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One from the archives. I know I will not be the only one looking forward to their return. Taken at St Aidens.
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One from the archives. Taken at Swillington/St Aidens. Hoping to get some new ones this coming season.
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The black-necked stilt ( Himantopus mexicanus) is a locally abundant shorebird of American wetlands and coastlines.
"Face Off"
Black-necked Stilt
Photograph captured with a Canon EOS 1DXII camera and Canon 600mm f/4 IS II lens paired with a 1.4x extender at 840mm
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Red-necked Phalaropes breed in tundra and tundra-forest transition zones in North America. (Atlas of Breeding Birds of Alberta)
Here in central Alberta, we see them in late May and early June often in very large flocks mixed with other northern-bound shorebirds. I had good luck to get close to a small group as they fed and rested on their way farther north.
Murray Marsh. Sturgeon County, Alberta.
Added to my Canada 150 Album.
Last Thursday afternoon was another good day to get out. I was going for a walk but first I had to check out the Burnsmead to Bankside road. I was not disappointed to find this beautiful male Ring-necked Pheasant. He was enjoying the sun and even gave himself a dust bath.
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The Ring-necked Pheasant is not the smartest bird in the wild, it is amazing that they have not all been killed off by traffic. I had to stop twice to let this bird run back and forth on the road. Any normal vehicle would have run it down. Fortunately I managed to herd it across the road into a blueberry field.
Yellow-necked Spurfowl, Taita Hills - Kenya
Yellow-necked Spurfowl is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae and is found in Eastern Africa.
Last shot from our long-distance trip in May of '24. Black-necked Stilts are common at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge where they are nesting in May.
My 2024 recap will continue tomorrow with an August trip for some photo ops with my favorite wildlife subject. I'm sure no one can guess what that might be.
For me, Ring-necked Pheasants haven't been hard to find, but they sure have been hard to photograph. They're usually very skittish and quickly disappear before I can even raise the camera to my eye.
So this one was quite a surprise...in two ways. First, it wasn't skittish at all and second, it was foraging along the edge of a large pool in Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. Before this, I'd only seen them in open grassy or agricultural fields.
Podiceps nigricollis
Pair formation in the black-necked grebe usually starts during pauses in the migration to the breeding grounds, although it occasionally occurs before, in wintering pairs. This pair formation continues after this grebe has arrived to its breeding grounds. Courtship occurs when it arrives at the breeding lake. The displays are performed in the middle of the lake. There is no territory involved in courting; individuals used the whole area of the lake. When advertising for a mate, a black-necked grebe will approach other black-necked grebes with its body fluffed out and its neck erect.
White-necked Heron
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When I first spied this bird it was among the grass and reeds in the pond.
I didn't want to advance on it, as it would have put it to flight.
What to do?
As it turned out, another birder approached from the other side of the pond, and the bird jumped on to the log to survey its options.
Then, as these things go, the other's closer approach put the bird to wing.
The Neck is a narrow strip of land that links North and South Bruny Island. On the eastern side is the Tasman Sea which is open to the vagaries of the ocean currents and winds. On the western side is the smooth waters of the D'Entrecasteaux Channel. It separates Bruny Island from the Tasmanian mainland.
Both photos here were taken with the Nikon D850.
This is a ring-necked duck (drake), common here in the winter. And you can actually kinda-sorta see the chestnut ring around his neck. It's typically not very visible, but in just the right light at just the right angle, it shows up.
The manner in which cattle interact is nothing shy of fascinating, when you stop to take a real look.
White-necked Heron, Ardea pacifica
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Third day now and I've no access to my Flickr Stream. Not even sure this will post, but I'm going to use an external uploader just in case.
It seems my stream is now cross-linked to someone elses account and all I get it their stream and followers.
So if I haven't commented on your work, its because I've not SEEN IT!
Repeated requests to Flickr have not been responded to, and I suppose they go to the dogdy account.
So, until further notice, this will, if it gets through be my last post for the foreseeable future.
If it can't be solved. So.
I'll start a new account in the new year. But won't be paying Pro Subs.
In the meantime Thanks for all your support and super photos of your view of the world
The local duck pond is finally free of ice! Here's one of today's favourites a Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris)
Red-necked Avocet
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Not only do they sweep the water with their bill, they can sweep in on a tight turn.
The mass fly-up of Snow Geese shot I posted yesterday was taken at Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge, a vital wetland for many migratory birds and home to many species of birds, reptiles and mammals.
That shot ended my series of multiple wildlife subjects and begins a series of birds in wetlands, highlighting the importance of those habitats.
This Black-necked Stilt was photographed in Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area. Occupying approximately 41,000 acres in central Kansas, it is the largest wetland in the interior United States. The Bottoms is a critical stopping point on the Central Flyway for millions of birds which migrate through the region annually.
Ring-necked Pheasants stride across open fields and weedy roadsides in the U.S. and southern Canada. Males sport iridescent copper-and-gold plumage, a red face, and a crisp white collar; their rooster-like crowing can be heard from up to a mile away.
a rare visitor to the fish ponds, only second time they have been there in eight years.
Maslog, Negros Island, Philippines
This is not a bird I see often and this one was determined I would not see it's neck stretched out and it's head untucked. Most of the photos I got were "artistic" One of the few where even the eye was visible, but still a neat shot.
Red-necked Grebe pair
I have quite a few images of Red-necked Grebe pairs over the years from Nome. It's been fun going back through them all.
White-necked jacobins are year-round residents from southern Mexico through Central America and into northern South America, extending as far south as Peru, northern Bolivia and northern Brazil. They are absent from the highest mountain regions and are less common in the densest rainforests.
They can be aggressive at feeders and will chase competitors away from preferred flowers and perches as well, fanning their tails to show dominance.
The male Ring-necked Duck is a sharply marked bird of gleaming black, gray, and white. Females are rich brown with a delicate face pattern. At distance, look for this species’ distinctive, peaked head to help you identify it. Even though this species dives for its food, you can find it in shallow wetlands such as beaver swamps, ponds, and bays. Of all the diving duck species, the Ring-necked Duck is most likely to drop into small ponds during migration.