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Am letzten Wochenende waren wir auf "Kranichjagd" im Diepholzer Moor und konnten viele dieser wunderschönen Vögel beobachten, wenn auch nur aus weiter Ferne, da sie wirklich extrem scheu sind. An einem Morgen hatten wir dichten Nebel - bei schlechter Sicht waren die Vögel des Glücks etwas entspannter und uns gelangen tolle Nebelfotos.
Last weekend we went "crane hunting" and were able to observe many of these beautiful birds, albeit only from a far distance as they are extremely shy. One morning we had thick fog with poor visibility and the birds were a bit more relaxed. So we managed to get some great foggy photos.
At a first glance, I thought it was just another Northern Cardinal at a distance. When I put my binoculars on I realized that that was a Summer Tanager. Nice to see a Summer Tanager with its best red feathers still on!
Photographed 24 September 2022, Morning Flight, Gooseberry Neck, Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts
(Setophaga coronata) -- Yellow-rumped Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warblers are impressive in the sheer numbers with which they flood the continent each fall. Shrubs and trees fill with the streaky brown-and-yellow birds and their distinctive, sharp chips. Though the color palette is subdued all winter, you owe it to yourself to seek these birds out on their spring migration or on their breeding grounds. Spring molt brings a transformation, leaving them a dazzling mix of bright yellow, charcoal gray and black, and bold white.
Read more at: www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow-rumped_Warbler/overview
Looking for a place to land, feed and rest overnight in midst of their migration. There are many glorious sounds in nature we get to enjoy. Tundra Swans' cooing and whistling is one of them ❤️
This being a juvenile bird as identified by the very prominent yellowish wingbars. Found in Aktau, at the beach of the Caspian Sea in one of several areas with tall reed, all filled with migrating songbirds.
I dropped by Downsview Park and was pleasantly surprised to see 12 different species of warblers in one little corner of the park, I am sure I missed a few. Here's a montage of 10 of them, the two missing are Yellow-rumped and Palm warbler, just couldn't fit them all. Their southward migration is well underway, I wish them good luck on their long journey. All these photos were taken by standing in one place, didn't have to go look for them.
Top Row (L to R): Northern Parula, Black-throated Green, Blackpoll
Middle Row: Cape May, Blackburnian, Nashville, Magnolia
Bottom Row: Black-throated Blue, Tennessee and Bay-breasted.
This time of the year they aren't as colorful as they were during their inward journey in the Spring, but nature compensates by providing colorful settings.
This is the last of the Dotterel series I wanted to share - and as the weather has changed in Southeastern Germany, these Eurasian Dotterels are moving on to the warmer regions just south of the Mediterranean Sea. Hope to see you again next year!
One of a couple of Blackburnian Warblers I photographed at Plantation Preserve recently.
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It often takes me quite a bit of time to be sure about the species of reed warblers in the Acrocephalus genus, as they look quite alike to my still insufficiently trained eye. Here I am now at about 90% that it is a Paddyfield warbler (Acrocephalus agricola), due to the dark tip of the lower mandible, the prominent supercilium with its dark borders, the short primary projection and the high contrast on the tertials. But I can be wrong. Found this little Gem at the beach of Aktau, at the Caspian Lake in Kazakhstan, which was full of migrating songbirds and rails in mid September.
This Warbler species, seen here a few weeks ago bulking up for the southbound fall migration, is now a common and plentiful presence in the Ottawa area during spring and fall migrations. It seems to me, purely anecdotally, that they are more common, especially in fall, than they were fifteen years ago.
In this are they really seem to prefer coniferous trees for hunting insects, and they can come down quite low and more or less indifferently to human presence, at least in my experience. They have a relentless hunger for small insects, and pore through the pine and spruce. This bird is examining the underside of branches for more food, and had popped out right in front of me about head high.
In one of those dual-purpose wonders of nature, Cape May Warblers have a tongue that is especially designed for the extraction of food from flowers. On their winter resting grounds in the Caribbean this will come in handier than it does in Ottawa in late summer.
