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(Ambystoma maculatum). Deep East Texas.
Three male spotted salamanders on the march to their breeding pond. I actually found these salamanders under cover near the pond and set this shot up to mimic their migration which takes place at night during or after warm late winter/spring rains.
Although it's the tail end of the annual migration, there are still very nice mixed flocks around. This particular one has Short-billed dowitcher, Red Knot, Dunlin, Black-bellied plover, Western sandpiper.
A wonderful sight.
Many shorebirds are facing extinction please support habitat protection as part of your charitable giving efforts in 2018.
It would be a lamentable loss for our children and grandchildren to never have the opportunity to view the magnificent beauty of shorebirds.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/27/opinion/shorebirds...
Migration is definitely underway, had several pass through my area in the last week. I keep several Milkweed plants for them. Danaus plexippus
Daily migration from home to rapid transit to office in downtown Vancouver. They are coming from the Sky Train station (LRT), I am on my way there.
Flocks of peep sandpipers (probably Western or Least) are in the marsh. When they get up and whiz around in their mega flocks you can hear the rush of their wings and the myriad peeping calls. People use the term force of nature all the time, these migrating flocks truly live up to that term.
Alewives during their annual river migration from the ocean back to their spawning grounds. I used the Outex underwater housing for my Nikon Z6 with the NIKKOR Z 14-30mm f/4 S lens.
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A pink-footed goose (Anser brachyrhynchus) together with two barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis), having a break during migration another autumn, on the island I'm from.
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Across the vast savannas of Kenya's Mara Plain, the great annual migration unfolds each year, as it has since the dawn of civilization. Traversing the arid land, come millions of animals..on their long trek from Tanzania north to Kenya, traveling side by side, ... .crossing rivers and the African plains in their perennial, age-old quest for food and water. And close at their heels follow the predators, leopards, cheetahs and Lions
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La Bernache du Canada (Branta canadensis) est une espèce de grands oiseaux de la famille des anatidés. Elle est la plus grande des bernaches, ou oies noires. Au Canada, elle est couramment appelée outarde, terme réservé en Europe aux Otididae. (Wikipédia)
The Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) is a wild goose with a black head and neck, white patches on the face, and a brownish-gray body. Native to arctic and temperate regions of North America, it is occasionally found in northern Europe, and has been introduced to other temperate regions.
A VOIR EN GRAND !
Juste avant que j'entreprenne la montée vers le pied de la falaise, un vol de parapentes s'est immobilisé au-dessus de la paroi est, les voiles tournoyant et se croisant dans un ciel limpide, soulevées par la brise qui s'élevait des pentes ensoleillées et du gigantesque mur de calcaire.
My favorite thing every fall is to be able to witness these ethereal beauties head south. They are very active this week and a cold front is coming mid-week-that is always what they move out on. Goodness, I love them so much. Happy weekend friends.
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A flock of umbrellas (Umbrella Gothica Nigra) during autumn migration.
"Within a population, there can also be different patterns of timing and migration based on the age groups and sex. Only the female umbrellas migrate, with the males staying resident." (Wikipedia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_migration)
This is one of the original works now hanged on the walls of my "Dreamscapes" exhibition, open till June 18th at COLORE Art Gallery.
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Moon : FantasyStock on Deviant Art.
Black umbrella : stock4profs on Deviant Art.
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The spectacle and wonder of Spring shorebird migration on the Washington state coast. A mixed flock of Western sandpipers, Dunlin, Dowitcher.
Dunlin and Western Sandpiper counts were in the 1000's and there were are at least 200 dowitcher. Wonderful scene.
Shorebirds are facing extinction please support habitat protection as part of your charitable giving efforts in 2018. It would be a lamentable loss for our children and grandchildren to never have the opportunity to view the magnificent beauty of shorebirds at migration.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/04/27/opinion/shorebirds...
THEY'RE BACK!!!!!! Just like clockwork, every spring that Ive been here, the Rose Breasted Grosbeaks show up the first week of May. This year, my first bird was a female, and then was later joined by another female and 2 males in the afternoon. i saw my first pair many years ago at our old house, they were there for a morning then vanished. Several years went by and i finally saw another female there. The past 3 springs at the new house has been only males, so I was actually delighted when the females showed up. these birds definietly like to perch first before going to the feeders, so the photo branches will be used heavily for them. Next to catch a male in a good spot.
“These are large, long-tailed sparrows with small heads and short but stout, seed-eating bills. Golden-crowned Sparrows feed on seeds and insects on the ground and in low vegetation. They whistle their slow, mournful-sounding songs from high perches and nest in dense, low vegetation. In migration and winter, they gather in loose flocks and mix with other sparrows, especially White-crowned Sparrows. Golden-crowned Sparrows are most visible during migration and winter, when they frequent forest edge, shrubs, chaparral, and backyards of the West Coast. They nest much farther north, in low, shrubby areas of tundra or at the edges of boreal forests….. When day length increases in the spring, the Golden-crowned Sparrow detects the change through photoreceptors (light-sensitive cells). Its body responds by putting on fat and getting an urge to migrate.”
Status : Least Concern
Source : Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Brown Acres – Jackson County – Oregon - USA
Thousands of wildebeest make their way through Masai Mara during the biggest migration known in nature
I never would have though I would see swans from my backyard. The sturgeon river flooded the fields below me attracting a huge amount of waterfowl yesterday. Hundreds of white-fronted geese and tundra swans and of coarse lots of ducks. Backyard birding St.Albert Foreground swans are Trumpeter Swans.
Fir Island - The dark morph, known as the Blue Goose, is extremely rare in Washington and has a dark gray body and white head. Both morphs have orange legs. Juveniles are gray overall with dark legs. www.birdweb.org/birdweb/bird/snow_goose
Fraser-Skagit Population Dynamic. "Snow geese that over-winter in northwest Washington comprise a unique population of intercontinental travelers shared by three countries: the United States, Canada and Russia. These snow geese make an arduous, annual flight to Russia’s Chuckchi Sea, to breed on Wrangel Island off the north coast of Siberia. They are called the Fraser-Skagit population, because the same identification collaring/banding studies that disclosed details of their migration timing and itinerary, found that snow geese of this group had a high fidelity to one nesting site on Wrangel Island and to one wintering area, here. They stay apart from the other snow geese aggregations that nest separately on Wrangel and winter in California." ~ wdfw.wa.gov
Réalisée le 09 octobre 2016 au Cap Tourmente, Québec.
Made on October, 9th / 2016 at Cap Tourmente, Quebec.
Sunrise over the Mississippi River with thousands of Trumpeter Swans, Geese, and ducks preparing for another day of feasting, resting, and continuing their trek south for the winter. The sound of all these birds together was deafening. But at least I got to combine my two favorite types of photography in one shot.