View allAll Photos Tagged migration
Bar-tailed Godwiths hold the world record for the longest land migration non-stop flight over 11,000km.
Bar-tailed Godwits alter themselves physically before migration.
Gain body fat (accounts for 55% of their weight)
To do this they shrink their liver, kidney and gut
Only the organs essential for long-distance flight are maintained.
They use a mental-maps for navigation which almost certainly includes star-charts and beak-compasses.
The birds follow patterns of movement engrained into a culture that evolved with the ecosystem they inhabit today,
Amazing Nature.
I love this sparrow with his bold black and white head. These are passing during migration and we can only see them for a short period of time.
Many migrants can be found here this time of year. By that I mean salmon, steelhead, coastal cutthroat, and wayward anglers.
A pretty bird in her own right. The grosbeaks only pass through here on their migrations. I wish they would stay though! Have a blessed Sabbath day everyone!
Migration - small part of a large flock of swallows migrating, or preparing to migrate, at Bombay Hook NWR.
I scanned the flocks looking for less common swallows but these appear to be only Tree Swallows.
There are out of focus rafts of ducks in the background including pintails, wigeon, scaup and gadwalls
2020_10_14_EOS 7D Mark II_7026-Edit_V1
For warbler hunters, this is the best time of the year I if you experience the right conditions. This spring in north Florida there have several periods of strong west winds and rain at night. Not wanting to be pushed out over the Atlantic too far with lots of rain and clouds, the migrating flocks put down along the coast. I wish that wouldn't happen to them and they could continue on, but it is amazing to see so many birds all at once feeding in the trees. Yellow-rumped Warblers were everywhere and this is the first time I had seen a male in his finest breeding colors. This is the Myrtle or eastern race with its white throat and black mask. The yellow crown patch is visible and distinctive.
Member of Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
Either a female or immature male magnolia warbler. They are coming through WNC at a fast and furious pace now. Taken at the Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC.
A herd of long legged elephant sculptures escaped from the Salvador Dali Museum in Monterey and were seen heading South across the dunes in Glamis California.
canon point and shoot, tri-x 400
Image ©Philip Krayna, BoxxCarr, all rights reserved. This image is not in the public domain. Please contact me for permission to download, license, reproduce, or otherwise use this image, or to just say "hello". I value your input and comments. See more at www.boxxcarr.com.
My loyalty is with Flickr. But, you can also see me on Instagram. Follow me: @dyslexsyk
Lots of warblers coming through our property in northern NJ right now. Magnolia Warbler, perfectly posed under a bit of goldenrod. (And not a terrific photo, but, hey - sometimes it's about capturing the moment.
I was afraid to get out of the car..would of needed a shower, I don't count birds ... had to be a million lol was something to see....Can you spot the Cowbirds lol..
Liberty Loop area NY
Hancock County - Iowa
I keep reading how the migration patterns have changed for
ducks and geese. They don't migrate where and when they use to . . . say 50 to 75 years ago.
Hey, this isn't Waikiki Beach on Oahu! It's northern Iowa, where we've had snow, wind and freezing rain already. Aren't you Canadians going south yet?
Eh?
Copyright 2019
The past few days we got to witness the great migration of cranes again in the eastern parts of the Netherlands. I get goose bumps every time I see them fly over, making their distinctive calls to the rest of the flock. A few years ago I managed to photograph flying cranes near a rising sun. Ever since then I had the wish to photograph them flying directly in front of the sun to really make out a nice silhouette. Earlier this week that wish came true. I got to a location where I knew they often spend the night during the migration north and saw eight of them standing in the water. I positioned myself between the cranes and the sunrise and waited for them to take flight. A few minutes after sunrise, the sun disappeared behind the clouds. “No luck this Spring”, I remember myself thinking. The cranes eventually took off 30 minutes later. While I was following them in the viewfinder, I suddenly saw them flying in front of a rising sun! The sun had appeared above the clouds again, and not only that, there was a nice horizontal cloud above it to give some more power to the photograph. Every now and then things just seem to come together and this week was my turn.
Common Crane.
-
Grues cendrées.
Réserve nationale de faune sauvage d'Arjuzanx.
Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
News this month:
Publication in the French magazines "Digital Photo" n° 21 of my photo Ghost and in "Réponse Photo" n° 300 of my photo A ray of colors.
Thank you to all for your kind words! I really appreciate each one of them !!!
See my shots with 1,000+ faves, in Explore, my 3 best or "On the road" (with 4.700.000 views / top 10 Flickr 2016).
Street Art - colorful mural painted on the brick exterior of a building depicting “Path to Migration” in
Woonsocket, RI USA
RKO_3211.
It's that time of year again!
The migration of thousands of wildebeest and zebra crossings the border between Tanzania and Kenya in search for fresh grass.
From the archives. Not sure if uploaded earlier.
Copyright: Robert Kok. All rights reserved! Watermark protected.
More of my work and activities can be seen on:
linktr.ee/robertkok
www.instagram.com/robertkok_photography/
Please do not use my photos on websites, blogs or in any other media without my explicit permission.
Thanks a lot for your visit, faves and comments. Its truly appreciated!
DSC_3218. Great migration. From the archives! Too many images....! LOL
Copyright: Robert Kok. All rights reserved!
Please do not use my photos on websites, blogs or in any other media without my explicit permission.
Thanks for visiting, commenting and faving my photos. Its very much appreciated!
279/365 2025
I’m sure we’ve had more Monarchs this year. We’re still seeing plenty passing through Wichita on their fall migration to the mountains of central Mexico, where they will escape the cold winter weather.
Mule deer live in the mountains around here in the summer and migrate into the Bear Lake Valley in winter. They sometimes graze these farm fields in huge numbers and one year we counted more than 300 here at North Eden, Utah, less than a mile from the Idaho border. The east side of Bear Lake is much drier than the west side so the deer usually don't have to battle deep snow here. This photo doesn't show the entire herd which numbered about 40 now. We saw just one buck here. They tend to be more wary around people and stay back in the hills as long as they can.
There is a palpable energy to a tightly packed herd like this that comes through even in a still image, without the movements and the grunts. Unlike flamingos or whales, wildebeests don't stink, so the experience is limited to only two senses, sight and sound.
Still shot extracted from 4K video, SONY RX10M3. Nominal sharpness applied, corresponding to about the 50% level in LightRoom.
I am very impressed by the sharpness of the still frame out of a video sequence, this is amazing! There are low end DSLRs that don't have this image quality for still photos. See the B&W version of this below to see the micro contrast.
Maasai Mara, Kenya