My wife and I just returned from Jasper-Pulaski Wildlife Reserve in Indiana to experience the Sandhill Crane migration. In this image you can see the adult on the top left showing the way to the youngster below.

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Dawn at Bosque del Apache (with snow geese flight)

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Merced National Wildlife Refuge

To be so close to the animals in all the dust was very exhilarating.

Migration Refueling Stop

Many species of migrating birds are dependent upon timing their migration from South America to take advantage of the horseshoe crabs spawning in the Delaware Bay, so the birds can feast on the crab eggs and relish their strength sufficiently to complete their migration to Northern breeding grounds.

This photograph of red knots and ruddy turnstones shows a very small part of large flocks of different shorebird species gathered at Reeds Beach on the Delaware Bay in New Jersey to feast on the horseshoe crab eggs. Photograph taken on 5/15/2018

Migration

I left Louisiana for Idaho 10 years ago. Since high school, I’d wanted to move out west. But at the time, I was thinking Arizona-ish, the desert – particularly so after Tragedy’s first Tour to the west coast in ’02. Picking Idaho as my destination felt a bit obvious after investigating typographical maps of the west.

We are explorers by nature. It’s no wonder that as more & more people become able to work remotely that many of us are moving our cages to places of personal interest. However, we’re not biologically tuned to leave our tribes. Family and life-long friendships help with mental health through limbic-regulation. Briefly, limbic regulation is a natural phenomenon where our bodies sync up via an open loop in the limbic portion of the brain. The limbic portion of our brains is also responsible for our emotions. You’ve certainly heard about women’s menstrual cycles syncing up, or when 2 or more people are vibing, their heartbeats will sync – that’s the limbic system at work.

A few months ago, I posted a picture called “#love” that featured only 2 trees experiencing life next to one another in an open field. I was actively thinking about how the limbic system keeps us alive when I took that photo -each tree sustaining the other. Just as a newborn finds its circadian & other vital rhythms using the limbic connection to its mother, our limbic connection to our partner can support us well into old age. How many times have you noticed when an elderly person passes that their spouse wasn’t too far behind?! That’s love. Considered ‘dying of a broken heart’, chronic loneliness spawns disease.

As it becomes easier & easier to migrate, never have too much pride to return. It’s ok, it’s healthy.

Salt Creek Township

Migratory Birds at Tanguar Haor,

Sunamganj,Bangladesh

Creamer's Field, Fairbanks Alaska

Paolo Pellegrin, Bains des Pâquis, Genève, Suisse, 2022.

Lifer for me

Osoyoos Oxbows

Osoyoos, BC

I live along the migration path of Sandhill Cranes and American White Pelicans. For brief periods of time, I get to see them on Osoyoos Lake or in the Osoyoos Oxbows.

While on my way to work this week, I spotted the Pelican's. When I zoomed in, I was excited to see the Sandhill Crane's hanging out not far from them.

Parque de la Montaña, Madrid, Spain

Cyprus bird migration

Did anyone else notice all the geese heading south this weekend? I have never seen so many geese. This shot doesn't do it justice as to how many were flying but it was the half moon that caught my eye and knowing these few geese would enter the frame nicely.

Have a great week everyone :-)

Bosque Del Apache, NM

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Le migrazioni sono spostamenti che gli animali compiono in modo regolare, periodico (stagionale), lungo rotte ben precise (ed in genere ripetute), e che coprono distanze anche molto grandi,

sono sempre seguiti da un ritorno alle zone di partenza.

Correlimos zarapitín ( Calidris ferruginea) durante el paso migratorio de otoño, aún con restos de su bonito plumaje de cría.

Desembocadura del Río Guadalquivir, Espacio Natural Doñana. Suroeste de España.

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Curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) during its autumn migration, still sporting remnants of its beautiful breeding plumage.

Guadalquivir River estuary, Doñana Natural Area. Southwest Spain.

I like to keep a dated record of shots on spring migration !

Thank you very much for your kind comments, favorites and looking

as if smoke across the sky

Each year around the same time the circular great wildebeest migration begins in the Ngorongoro area of the southern Serengeti of Tanzania. A natural phenomenon determined by the availability of grazing. It is January to March when the calving season begins. A time when there is plenty of rain ripened grass available for the 750,000 zebra that precede 1.2 million wildebeest and the following hundreds of thousands of other plains game.

During February the wildebeest spend their time on the short grass plains of the south eastern part of the ecosystem, grazing and giving birth to approximately 500,000 calves within a 2 to 3 week period: a remarkably synchronized event. Few calves are born ahead of time and of these, hardly any will survive. The main reason for this being that very young calves are more noticeable to predators when mixed with older calves from earlier in the previous year, and so are easier prey. As the rains end in May the animals start moving north west, into the areas around the Grumeti River, where they typically remain until late June. July sees the main migration of wildebeest, zebra and eland heading north, arriving on the Kenyan border late July / August for the remainder of the dry season (the Thomson's and Grant's Gazelles move only east/west). In early November with the start of the short rains the migration starts moving south again, to the short grass plains of the south east, usually arriving in December in plenty of time for calving in February.

Some 250,000 wildebeest die during the journey from Tanzania to Maasai Mara Reserve in lower Kenya, a total of 800 kilometres (500 mi). Death is usually from thirst, hunger, exhaustion, or predation. The migration is chronicled in the 1994 documentary film, Africa: The Serengeti. The second-largest is the South Sudan animal migration.

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Hooded Warbler on its way back south.

Northerly migration has begun

Serengeti, Tanzania

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Every year thousands of Wildebeests make their way from the Southern part of the Serengeti northwards to the Kenyan Masai Mara. See more of my pictures at www.ruedis.ch

It's getting to be that time here in Minnesota , when a lot of of waterfowl visit lakes and ponds to rest and fatten up for their long migratory journey.

And we have a lot of Canada geese in the park. They're migrating south at the moment and we do hear them when they fly over the house occasionally. It's kind of come to symbolize the mournful sound of winter's ushering in to me. Kind of bittersweet sound.

Thanks again to Distressed Jewell and others for the textures...

We visited Freezout Lake this weekend, where the Snow Geese pause in their migration north. I'm not sure how many were there this weekend, but there can be up to 300,000 at times. This is a "few" of them flying from the lake out to the grain fields to feed in the evening.

There are only 6 stiff tail ducks in the world and this is one and also the only in North

America. Grandin Pond St.Albert.

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Early reports of this year's Monarch migration are promising. We'll see what the winter counts are in Mexico for a more precise measure of populations. From a historical standpoint, it's difficult for me to get excited over incremental increases. In the scheme of things Monarchs have a very specific need for milkweed to persist and agriculture and human development have destroyed all but remnants of this resource. I'll keep planting milkweed, even though I know my efforts don't amount to much. Our beautiful world, pass it on.

This photo was taken in February 2014 in a year when we had much more snow than this year. These picnic tables were left on the beach all winter at Bear Lake State Park, Idaho. They remind me of photos I have seen of land crab migration in the tropics.

Currents are starting to flow again in the same direction every spring do.

Searching for the equator; the embrace of a warmer and bright start of a new cycle.

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I've been very conflicting about self-portraiture lately. A mixture between condescending and 'I'm so sick of my face'.

That plus uni, plus creativity-hibernation hasn't been the best combo.

But it feels like I'm finally waking up.

Thanks to all of you who keep around even when I dissapear from online life.

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out on the back waters of the Mississippi the other day to do some bird watching. I think there may be up to 10 different kinds of birds here in this picture alone. It's a refuge so we tried to let them rest but it was hard not to paddle closer.

wishful thinking......

Photographed in Lucerne, Switzerland