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Hundreds if not thousands of monarch butterflies were gathering on the Spit today before crossing Lake Ontario during their migration south to Mexico.
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Piraeus port, Syria war refugees, little boy and a woman holding a kid
It's been, for long now, a common daily activity where hundreds of Syria War refugees along with illegal & undocumented Asian and African migrants are smuggled (in unseaworthy rubber boats and perilous conditions in the Aegean sea) from the Asian coast of Turkey to the Greek islands, by conveniently operating and hugely profiting traffickers (selling out even fake, water-absorbent life-jackets, to migrants), under the nose, if not guidance and pressure, of the Turkish coast guard, and despite the EU-Turkey Migration treaty.
Migrants arriving to Greek islands are then transferred by ferryboats to Piraeus with the prospect to be dispersed to "temporary" camps all over the Greek mainland, but most likely to remain "trapped" for undisclosed time, if not for ever, as far as the key migrant "European corridor" remains closed-down at the borders in the north region of Macedonia(Greece) with FYROM* in order to protect the rest of EU states (uneager to accept but a tiny number of documented refugees) and also discourage future migrants from heading to Europe.....
Meanwhile in Greece, migration inflow steadily surpasses outflow, as far as the war in Syria continues and Turkey capitalizes not only on Syrian refugees but on all its Asian and African migrants reaching swiftly (with cheap TurkishAirlines fare & e-visa) Istanbul, Europe's backdoor, by smuggling them to Greece so assisting its expansionist policy through the ethnological, cultural and economic destabilization of the small communities in the islands and (given the huge influx and the border blockage), all over Greece, while generating also an instability potential of the status quo in the Aegean Sea that Turkey's "deep state" would like to change by dividing it in the middle (if not by taking over whatever Greek land) at a given opportunity, alike with the Invasion of Cyprus in 1974 ...
Consequently, Greece, already suffering a deep socio-economic & political crisis under its divisive, incompetent and obsessed neo-communist leadership, is turned into a de facto European "migrant buffer zone", and has to manage alone, just with EU "technical assistance", the unstoppable migration influx from Turkey and an additional, social crisis. It looks as if Greece is declining into a state of uncontrolled anarchy (UPDATE MAR31 less than 24hrs after OP) while EU is imploding and fragmenting from the backlash of its own misdeeds and consequent crises ....
Crises that emerged from the geopolitical games and the wars imposed and/or exploited by the .... Great European Powers ( UK, France, Germany), along with the USA, NATO, as well as the Sunni Islamists of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and, last but not least, Turkey and its neo-ottoman styled leadership that promoted the war in Syria and cooperated undercover with ISIS, further escalating its own undeclared (civil) war against the Kurds, not just within Turkey, but also in Syria
Wars fancily dubbed as "against tyranny and terror", have in fact caused by far more misery, terror and havoc with the disintegration of Iraq, Libya and Syria, the eventual creation of Al-Qaeda, ISIS and the other jihadist organizations that preach and exercise blind hatred, and terrorism against the West, while they impose their domain and Brutal Rule of Terror on a number of regions across Middle East, Asia, and Africa.
UPDATES
MAR.31 : Migrants Clash at Pireus Port
APR .. 1 : Violence at Chios Island Migrant Camp
APR . 4 : First Deportations to Turkey While Migrant Boats Continue Ariving to Greek Islands
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*FYROM, (originally Vardarska or Vardar Banovina), a landlocked country and non EU member state, is usually referred as "Macedonia" in the "narrative overlay" of media such as CNN, BBC etc that systematically defy the only officially recognized (by UN, EU, NATO, IOC, IAAF etc. etc) name "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), for their very own reasons. if not for assisting the agenda of specific interests (of USA, NATO, UK, certain EU member states and, as usual, Turkey) in the allready quite broken apart and multi-divided, Balkans ...
FYROM also should not be confused, with the historical region of Macedonia in Greece as the later incorporates the whole area where Ancient Macedonian People firstly appeared and lived more than 2500 years ago, that is about 1000 years earlier than the arrival of the Slavs in the Balkans....
Palm Warbler,early spring during migration, Western Pennsylvania.
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The crush of migrating mergansers has moved on. Only occasional pairs of these fast flying diving birds remain, stragglers in the migration to the south. We’ll see them return in the spring as the frozen lake melts along the shoreline.
I have had more monarch butterflies around the past few days than I can ever remember. I do have a nice crop of milkweed and Greggs Mist plants in the back yard that seem to be go to plants. Wind stopped long enough to get this one pretty sharp.
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Why can we not be like birds eh? LOL.
Well, they do ADAPT to their environment, a big must for ‘migrants’?
Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds.
Many species of bird migrate.
Migration carries high costs in predation and mortality, including from hunting by humans, and is driven primarily by availability of food.
It occurs mainly in the northern hemisphere, where birds are funnelled on to specific routes by natural barriers such as the Mediterranean Sea or the Caribbean Sea.
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Some Birds fly around a IAIS job coming out of Blue Island Yard shoving to pull down the connection at grade
Migrations
They just keep coming through this area. As long as Cayuga Lake is open they will land on it.
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This is a closer look at the Fiber Art I bought. It is befitting since now many birds will be starting their migration north. I really love the whole piece and I think the colours are very nice!
Feeling both lucky and perplexed about this shot. Got out of the car after driving across town and looked up, mainly to check out the clouds, which have been in flux all day. Saw this flock of big slow-flying birds, hardly moving their wings, floating across the sky, almost directly above. Managed to get the camera in a case in my pocket out in time.. got off a quick point and shoot without a viewfinder. I'd like to know why they were flying north.
Second shot of the white pelican migration flying north flocking like hawks kettling. It was overcast, and they were flying at a good clip and gone pretty quickly, alas, but fascinating to see.
Musée des Confluences Lyon
Hema Upadhyay, Mute migration, 2008 (245 x 612,5 cm Matériaux composites, objets de récupération.
Die große Wanderung der Gnu-Herden in Kenia und Tansania, auch „Great Migration“ genannt, ist ein beeindruckendes Naturschauspiel. Mehr als eine Million Gnus, begleitet von Hunderttausenden Thomson Gazellen und Zebras, machen sich jährlich auf die große Reise durch die Serengeti und die Massai Mara. Raubtiere wie Löwen, Geparden und Hyänen finden sich in der Nähe der Herden ein. An den Flussläufen warten Krokodile, die bei einem „River Crossing“ fette Beute machen.