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Captured a flock of geese migrating last fall...added a little Topaz edit.
There were maybe around 300 Snow Geese on this slough when I saw them.
Riding the waves on a windy day.
"Watching huge flocks of Snow Geese swirl down from the sky, amid a cacophony of honking, is a little like standing inside a snow globe. These loud, white-and-black geese can cover the ground in a snowy blanket as they eat their way across fallow cornfields or wetlands. Among them, you might see a dark form with a white head—a color variant called the “Blue Goose.” Snow Geese have skyrocketed in numbers and are now among the most abundant waterfowl on the continent.
The dark color of the blue morph Snow Goose is controlled by a single gene, with dark being partially dominant over white. If a pure dark goose mates with a white goose, the offspring will all be dark (possibly with white bellies). If two white geese mate, they have only white offspring. If two dark geese mate, they will have mostly dark offspring, but might have a few white ones too." From AllAboutBirds.
On 12 October 2021, I stayed home in the morning to wait for a landscaper who had arranged to come and look at my tiny backyard late morning and give me an estimate for putting down desperately needed new grass that I want putting down from fence to fence. A last minute phone call let me know that he had been called out on something urgent, so had to cancel So, I got ready as fast as I could and dashed out east of the city in hopes of finding the Snow Geese that people have been reporting. I was in luck, though the maybe 300 or so birds were a long way off. I don't often go out looking for birds that are reported, but I thought it would be nice to see some Snow Geese, that I rarely see. Not a good spot for parking/pulling over, but I was either the only person there or just one other. These really are beautiful birds - and very vocal. I managed to take one video of them noisily in flight, taken from inside my car and looking across the passenger seat. Not the best video, as I kept getting the edge of the door included. However, it was so windy that I stayed inside.
After spending some time watching these beautiful, migrating birds, I drove a few mainly familiar roads before heading home. Just enough time to find a few, previously photographed barns.
In the darkening conditions waiting for the Lindsey tanks uploaded a couple of postings ago, Sprinter 156497 makes its way through the dusky gloom near Trent. 27th March 2014.
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.
"The seasonal journey has begun." ~Tomitheos
Canada Geese
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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.
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.
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Our Daily Challenge ... hospitality.
This long weekend, the last of the school holidays has seen Ballina flooded with visitors to the beach and the Country Music festival. From a personal viewpoint, I had my daughter to visit and we all went to my son's for dinner.
So the weekend was filled with hospitable happenings, however when I went out this afternoon, all the visitors had gone home and all I saw were some locals walking their dogs on the beach.
This may be quite a stretch but it seems to me that the resident gulls and pelicans have been hospitable in allowing the migratory birds to share their home and resources while they nest and raise their young. The two on the bottom left are the visitors. Each year they come to nest in the sand along the river bank.