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Today i was so lucky to see several hundred of cranes at the moors near Lake Dümmer , Lower saxony, Germany. It is difficult to get them on a photo as they fly away when you come closer than 300 meter. But sometimes they just fly over your head!
The ridiculously warm weather has these guys migrating to their breeding pools already. In fact, I think some of them actually were out last week back in February! Spent some time with volunteers last night helping these guys across the road in the Skaneateles Conservation Area.
while it's pretty cool being in the midst of the Monarch migration photo's don't really do it justice.....i spent more time in the goldenrods chasing the individuals while at Wendy Park on Monday
A few shorebird species in migration have arrived in the Ottawa area.... love capturing these little guys.
I have already posted several pictures of the Semipalmated Sandpipers I captured in Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia. These images were taken in the Bay of Fundy at Johnson's Mills, New Brunswick where I headed after Sackville, only a 30 minute drive. This is where you will find the greatest numbers of these shorebirds during their migration between mid-July to mid-August. I spent two days observing them and this is the biggest flock for me which was approximately 45,000. Much greater than in Grand Pré. In this case, the Peregrine Falcon flew over the flock at rest on the beach and picked one up. Needless to say the entire flock took off..... the view and sound cannot be described, just spectacular.
We had a pair of Nashville warblers (Leiothlypis ruficapilla) stop by the pond's stream for a bath and drink on their way north.We haven't seen any other migrants but the oranges and hummingbird feeders need to go up.We're hoping for a colorful spring.
What a wonderful capture of a bird who doesn't stay around here long. I hope to see them again on the next trip around.
We've been chasing snow geese.
This is part of a flock of snow geese that we saw in Eastern Ontario near St. Isidore.
Thousands and thousands more were in the sky in every direction.
Absolutely amazing.
2,250 kilometers, over 2,900 photos.
Anser caerulescens
Snow Geese make epic journeys by air, but they are impressive on foot, too. Within the first three weeks of hatching, goslings may walk up to 50 miles with their parents from the nest to a more suitable brood-rearing area. Molting Snow Geese can outrun many predators.
Digital collage, painting and processing
The Great Velocipede Migration - S. J. Tucker
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(Apologies...had to take down and redo)
Image taken at the El Rosario Monarch sanctuary near Angangueo Mexico. Plant Milkweed for these beautiful butterflies.
I always love spring migration, especially when a Rose-breasted Grosbeak graces our yard with his presence.
Migration Stills … HBM!
I think this week I will make HBM – Happy Bird Monday!
This is a sample of some of the birds migrating back to Iowa for the Summer.
Most were taken with my 150-600 Tamron or my Canon 70/200 w 2x multiplier.
Most likely, F5.6, at 1/1250 or 1/1600sec speed, ISO 400 to 800 max
The birds are (left to right):
Row 1 – Rose Breasted Grosbeak (m), American Goldfinch (m), Harris Sparrow, Blue Jay
Row 2 – White Breasted Nuthatch, Red-headed Woodpecker, Baltimore Oriole (m), Baltimore Oriole (f)
Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, PA
According to the "Migration Update", I took a day off and went there before sunrise, because the birds will take off around the sunrise. When they took off, and passed me over head, and that was what they were, moon and geese. This was the only one they are in the perfect position, others were in either sides of the moon.
This is peak week for monarch migration here in northeast Iowa. Now that the blazing stars are done blooming, Joe Pye weed, that towers to seven feet tall, takes over as a favorite monarch nectar source. I saw about 50 monarchs working in a 5 acre prairie patch on the fen farm today, which means there were likely about 300 monarchs on the 30 acres of prairie there. This may sound like a lot, but a decade ago there would have been well over a thousand on the prairie during Labor Day weekend. The monarch butterfly's future looks very bleak unless the U.S. citizens speak up and pressure Congress to take action to save them now.
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Migration
Au grès des courants
Pour découvrir , le meilleurs temps
Les oiseaux se déplacent
En survolant de si grands espaces
Indifférent à notre présence
Ils filent vivre leur jolie romance
J' aime les observer
Avec le plus grand des respects
Domi
I've noticed so many Monarch Butterflies in the past couple of weeks. They seem to be fueling up for their long migration south.
Thousands and thousands of snow geese descend on far North Texas during the migration...I felt very privileged to see and photograph this spectacle.
This was taken at the Hagerman Wildlife Refuge on Tuesday afternoon.
This grind of White Fronted Geese looked more like a swarm as they took to the air over the harvested rice fields of Butte County. Fall/Winter migration is underway along the Pacific Flyway with the White Fronted arriving in large numbers.
It is the only North American sandpiper whose breeding range extends southward into the tropics. This find this morning was a lifer for me. Isle Lake County of Parkland.
Poznan, Poland
Sw. MArcin
Spring
Headign to the tram home yesterday I was inspired by the flood of people into the streets just after the storm had passed. I enjoy this low dof and the sense of movement i creates. I also often contemplate the idea of being "grounded" and often when I am not I tend to look at our connection to one another and the earth we walk on a bit more...like now.
Birds migrating south at sunrise from Market Lake, north of Idaho Falls.
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Discussing whether or not they should head North.
It was a disappointing day at Bosque del Apache NWR yesterday. Most of the birds have flown North already. I saw a couple herons, a couple roadrunners and a hawk. There were a pair of bald eagles in a dead tree in the middle of one of the larger ponds, but my 100-400mm just isn't quite enough lens....
...it was a beautiful day though and while it was disappointing photographically it was a nice day out with my son. We finally found some birds at a pond on a farm just outside the refuge. The farmer had graciously left the gate open and there were more photographers there than anywhere in the refuge.
Definitely will make my trip down south earlier in the season next fall. Seeing as how I live less than a 2 hour drive away I could make more than one trip.
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