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I'm cleaning up my hard drive and find the one or the other treasure, who still slumbers there. This is a picture from a country before our time: I recorded this morning mood in September 2019 - when the birds started the journey home in the spring, we lived in another world (which the birds has less interested in)...
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.
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.
Collage composed of 2 photos
The Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis) belongs to the genus Branta of black geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species.
The Barnacle Goose is a medium-sized goose, 55 - 70 cm long, with a wingspan of 130 - 145 cm and a weight of 1.2 - 2.2 kg. It has a white face and black head, neck, and upper breast. Its belly is white. The wings and its back are silver-gray with black-and-white bars that look like they are shining when the light reflects on it. It flies in packs and long lines, with a noisy chorus of barking or yapping sounds.
Barnacle geese feed on grasses and coastal plants found in salt marshes, grasslands near river estuaries or tidal mud flats.
The wintering population (130.000 birds) in the Netherlands breeds in Arctic Russia and the Baltic.
This picture was taken at the Lauwersmeer, a man-made lake in the north of the Netherlands, on the border of the provinces of Groningen and Friesland. The lake was formed on 1969, when the dike between the bay called Lauwerssea" and the Waddensea was closed. The Lauwersmeer is now one of the famoust birding areas in Western Europe. The area is famous for the huge numbers of birds. During the winter months the Lauwersmeer is famous for the huge numbers of geese. You will see thousands of Barnacle Geese, White Fronted Geese, Greylag Geese and also good numbers of Bean Geese, Brant, Tundra Swan and Whooper Swan.
De brandgans (Branta leucopsis) is een sterke ongeveer 60 cm grote gans, die weinig of geen last ondervindt van vriesweer, met geelachtige witte kop, waarvan de achterzijde zwart is, met een zwarte nek en bovenborst. Als deze gans tijdens de winter aan de Nederlandse kust opduikt, worden ze al vlug verraden door het wit van hun wangen dat fel afsteekt op het zwart van de kop en hals.
Hun broedgebied is het noordelijk deel van de Atlantische Oceaan, van de oostkust van Groenland tot Spitsbergen en het zuiden van Nova Zembla. Het wintergebied bevindt zich vooral aan de kusten van Ierland, de westkust van Schotland en de Noordzeekust van Duitsland en Nederland.
De Nederlandse overwinteraars komen vooral van Nova Zembla.
De laatste jaren blijven grote groepen brandganzen in Nederland en zijn dus het hele jaar door op Nederlandse graslanden te vinden.
Deze foto is genomen bij het Lauwersmeer, op de grens van Groningen en Friesland bij de Waddenzee. Jaarlijks met meer dan 100.000 vogels een van de grootste en belangrijkste overwinterengebieden voor brandganzen in Nederland.
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Mostly white morphs with three juveniles and two blue morphs. Looking closely, the one blue morph in the middle of the frame has an interesting eye, some kind of hybrid perhaps.
Ring-billed gulls are migrating south from their breeding grounds in northern Minnesota and Canada now as the lakes up there start to freeze over. The Mississippi River is a major bird migration corridor and the ring-billed gulls were joined by ducks, geese and swans numbering in the tens of thousands today.
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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Trumpeter Swans against a stormy sky. Trumpeter Swans migrate from up north, down to the more southerly areas of North America where they will stay the milder winters.
Composite Image changed to Blk & white and added a slight painterly simplify filter.
Taken at Cowichan Lake, Vancouver Island, B.C., on Oct 25/15 at 11:31am on a dreary dark day.
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With the last three days of cold showery weather it brought down lots of migrating geese in our area. Sturgeon County Alberta
The spectacle of the annual winter migration of the Elk Herds from the Rocky Mountain Foothills towards the Ranch Country just Northwest of Calgary.
ODC-Groups
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.
It was so exciting to come upon these migrating shorebirds! I walked along the stony beach for some time before realizing there was movement on the ground and then discovered dozens of these sweet plovers scurrying busily amongst the kelp.
So many people were walking on the Shinsaibashi Street, Osaka, Japan.
Don’t know where they come from and where they go. But I felt like they all had a same goal and moving together.
I love capturing birds in their habitat. I think I prefer it than a close-up when the surrounding is suitable. This Palm Warbler looked really good in that tree with all the new buds. It sure feels like spring.
I've learned a bit more about my graphics program and was able to tweak the contrast more to my liking on this image. One of my fav monarch shots over the years. I'm saddened by the losses in the monarch population (and other less beloved species) and hope we can work toward restoring habitat and reducing the effects of pesticides and climate change.
A bull elk moving his cows across the valley in the Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, Colorado.
Yellow Warblers are established breeding migrants in the Ottawa area. The Britannia conservation area is packed with them, and their behaviour is quite striking. On the one hand, the males are super aggressive, as they try to establish territory and begin mating. The birds sing, attract competitors, and then chase each other to try to take over the territory. Once the chase is on, the males make a chipping sound, and the less assertive males seek cover. This hormonally-charged and somewhat manic process is an aspect of what makes the spring migration harder from a photography perspective; the birds heading south after a breeding season in the boreal forest are more tuckered out and content to find a food source.
Meanwhile the females who are mating begin the process of building nests. The materials are very delicate, for the most part, including the strips of plant material seen here. Other elements include feathers and even spider webs.
Just as the mating and very territorial Red-winged Blackbirds drive off other birds, here including Orioles and Rose-breasted Grosbeaks, the Yellow Warblers will drive off other warbler species. As most others are passing through on their way north, that is less of an issue, although in a year like this one, where there seem to be more Yellow Warblers than in recent years, and perhaps fewer of the other species, that makes it harder for bird watchers keen to follow the migration event.
The mass migration of Tundra and Trumpeter swans happened earlier this year. These appear to all Trumpeters flying with the Yukon River in the background.
One has to see the phenomenon called "migration" to believe it. This year round activity that involves wildebeest, zebras and gazelles is so enormous - There are no words that can describe it. One can see herd of animals from miles away because of the dust cloud it generates. When you are surrounded by so many animals and so much action, as a photographer you are unable to decide what to capture.
Inspired by a gorgeous image from Fort Photo Night-gration.
Last week we had this beautiful sky at dusk.. and I had previously gotten a shot of migrating geese, but the sky was rather bland and lifeless behind the geese. I took the two shots and combined them into this composite. I hope you like it.
I'm sure you've noticed I'm framing my photos recently.. Unfortunately I've found it necessary to somehow identify my own photos, there are a few people here on Flickr that have been copying others images and claiming them as there own.
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