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Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.
Walt Whitman
Wildebeest in the Mara National Reserve, Kenya, at or nearing the northern limit of their annual migration.
Bird migration forecast maps show predicted nocturnal migration 3 hours after local sunset and are updated every 6 hours. Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology currently produce these forecasts.
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This is the artist who created this lovely Fibre Art piece called "Migration". She told me the birds on the piece are Snow Geese. I met her this morning in Trumansburg, NY and purchased this piece. I simply love it!
Part of the Dahmen's farm fence built from the wheels. I think it is the only tourist attraction in this whole area.
Thousands of birds are making their winter migration over California's central valley. It's going to be very hard for them to find water this year
An abandoned and now disintegrating house in Falyani, a Kumaun village of the lower Himalayas. Migration to cities has made views like these all too normal in such villages. The intricate wooden design is now a lost art.
For me, the beautiful wood carvings (about a century old), the lock on the door, and the gaping hole next to the door of the disintegrating house that has now defeated the purpose of the lock, all of it together, narrate a deeply saddening story. It is the story of a homeowner locking their door for the last time, leaving a house built by their ancestors with so much love and affection, but with the hope that they will return home from time to time. The house, so far, has stood the test of time, as best as it could, slowly revealing its insides, giving us a peek into the process through which it was constructed, before it inevitably falls.
Bird migration forecast maps show predicted nocturnal migration 3 hours after local sunset and are updated every 6 hours. Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology currently produce these forecasts..
Lots of birds in the air tongiht. A good time to visit Birdcast.info and look at the live radar. Then walk outside and listen for awhile.
circa 1816, formed 1747
a brief history, from the AppomattoxHistoricDistrict FB page section on Amherst County:
"St. Mark's is the direct successor of the first Christian church established in 1747 in what is now Amherst County. The Parish was represented at the convention at which the Diocese of Virginia was formed; it subscribed to the expenses of the first General Convention, as well as voting for Delegates for the same. Clifford (formerly New Glasgow) was a flourishing town in Revolutionary times. In 1778, Amherst Parish, which included what is now Amherst and Nelson Counties, was divided and Amherst County took the name Lexington Parish in honor of the Battle of Lexington.
"St. Mark's congregation has never been large, but support has always been strong, and the people caring. The parish hall, dedicated in November, 1950 continues as a community center for the area. St. Mark's celebrated the 250th anniversary of the founding of the congregation on September 13, 1998 with the following thought: "It is in remembrance of all those who have been a part of the glorious history of this parish, in thanksgiving for their contribution in the past, that we here dedicate ourselves to the future."
"Under the massive limbs of an ancient oak the bell still rings 9:00 a.m. each Sunday morning"
"The seasonal journey has begun." ~Tomitheos
Canada Geese
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Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge is a very noisy place when the snow geese migration is on! This is only a small part of the resting flock. This is a great place to see nature.
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Bird migration forecasts show predicted nocturnal migration 3 hours after local sunset and are updated every 6 hours. These forecasts come from models trained on the last 23 years of bird movements in the atmosphere as detected by the US NEXRAD weather surveillance radar network. In these models we use the Global Forecasting System (GFS) to predict suitable conditions for migration occurring three hours after local sunset. These maps also show precipitation forecasts (outlined and shown in grayscale). Note, areas forecast to experience precipitation and bird migration may overlap, and predictions for migration intensity may be highly variable in these locations.
Colorado State University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology currently produce these forecasts. Leon Levy Foundation, Edward W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellowship, and the Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission supported this research, with additional support from University of Massachusetts Amherst and University of Oklahoma. The BirdCast project was created with grant awards from the National Science Foundation and subsequently supported by awards from Leon Levy Foundation.
The park rangers counted a total of 319 manatees entering the spring that day. When I was a kid, our schools would travel by bus to witness these natural events. As an adult, I traveled 3,000 miles to feel "home".
Blue Springs State Park, Florida. January 2025.
120 Kodak Portra 400. Made with the Yashica Mat-124G.
Testing a Canon 100-400L
Chasing snow geese - they weren't where they were yesterday nor were they where I wanted them to be.
(see next photo, because I know the new forced format loses everything after 3 comments. Hey @Flickr add a story mode!)
"Thousands of Blue Jays migrate in flocks along the Great Lakes and Atlantic coasts, but much about their migration remains a mystery. Some are present throughout winter in all parts of their range. Young jays may be more likely to migrate than adults, but many adults also migrate. Some individual jays migrate south one year, stay north the next winter, and then migrate south again the next year. No one has worked out why they migrate when they do. " Cornell
Uchhali Lake is one of those lakes where migratory birds from Syberia land and stay till their departure time. It's a worth seeing opportunity.
A countless number of snow geese in North Dakota gather to rest during their migration flight to the north tundra feeding/breeding grounds.
Sandhill cranes on their way south congregate on the field behind the center pivot irrigator.
Climax, Michigan.