Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. Hatching Year Male in the Rear adult male in front.

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Taken at Great Hollow Lake

Monroe, CT

Wharf Lane

Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts

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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

Yard birds

Sussex County, NJ

Photographed 24 August 2013, Gooseberry Neck, Westport, Massachusetts

First fall arrival. He was way up there, and didn't hang around. Maybe tomorrow will be better.

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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

Sandhill Cranes

Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area

October 2014

Yard birds

Sussex County, NJ

Wharf Lane

Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts

I couldn't believe how many there were all over the ground in Bill Baggs, Key Biscayne, during the recent migration. I wish I would have spent more time trying to get an open shot of this bird, but there were new species that were harder to spot, so I spent the majority of my time looking for them in between the raindrops. I was just as soaked as all the leaves are in this image.....but it was well worth it!

Long-billed Dowitchers at Lee Metcalf NWR during Fall migration (somewhat outside of 'normal' migration route)

Stevensville, MT

Jacobsburg SP, Northampton Co., PA, 9/7/15

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October Big Day

Yard birds

Sussex County, NJ

Yesterday, I was looking for whatever the crows were harassing. This Merlin rocketed over the bushes in front of me, banked around me, and dropped down below the bushes behind me. I didn’t even try to get a shot. The best part of my day - full stop.

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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

Yellow Warbler. A regular visitor during Fall migration.

Archilochus colubris

Early fall migration with males dominating

In Fall Migration

HY Male with Brugmansia in the background

The crane is the oldest living bird species. It has inhabited the earth for about sixty million years!

View On Black

Sandhill cranes and Canadian geese gather every fall in the farm fields in front of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. Females or Hatching Year Males

Photographed 24 August 2013, Gooseberry Neck, Westport, Massachusetts

Presque Isle State Park, Erie County Pennsylvania

Hoydens Hill

Fairfield, CT

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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

Red Necked Phalarope. Moorman Swine Farm, Champaign, Illinois USA

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Northern parula at the main drip, Laffite's Cove, Galveston Island, Texas.

Pymatuning State Park, Crawford County PA

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An adult male Prairie Warbler makes it's way south during the early part of the fall migration. Photographed at Lake Geneva in Keystone Heights, Florida.

Golden Hour

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

It was quite dark by the time I arrived, but there were hummingbirds as far as the eye could see.