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Talk about being at the right place at the right time. Pretty cool.One chilly spring morning, amateur bird photographer
Kathrin Swoboda captured shots of a red-winged
blackbird “forming smoke rings with his Spring song.”
Kathrin Swoboda PhotographyInteresting display where our precious little Great Lakes Piping Plover fits in and habitats with it “kissing cousins” around North America and beyond.As breeding season comes near an end, some of our Great Lakes piping plovers have already departed for their wintering grounds. Within a few weeks nearly all of them will have done so. While plovers from all three populations can be found across the whole of the winter range, did you know each population has a region where they predominately winter? This illustration by Megan Bishop for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology shows something of this phenomenon. Most Northern Great Plains breeders winter in Texas, Lousiana and northern Mexico. Many Atlantic breeders go to the Bahamas or Florida and a large percentage of our Great Lakes plovers winter in South Carolina and Georgia (though there are a significant number on the Gulf Coast of Florida as well).
Wildlife never ceases to amaze us. Even if these 56 are just a Merganser’s “Duckie day-care center” on water.
'Super mom' spotted on a Minnesota lake — with 56 ducklings in tow
mnn.com
(And that number has since grown to 76!)
Monthly Archives: July 2018
Piping Plovers 2018
2018 Piping Plover Season- Oscoda/AuSable By Peggy Ridgway This season proved to be interesting, challenging and rewarding. Interesting because this was the only known nest site on the Lake Huron side of the U.S. It was located on … Continue reading
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