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“They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left.”
Isabel Wilkerson
American journalist
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Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. She is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
The Sandhill Cranes are still migrating through the area on their way to their winter home. I am guess probably Bosque Del Apache in New Mexico. I took this here in March but saw several hundred here yesterday.
At this time of the year most of our bird species gather to continue their nomadic life in warmer conditions.
These golden plovers come from the North. They stop down here for some food and rest before proceeding with the journey.
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Sandhill Crane
Kearney, Nebraska
I was invited to join some friends to witness the annual crane migration in Kearney. I have to admit that it was not on my bucket list, but it SHOULD have been! I thoroughly enjoyed this experience. Nothing like getting up way before dawn, and quietly walking to a viewing blind to see and hear thousands of cranes waking to greet the morning. During the day, these beautiful birds are in the corn fields adding weight for their long journeys into Canada and the Arctic. I highly recommend that you add this destination to your bucket list.
I've never been very successful at bird-in-flight photos, but this (rented) lens helped me get some keepers.
With the last three days of cold showery weather it brought down lots of migrating geese in our area. Sturgeon County Alberta
At this time of year I see images of this very common Alberta summer migratory resident on the photo streams of my Flickr contacts who live much farther south of Alberta. It was nice to find this migration denier here today. They are not rare at this time of year here, but they are an uncommon sighting. Five were picked up on our Christmas bird count.
I wonder why a tiny fraction of the summer population decides not to migrate and braves our winter. This one is living along a riverside trail where it has a lot to eat courtesy of the many people who put food out for our local resident winter birds. It also has a snug place to hide and sleep in a snow covered brush pile at the trail edge.
It survived our recent brutal cold snap and I am sure it will be here to greet its returning fellows.
North Whitemud Trail. Edmonton, Alberta.
In the desert, mud from flashfloods becomes a highway for the movements of a variety of living organisms. Small mammals and birds leave noticeable tracks across the tableaus of clay as they search for the beetles and worms and centipedes who find their way in and out of cracks searching for other creatures carried in from rain-scoured banks to sustain and or possibly inhabit and infect the locals.
I share this image to project to you our own human traverse across this planet; how the infinitesimal can bring us to its table in a flash; how our movements have made us vulnerable; how we must consider our own large and noisy footprints.
The Migration
A small part of the more than 100.000 migrating snow geese stopping over at Middle Creek WMA during their Northward migration
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American Redstart, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, May 22, 2019.
One of the many warbler species that pass through Rondeau during migration.
Setophaga ruticilla
American Redstarts flash the bright patches in its tail and wings. This seems to startle insect prey and give the birds an opportunity to catch them.
C'est le temps de la migration pour les oiseaux avec ce vol d'oies cendrées cherchant à se pauser sur l'étang pour la nuit.
A mini Bay of Fundy with more than a 150 shorebirds. (24 Jul 18) - Captured with the reflection in mind. More to come
I was in a park last week and noticed a dozen Painted Lady flying around and decided to pack up and check the Experimental Farm just in case. Glad I did, there were about 300 butterflies.... so this time around I decided to challenge myself for the next 3 days and try to acpture two on the same flower. Not that easy with so many of them around, you don't have time to check your shots I took a break and played with bokeh.
This either juvenile or female Yellow-rumped warbler was also enjoying the backyard birdbath. Spring migration and warm weather here ... they all love the water features. Sorry, but you're going to have to endure a lot of these Spring birds with me!!! I practically home bound so when they come to my yard, WooHoo!
Texture background thanks to Tota:
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Birds from PNGMart:
Red-Bellied Woodpecker (male).
10 inches in length. Barred black and white above, pale buff below and on face. Sexes similar except that male has red crown and nape while female has red nape only. Reddish patch on lower abdomen seldom visible in the field.
Its habitat includes open and swampy woodlands. It also comes into parks during migration and feeders in winter.
It breeds from South Dakota, Great Lakes and southern New England south to the Gulf Coast and Florida. Northern most birds sometimes migrate south for the winter.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
The sunrises recently have been spectacular here along the Front Range of Colorado. On this day, the sun slipped behind some clouds at the end of the main event and presented this amazing skyscape. The misty clouds heavily reduced the brightness of the sun allowing this image to be taken without a filter.
Image notes: I stood in this spot busy with Canada Geese migrants hoping for a large group to fly in front of the sun. Instead what I got were multiple sorties of smaller groups flying in front of the sun. I couldn't resist the temptation in post to composite those groups into the larger flock you see here. ;-)))