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Female. Top of Kennesaw Mountain right before upper parking lot. Was part of a good flock.
See first season Blackburnian female below. Same flock. I think they are different birds rather than varied lighting on the same bird. Yet with a good flock everything is happening so quick.
Also see a comparison view of the 2nd female Cerulean I posted recently that had me stumped as to it's ID. Nice to see it side by side with an immature Blackburnian below. Both the Blackburnians and the Cerulean were photographed on different days amazingly within just 10 yards of each other. I have been having so much fun this August with these migrant warblers.
Notice the auricular patch surrounded by yellow, the yellowish throat with streaking, the bit of yellow on the forehead next to the beak, and finally a unique attribute to Blackburnians in general-streaking on the back .
This Red Knot juvenile was photographed mid-morning at Shoop Golf Course on Lake Michigan in Racine County, WI on Sep 2, 2011
My third rare bird sighting. This was the first one officially documented in Dallas County. It flew into a sand bar in front of me, joining a bunch of killdeer and least sandpipers. A lifer for me and my photo of it was entered into the Texas Bird Image Archive which can be found here: www.texasbirdimages.com/home/region-2/long-billed-dowitch...
Juvenile Long-billed Dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus )
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Like all arthropods (including crustaceans and insects), horseshoe crabs have a hard exoskeleton (shell) on the outside of their body. To grow, the crab must shed its old exoskeleton and form a new, bigger one. Unlike true crabs, which back out of their old exoskeletons, horseshoe crabs push forward, leaving their molts behind them, leaving a split in the front.
When this image was taken over 5 years ago I was a very new birder and photographer. This was a confusing fall warbler to me back then and I was mistaken as to the species. It is indeed a Northern parula.
This bird does appear to be a first fall female. The yellow chest is essentially devoid of any evidence of color bands, and the dorsal aspects that are visible show only green and no blue at all. An adult fall female would have more blue in the green areas, and a diagnostic adult fall female would also have a obvious orange wash in the yellow throat. The second comment below has an embedded image that shows even more of the dorsal aspects of the same bird.
It was a very dark day. I don't think I got below ISO 2000, but there were lots of birds. Ten Warblers that I could identify, and a couple of Fallblers.
Canada geese eat seeds, berries, grasses, sedges. These were snacking on the slimy algae covered aquatic grasses on the upper spillway. They may be a freshwater version of eelgrass. Does not look very appetizing to me but the geese seemed to love it.
Canada Goose (Branta Canadensis)
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