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This was my first time photographing a Killdeer and I had the hardest time getting it to turn and look at me but persistence paid off in the end. It looks a lot like the Three-banded plover that I photographed in Kruger which isn't surprising I guess since they are both plovers. Hinterland Who's Who: "Killdeer migration is gradual and not spectacular as it is with some bird species. Killdeer reach southern Canada as early as mid-March, about the same time as the returning robins. They travel by both day and night, and sometimes their calls may be heard overhead on moonlit nights in the spring. There is evidence that some Killdeer make the flight northward individually, particularly early in the season. It is then that a single bird will often be found where snow has melted early or where a spring or stream has kept the ground soft enough for it to probe with its bill for food. As the days pass, more Killdeer arrive. Some may begin to nest in southern Canada while other migrants continue to pass through on their way further north".
a swarm of Semipalamted Sandpipers flies over the waters of the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick. As high tide approaches the birds have to take to the air to find a safe place to land and wait for the waters to recede in order to get to their food source in the mudflats of the bay. This is their annual stopover point each summer before making a 3-4 day non-stop flight to South America-DSC_5156
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Sandhill cranes below and geese above showcase a wonderful birding morning in the Pacific Northwest.
I will be traveling the next couple of weeks, so it may be a while before I can review and comment.
Veille du retour en France.
Ce Cardinal m'a beaucoup amusé à être constamment à repousser le rival, son image dans le rétroviseur.
Last day before the return to France.This Cardinal amused me a lot by being constantly pushing the rival, his image in the rearview mirror.
Another simple roadside shot from this great chase more than a dozen years ago that's never been seen before.
Three SD70MACs lead a 70 car unit coal train (with three more on the) as it snakes along the icy tidal waters of Turnagain Arm. The train is crossing Bird Creek at MP 86.6 on an ancient hand me down "temporary" WWII era rivited pony truss bridge. Alas this classic structure is on borrowed time, and is finally scheduled to be replaced this year. You can read all about the project here: www.alaskarailroad.com/sites/default/files/Communications...
Use of six units set up in DP mode precludes this coal train train from having to double the hill at Grandview which features 3% grades and 14 degree curves and is one of the most challenging and treacherous avalanche prone stretch of railroad. Alas, as those of you have read here with captions on other photos, a decade later big export coal trains are but a memory in the Last Frontier....At least we have photos like this to look back on in wonderment to those halcyon days we thought would never end.
And one other thing I'd like to note about this photo. Look closely above the horizon line of the water and you can see the glacier covered peaks of the mighty Alaska Range rising in excess of 11,000 ft. The closest are some 90 miles away on the far west wide of Cook Inlet and it always amazed me when they were out and visible.
Bird (Municipality of Anchorage), Alaska
Saturday November 14, 2009
Bird City is located in a wetland on an island in the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge north of Rockport, Texas. In search of the elusive Whooping Crane by boat, we came upon this neighborhood of the city, which contains White Pelicans, Great Egrets, Snowy Egrets, Ibis, Roseate Spoonbills, a duck or two and a few black grackles, but no Whoopers.
This is what wikipedia says: Strelitzia /strɛˈlɪtsiə/[3] is a genus of five species of perennial plants, native to South Africa. It belongs to the plant family Strelitziaceae.[4] A common name of the genus is bird of paradise flower/plant, because of a resemblance of its flowers to birds-of-paradise.
This is the Strelitzia reginae.