.
Often having to take grit in order to help digestion.
The bearded reedling is a species of temperate Europe and Asia. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate other than eruptive or cold weather movements. It is vulnerable to hard winters, which may kill many birds. The English population of about 500 pairs is largely confined to the south and east with a small population in Leighton Moss in north Lancashire. In Ireland a handful of pairs breed in County Wexford. The largest single population in Great Britain is to be found in the reedbeds at the mouth of the River Tay in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, where there may be in excess of 250 pairs.
Other Breeding areas include Norfolk and Somerset and Alkborough Flats, lincolnshire.
Population:
UK breeding:
630 pairs
Europe:
232 - 437,000 birds
European Bee Eater (Guêpier Européen) is a migrating specie spending winter in Africa, down to south Africa, and flying to Europe (up to France) to reproduce in spring and summer.
This shot has been taken in the late afternoon in Kruger National Park, in the Mpumalanga Province
These guys don't settle here and are probably heading to the south of Scotland and England. They settle for short times on the rowan trees to eat the berries.
The Yellow-belied Sapsucker breeds in the Boreal forests and can winter as far south as the Carribean and Costa Rica. They typically are found a bit further north, so I was happy to spot this one. My guess is this one is a juvenile migrating northward.
Wawanosh Wetlands, Sarnia, ON
These little beauties only travel through Oklahoma in spring and fall. This makes an encounter even more special. This bird likely bred in Canada or the Great Lakes region and has traveled, mostly a night, hundreds of miles to Oklahoma. But it still has hundreds of miles left on its journey to its winter home in Mexico.
Our beautiful world, pass it on.
The great tit (Parus major) is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. It is a widespread and common species throughout Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and east across the Palearctic to the Amur River, south to parts of North Africa where it is generally resident in any sort of woodland; most great tits do not migrate except in extremely harsh winters. Until 2005 this species was lumped with numerous other subspecies. DNA studies have shown these other subspecies to be distinctive from the great tit and these have now been separated as two distinct species, the cinereous tit of southern Asia, and the Japanese tit of East Asia. The great tit remains the most widespread species in the genus Parus.
Sandhill cranes are moving north through Indiana--they are a sight and sound I never tire of experiencing.
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“In this quiet corner, the best wild flowers grow, and the first peepers are heard in the spring, even before the snow melts. Here, owls call from the treetops in the early morning, and the irreverent crows hold their noisy conventions. Here, the mother deer has her fawn, and the migrating geese come to rest. It is here that the fox is safe from the hunters.”
― Alice Provensen
Just showing the migrating trumpeter swans in the other photos way out on the frozen lake on a frigid afternoon. Their long shadows caught my eye.
Sorry for so many photos, just catching up on saving a few recent ones while I can. Tried several days ago but couldn't post. Bitter cold here affecting internet at times so haven't been on Flickr. -12°F this morning. Rolling power blackouts by power companies to meet demand across 17 Midwest states. Crazy weather!
Red-winged Blackbirds. Probably about 25 or 30 here, but there are flocks of hundreds of them. Grackles also travel with them.
Last year, the female blackbirds visited the feeders before the males did. The male grackles were last. I never saw a female grackle.
Adult male Turkestan (Red-tailed) Shrike enjoying the golden hour morning sunshine on the Suffolk coast. It should be migrating south from central Asia at this time of year.
it is in prime condition and feeding well on various bugs, wasps and bees.
It was pretty special to get to the coast just before dawn and watch the sun rise from the sea with virtually no clouds in the sky and no wind.
Fingers crossed for this stunning bird.