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EINP, AB, Canada
Starting to upload again, working from some of the older photos from late July early August.
Correct me if I'm wrong with the ID's of any of these. I think the featured photo is a Baird's with the wing tip longer than the tail. Not sure about the ones below.
Early morning and the Monarchs are grabbing a quick snack, and then off to Mexico they go. Watched scores of Monarchs taking flight this morning from the fields along Halls Road.
Green Cay Wetlands, Boynton Beach, FL
Another lifer...
One of the "southeastern" warblers, the Yellow-throated Warbler is a bird of tall trees. It nests and forages high in the canopy of swamp and pine forests.
This statement sure is true. I was looking and pointing my lens straight up to get this. My neck still hurts just thinking about it... LOL
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TGIF and HFF!
I've never seen this bird before, gosh, doesn't it have lovely markings? It is a Lapland Longspur in non-breeding plumage. If you look closely, the beak is pretty green as it was running through the grasses to glean seeds at what seemed to be a billion miles an hour. (This is a huge crop). Lapland Longspurs breed in the Arctic tundra then migrate south to open habitats of the US and a few places in Southern Canada.
Image taken near the Grindstone Harbour on September 9, 2013 with a Canon Rebel XSi and Canon 85-250mm IS lens.
f/7.1 ISO400 SS1600 250mm Manual
Thanks a million for viewing this image and leaving me a comment! I hope you get out with your cameras on the weekend. I hope to get out too, but it remains dreary and its snowing. My fingers are twitching! )0:
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Discovered one last photo from my trip to the Dallas Arboretum that I had overlooked. There were migrating monarchs all over the flowers there.
Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
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Blue-winged and Magnolia Warblers, apparently displeased with having to share the same tree branch. Jacobsburg SP, Northampton Co., PA, 9/7/15
Photographed 15 September 2018, Smith Point Hawk Watch, Candy Cain Abshier WMA, Smith Point, Chambers County, Texas
Green Cay Wetlands, Boynton Beach, FL
Here are three shots (I have plenty more) of the Prothonotary Warbler we saw at Green Cay. Like the Worm-eating Warbler it was enjoying the berries, but also munched on bugs. At least it looks like it.
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And Flickr is really ruining our shots with its crazy sharpening. Also, has anyone with a really large, high-res monitor noticed this? The shot when viewed on my monitor at work appears larger than what I actually uploaded. Hmm...
In any case, here's the original as uploaded with no sharpening.
The Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family. It is the only member of the genus Protonotaria.
The Prothonotary Warbler is ~ 5 in long and weighs 0.4 oz. It has an olive back with blue-grey wings and tail, yellow underparts, a relatively long pointed bill and black legs. The adult male has a bright orange-yellow head; females and immature birds are duller and have a yellow head. In flight from below, the short, wide tail has a distinctive two-toned pattern that is white at the base and dark at the tip.
It breeds in hardwood Swamps in extreme southeastern Ontario and eastern United States. It is the only eastern warbler that nests in natural or artificial cavities, sometimes using old Downy Woodpecker holes. The male often builds several incomplete, unused nests in his territory; the female builds the real nest. It lays 3-7 eggs. It winters in the West Indies, Central America and northern South America.
The preferred foraging habitat is dense, woody streams, where the Prothonotary Warbler forages actively in low foliage, mainly for Insects and snails.
These birds are declining in numbers due to loss of habitat. They are also parasitized by the Brown-headed Cowbird or out-competed for nest sites by the House Wren. It is listed as Endangered in Canada.
This bird was named after officials in the Roman Catholic Church known as the protonotarii, who wore golden robes. It was once known as the Golden Swamp Warbler (from Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia).
Just like a little pie bird, this hummer has stopped at the feeder on his way south.
And, like so many before him he is overheated from the Searing Summer Sun.
Here , we see him sitting on an oak twig, feathers at full puff position and beak blowing pie steam.
At least we haven't had any fainters yet.
(If you think he is hard to find in this shot, imagine trying to find him on a camera LCD screen. Well, Bonnie caught him and I did what I could to make him stand out without too much stomping.)
Happy Flight Friday
I kept hearing a rustle from under the thick vegetation..she finally came out for an all too brief moment!!
This is the same Fruiting Fig Tree....I think this male was so stuffed it took a little break!
(Explore #423, 8 November 2011)
Females are gray & yellow. Males are black & orange. Redstarts use the trick of flashing their colors by rapidly fanning out the tailfeathers. Supposedly this startles insects and flushes them out of vegetation so the birds can more easily catch them.
Female American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla)
Garland, Tx
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