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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 .
.Each year thousands of Monarch Butterflies flock to Pismo Beach. From late October to February, the butterflies cluster in the limbs of Eucalyptus trees at Pismo State Beach. While it may be winter elsewhere these insects have come 2,000 miles from Mexico every year . They like this grove as it protects them from the wind and group together to stay warm and mate. Sometimes they will burst like a great confetti balloon to fly up 100 feet and then come back to cluster together looking like brown leaves in the distance. I have seen them here 3 or 4 times over many years and its is one amazing site just 300 feet from the Pacific Ocean.
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it is hard to show just how many birds are swarming in photos. too many to see. they are magnificent.
they are migrating to brazil. they will be gone tomorrow.
This photo was early morning and before entering the area I looked for signs to make sure I could go in and I was able to. I didn't realize it was an entrance to a hunting grounds which was down the road. This group heard the gun shots and in seconds took to the sky
An Eastern Towhee missed the call to fly South is attempting to over Winter here. She appears to be adapting.
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There were thousands of monarchs resting in trees and plants on the south shore of Lake Erie before making the long flight to their winter resting grounds in Mexico.
The Blackpoll Warbler signals and end to migration as they move through. I can't believe how fast time goes......
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After barely seeing any white egrets this entire year I spotted one in a local pond on a day with firgid temps and snowflakes! I figured he was resting up for his migration south and this was his last stop.
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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.
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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.
Our trip to Tanzania was timed to coincide with the return of the annual wildebeest migration from Kenya's Maasai Mara to the Serengeti, which involves many thousands of them crossing the Mara River.
Here, a large group of wildebeest mass on the north bank of the river (whilst a Nile Crocodile waits in the middle).
The hummingbird activity has finally started to accelerate as they prepare to head south for migration. This is just one of several adult males in my backyard.
La actividad de los colibrÃs se ha accelerado finalmente mientras que se preparan para dirigirse al sur para su migración. Éste es sólo uno de los machos que se encuentran en mi patio trasero ahora.
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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It's never hard to find these charismatic birds along the tree line given their distinctive call.
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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.