Every year, large flocks of cranes migrate through my neighborhood. The Diepholzer Moorniederung is an important resting place for thousands of these magnificent birds – a must-see in late October or early November. Here, I snapped a picture of a small family (the young one is in the middle with the brownish head) taking off from a field where they can often be found foraging during the day.
This is definitely one of the species that sparked my interest in birding and bird photography. I first took pictures of cranes flying overhead many years ago, then started going out to see them up close on the fields, and so on. It’s an absolute joy to witness their return every year.
Goldenstedter Moor, Lower Saxony, Germany
These wading birds are mostly seen during migration when they pass between nesting grounds in the mosquito-ridden bogs of boreal Canada and their wintering grounds on marshes of very southern USA and Mexico. A very surprising fact of the Greater Yellowlegs is that although they are typically associated with wetlands, on their breeding grounds they perch atop trees!
I had incredible time witnessing THOUSANDS of Sandhill Cranes migrating and visibly exhaustingly arriving to Horicon Marsh, WI, tonight to roost overnight. Then...there was this little traveler minding his own business in the setting sun!
Hello there,
As luck would have it, a juvenile Harris's Sparrow suddenly landed on the log which had been laced with seeds by another park visitor. As it matures, the head and breast feathers will fill in so the speckled look will disappear.
Harris's Sparrow is a bird of the central plains of North America. It breeds in the scrub-tundra of north-central Canada and winters in the Great Plains of the United States. If I am very lucky, I will spot them during spring or fall migration.
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Woodcock Creek Dam, Crawford County, PA. A pipit grabs a tasty morsel on a cold fall afternoon. Thanks for looking and any comments or feedback.
Woodcock Creek Dam, Crawford County, PA. A fall plumage bird showing just a hint of chestnut color on its flanks. Thanks for looking and your comments or feedback.
Ovenbirds look very similar no matter the sex, the age, or the season but there are subtle differences between Spring and Fall. This fall bird shows the orange crown crest is partially obscured by olive feathering. There is some buff in the flanks. The tertials (smaller flight feathers closest to the back of the bird) have a rusty appearance. All of this is best seen in large.
Photographed 19 November 2023, Westborough Wildlife Management Area, Westborough, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Pallid Harriers breed from the northern shores of the Black Sea all the way to Lake Baikal and from their breeding grounds most of them migrate to Sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian subcontinent, with few staying closer to the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. They are rare visitors to Central Europe too, on their way to their wintering grounds.
In the Semi-desert of Mangghystau we saw many of them migrating and hunting Chukars and smaller birds as well as mammals especially in the mornings when their prey came close to a water hole.
While the english name Pallid Harrier is a reference to the pale look of the adult male, the German name translates as Steppe Harrier, referencing the habitat in which they are often found. The bird in the picture is a juvenile and the prominent distinctive feature vs the similar looking juvenile Montagu‘s Harrier is the just visible cream-white collar, which Montagu‘s lack.
Such sweet little birds! I've seen a lot of recent posts of these cuties, must be migration time for them. Safe travels!
The White-throated Sparrow is an infrequent visitor to the prairie, stopping occasionally at feeders during its migratory journey. At Last Mountain Lake, I saw my first ever of this species NOT at a feeder. This is a tan-striped morph: the stripe behind the yellow supraloral spot isn't white, as in all the others I've seen. To this, add the somewhat faded fall plumage that had me wondering if this might be a juvenile. But no, I don't think so. And it doesn't matter. I was happy with the close photo op. I had just spent two hours in a blind, and was packing my gear away when I noticed that I was being watched from a nearby branch - an unexpected bonus on a chilly morning!
This species is primarily a woodland dweller, its western breeding range starting where the prairie grades into boreal forest north of Saskatoon. Any sighting on the prairie is noteworthy. Photographed at Last Mountain Lake National Wildlife Area, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2020 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Woodcock, Crawford County, PA. I observed this migratory warbler feasting on insect larvae. Thanks for looking and your comments or feedback.
These birds breed in the steppes and salt marshes of Central Asia, including the northern shores of the Caspian Sea or Lake. Found it just 100km south of its breeding range, where some of these gulls overwinter (although most of them migrate further south to the Indian subcontinent). Rare vagrants in Western Europe.