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Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area, PA
According to the "Migration Update", I took a day off and went there before sunrise, because the birds will take off around the sunrise. When they took off, and passed me over head, and that was what they were, moon and geese. This was the only one they are in the perfect position, others were in either sides of the moon.
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Migration
Au grès des courants
Pour découvrir , le meilleurs temps
Les oiseaux se déplacent
En survolant de si grands espaces
Indifférent à notre présence
Ils filent vivre leur jolie romance
J' aime les observer
Avec le plus grand des respects
Domi
I've noticed so many Monarch Butterflies in the past couple of weeks. They seem to be fueling up for their long migration south.
Not a complete loss ... got to see a few of these fast and furious and hungry fall warblers. Not the best shot, but the best I could do with this beautiful Yellow Warbler.
Manawatu Estuary.
The banded dotterel is the most common small plover of New Zealand seashores, estuaries and riverbeds. Although their plumage varies seasonally, they are readily identified by their brown upperparts and complete or partial chestnut breast band, the latter being quite striking in breeding plumage. Like other typical plovers, the body is held erect and they have a characteristic run-stop-peck-run foraging behaviour in their pursuit of small invertebrates.
Inland-breeding birds undertake a post-breeding migration to estuaries and other coastal wetlands the length of New Zealand and many also travel to Tasmania and south-east mainland Australia in an unusual east-west migration.
It is the only North American sandpiper whose breeding range extends southward into the tropics. This find this morning was a lifer for me. Isle Lake County of Parkland.
Poznan, Poland
Sw. MArcin
Spring
Headign to the tram home yesterday I was inspired by the flood of people into the streets just after the storm had passed. I enjoy this low dof and the sense of movement i creates. I also often contemplate the idea of being "grounded" and often when I am not I tend to look at our connection to one another and the earth we walk on a bit more...like now.
My photo taken at Cape May NJ which is a prime spot for birds, butterflies and birders in the fall of the year.
Textures from Lenabem-Anna and Sunset Sailor.
Edited with On1 software.
If you have seen this before on another flickr site, I apologize. Last spring I made a site for my more "artsy" images, but I am going to gradually close out that site, so I will be posting the photos here instead.
Discussing whether or not they should head North.
It was a disappointing day at Bosque del Apache NWR yesterday. Most of the birds have flown North already. I saw a couple herons, a couple roadrunners and a hawk. There were a pair of bald eagles in a dead tree in the middle of one of the larger ponds, but my 100-400mm just isn't quite enough lens....
...it was a beautiful day though and while it was disappointing photographically it was a nice day out with my son. We finally found some birds at a pond on a farm just outside the refuge. The farmer had graciously left the gate open and there were more photographers there than anywhere in the refuge.
Definitely will make my trip down south earlier in the season next fall. Seeing as how I live less than a 2 hour drive away I could make more than one trip.
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Prothonotary Warbler
Protonotaria citrea
Patuxent Research Refuge
Laurel, Maryland, Anne Arundel County
Laurel Quad
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seasonal migration.
abstract macro tree art.
looks like a group of birds migrating over the tree line.
macro photograph of a silver birch tree.
gotts park woodland,
west leeds, leeds.
Wildebeest and zebra cross a shallow lagoon, on their journey from central Serengeti to Ndutu. We viewed this spectacle enthralled at the sheer beauty and vastness of the Serengeti.
Migration 205.365
Warsaw, Poland
Spring
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Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Missouri, USA, established in 1935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife.
Unfortunately it was an overcast day. There were thousands of these creatures there today and they lined the waterways like pebbles on the shore. A fascinating sight to see.
I hope everyone had a great Christmas! One thing we really wanted to see in Mexico was the Monarch Butterfly migration. It took researchers over 40 years to figure out where the monarchs were going during the winter. For years, they tagged thousands of butterflies but they could never figure out where they went. Finally, they figured out they were going to central Mexico and by serendipidty the researcher found one of his tagged butterflies at this spot. What's even more amazing is that the first generation flies from Mexico to the US and lays their eggs. The next generation goes even further north into the US and Canada. The third generation then returns to Mexico and the whole cycle starts again. I don't know how these butterflies know where to go two generations removed!
For this shot, we had to hike up to the top of a steep hill since the butterflies only congregate at a specific altitude on one type of tree. It wasn't touristy at all - we only saw 2 other tourists the whole day! To really show how many butterflies there were, we decided to take a shot of Evelyn surrounded by the butterflies. They would move so fast that they blurred even at 1/1600th sec. But the blurred action kind of gave the shot a dreamy look.
Goal was to use a slow shutter to blur out the whole photo and still keep the swans head some what sharp. with this photo I used a 1/25th shutter speed which for a 500 mm 4.0 lens is pretty slow. I used my tripod and panned the shot.
I had to heavily crop the photo because this species is small and the individual remained at some distance. But it's a lifer, so I'm happy anyway.
These Red Knots were just amazing to see in large numbers at Plum Island yesterday. Here they're pictured with turnstones as they continue their massive northward migration.
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Canon 7D | 400mm f/5.6L
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Red Knots and Ruddy Turnstones | Sandy Point, Plum Island, MA