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This Northern Waterthrush continues in a small park in midtown manhattan. Odd bird to see in November. #birding #bird #fallmigration
Photographed 24 September 2022, Morning Flight, Gooseberry Neck, Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts
Please attribute to Lorie Shaull if used elsewhere.
This is Crane #W7-17, a female Whooping Crane, born at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in June 2017.
More info about her here: www.bringbackthecranes.org/class-of-2017/#W7-17
By early September the leaves have started to die here, but it is easy to identify this Yellow-rumped Warbler if one can get a rear view. The first to arrive and the last to leave, most of these warblers will be gone within the next couple of days. I think this one may be an adult male in winter plumage as the females and juveniles are usually paler and more brownish.
The leaves in the foreground are brown and if one looks carefully, the intricate patterns on the lower-left leaf can be seen, indicating it hosted the tiny larvae of the leaf-miner moth. These larvae excavate intricate labyrinth-like patterns on the leaves of entire Aspen and Cottonwood forests. Although the leaves don't immediately die, they become quite dull looking relatively early in the summer and turn brown very quickly. No permanent harm is done to the trees and I suspect the larvae and the moths are a vital and abundant source of insect protein for many bird species.
Photographed 24 September 2022, Morning Flight, Gooseberry Neck, Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts
This small island on the St. Lawrence River is the site of a breeding colony of Cormorants. The sheer numbers of birds has nearly collapsed the silver maples. The Cormorants have left for warmer climates. They will return to their large stick nests in the spring. The question is, how many trees will still be standing when they return?
As seen from the canoe on Lake St. Lawrence.
White-throated Sparrow, Died in downtown Washington D.C. in the fall or spring of 2012 from striking a building at night. Retrieved by the Lights out DC program
Parula americana
Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada
August 2014
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Oh My today was Kinglet day today, mostly golden crowned but a couple of rubies too......so busy didn't have a chance to take many pics, but I got a couple and I just love the cuteness of this one
Looks like there are going to be some birds on the backside of the forecasted rain and cold front. You never know, with good migration forecast along with rain, there is always the possibility of some fallouts.
Cochran Shoals Unit of Chattahoochee NRA. Atlanta, Georgia.
This bird has eluded me several times in my quest to photograph it. They are difficult to pick out of the canopy with binoculars let alone get a long lens on them. Even though they are large birds they are not constantly moving like most warblers so they can be difficult to spot. This shot shows the yellow orbital ring nicely, along with the characteristic yellow on both the upper and lower bill, and the large white tips on the black tail feathers. These features help distinguish it from the smaller Black-billed Cuckoo which is less commonly seen in Georgia, and from the Mangrove Cuckoo whose usual range is limited to the southern half of Florida.
One other prominent feature of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo is the bright rufous primaries not seen on the shot above but seen on the shot below:
Swamp sparrow, Washington D.C., Fall or spring 2012, died striking building downtown, collected by lightsoutdc with permits
I'm enjoying all the hummingbirds that have stopped by during their migration south. I'm facinated by the tiny delicate tailfeathers on this little guy.