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Taken as our safari ride drove through the vast savannah. I wish the picture was a little clearer but I couldn't not put it up! I love the shade of the Acacia tree against the backdrop of the migrating wildebeest!
An aerated area in Crystal Lake where there were hundreds of water foul beside or in the open water. It was about -16 degrees below zero on this morning, and several actually looked frozen.
Canadian Geese, swans, snow geese, ducks and several I couldn't tell what they were due to the haze around the open water!
What happened to migration? Seriously?
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This i take on my property ,they look for place to sleep-over .
I have already posted several pictures of the Semipalmated Sandpipers I captured in Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia. These images were taken in the Bay of Fundy at Johnson's Mills, New Brunswick where I headed after Sackville, only a 30 minute drive. This is where you will find the greatest numbers of these shorebirds during their migration between mid-July to mid-August. I spent two days observing them and this is the biggest flock for me which was approximately 45,000. Much greater than in Grand Pré. In this case, the Peregrine Falcon flew over the flock at rest on the beach and picked one up. Needless to say the entire flock took off..... the view and sound cannot be described, just spectacular.
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An Eastern Towhee missed the call to fly South is attempting to over Winter here. She appears to be adapting.
The Blackpoll Warbler signals and end to migration as they move through. I can't believe how fast time goes......
Lots of Upper Mississippi River Flyway fall migrators in this image including at least one of my absolute favorite duck species. The tiny Bufflehead, dwarfed by the Tundra Swan it's swimming in front of, near the lower middle-left center of the image. Photographed in Goose Island Park, La Crosse County, Wisconsin.
DAY 1
The light is slowly fading. Still in the Humber Estuary.
For a beautiful moment a skein of geese fly alongside. Already on the trek South? Like us?
Twice a year we go South, once in Spring , once end of Summer.
Did you know that geese:
- eat more than 1-5 pounds of grass per day
- average about 5 goslings per year
- weigh 20 to 25 pounds
- mate for life and will stay together throughout the year
- adult geese lose wing feathers during this time and are unable to fly.
- geese can fly again approximately 6 weeks after moulting.
- generally by August all geese are able to fly.
- resident geese do not know how to migrate.
- resident geese can fly long distances as their migratory cousins,but generally have learned that it is not necessary.
Have a wonderful day, filled with love and beauty, M, (*_*)
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Last December I went to Bordeaux to watch cranes on migration. A rare opportunity to 'go full nerd', and it was truly amazing, a genuine natural spectacle not far from our shores. And if we can restore our countryside from its ecologically degraded state, they will come back here too.
I wished I could have done a better job on this but it happened so fast! I waited for another half an hour hoping another group would follow but it never happened.
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I see a lot of this going on around here. As long as the ponds and lakes don't freeze the Canada Geese will stick around.
The spectacle of the annual winter migration of the Elk Herds from the Rocky Mountain Foothills towards the Ranch Country just Northwest of Calgary.
At Pallikaranai,Chennai
Black-winged stilts (Himantopus himantopus), Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola), relatively rare Fulvous whistling ducks (Dendrocygna bicolor) and a Glossy ibis (Plegadis falcinellus) in its beautiful breeding plumage.
The waterfowl are in full migration mode now.
Murray Marsh Alberta. Finally the sun came out this afternoon😊😊
With the last three days of cold showery weather it brought down lots of migrating geese in our area. Sturgeon County Alberta