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A Monarch butterfly feeds at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York, on its way to Mexico for the winter.
It appears to me that the Monarchs have moved on from our area this week pushing further south in the annual migration. I caught this one last week in a street side garden while walking on a street in Des Moines. (Wrong camera, wrong lens, but lots of luck.) I'll be looking for them again next spring.
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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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 Eastern Towhee missed the call to fly South is attempting to over Winter here. She appears to be adapting.
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.
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This i take on my property ,they look for place to sleep-over .
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).
Bevor die Gnus sich endlich entscheiden, den Mara River auf ihrer jährlichen Wanderung durch die Serengeti zu überqueren, spielen sich am Ufer teilweise dramatische Situationen ab. Die möglichen Crossing-Points werden dabei immer wieder panisch gewechselt. Diese Situation kann sich über Stunden hinziehen. Hunderte Tiere sind somit ständig in Bewegung.
Before the wildebeest finally decide to cross the Mara River on their annual migration through the Serengeti, sometimes dramatic situations play out on the banks. The possible crossing points are changed again and again in panic. This situation can last for hours. Hundreds of animals are thus constantly on the move.
Kenia - Masai Mara
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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.
The Blackpoll Warbler signals and end to migration as they move through. I can't believe how fast time goes......
.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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