huronmtns
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The very common American Goldfinch.
Camera action while being outdoors enjoying the fresh air and adventure. Feel free to add yours too.
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Where are you from? Where are you scouting (state or region)?
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Black-throated Blue Warbler.
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Southeastern Washington, Have seen 5 nice bucks in that area. Spotted some others off the Palouse river too. Found a nice 7 point non-typical whitetail shed. Crossing my fingers he survived the winter.
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This Goldfinch is in the breeding molt plumage change.
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Honestly, I feel we are lucky right near the shoreline of Lake Superior. It forms a boundary that buys us time while they are feeding heavily for the calories to make the flight across the lake. Last year I experienced a day that I lost count of the bird species I saw. I had no camera to capture the action. An example last year was a Scarlet Tanager, I had never seen one in my life, and that bird hung around for hours on a bright sunny day. Great photo conditions for birds. There were more warblers last year as well but you almost need a photo to properly identify them correctly. This year the camera has been riding along with me. The migration has been slower this year across the different species. And no Scarlet Tanager while I have the camera! The tree leaves have filled in quite a bit and the mosquitos are out in full force. I'm pretty sure the bird pictures are going to slow down from me. The leaves make it challenging and the mosquitos take the fun out of the time required to be near motionless to get the photos. Thanks for the recognition of the warbler variety coming through the area.
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As dumb as this sounds. I have a trophy that I am trying to photo in the UP. A Boreal Chickadee. A brown color cap vs the black cap on the Black-capped Chickadee. A rare bird for this area and a very subtle difference in appearance. I still have not confirmed seeing one and certainly haven't photographed one. Some serious non-meat eating hunting!
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Our warbler migration was weak this year. Thanks for sharing the photos!
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I got lucky yesterday and ran into a pair of Brown Thrasher. They are not common in this area. They are about as close to Roadrunners as we can get in the UP.
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American Crow. Certainly not a dumb species.
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I am not an entomologist. If there is anybody out there that wants to add some educational color to these photos please do so. Butterflies, bees, and flies, is as deep as I can take us. Wildlife with no red meat! but are beneficial as pollinators to help sustain the plants needed for our hunted game.
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Lake Superior Mallards just hanging out.
Are my identification markings showing (male): olive colored bill, greenhead, white ring around neck, chestnut colored breast, gray barred body, white-black-blue wing bands, dark tail curl, and white tail feathers?
Are my identification markings showing (male): olive colored bill, greenhead, white ring around neck, chestnut colored breast, gray barred body, white-black-blue wing bands, dark tail curl, and white tail feathers?
Hunting Wife
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First one looks like one of the swallowtail species. White one maybe a cabbage butterfly, last one possibly a monarch or a viceroy. Not much help on the others.
The native prairie aficionado in me, however, is highly distracted by the leafy spurge!
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A Pine Squirrel in pursuit of the pollen cones on a White Spruce that have not opened up yet. There were some gutsy moves made to get to the terminal end of the branches where these cones were growing.
To eat one of the pollen cones the squirrel had to go back somewhere safe to eat it.
To eat one of the pollen cones the squirrel had to go back somewhere safe to eat it.
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Last night I went out for a walk along one of Marquette's rivers. I will have to say it was an adventure.
First thing of interest that I ran into.
Lady's Slipper
A few photos of the river showing how steep the banks are making it challenging to fish.
Marquette has only had one known location of Poison Ivy that was a small patch of it along the lower harbor shoreline. Then I ran into a new discovery. Now the Poison Ivy risks just went up because I found a thick patch of it that is growing on a gravel wash out area along the river. I have never been worried about Ivy while fishing any UP streams. That has now changed. I guess this corner of the river will be named Poison Ivy Bend. I just know there are going to be people burned at this spot.
A close up view of the vegetation on the river bank (dominated by the Poison Ivy).
I sure hope no one is fishing with shorts on walking the navigational bank of the river!
First thing of interest that I ran into.
Lady's Slipper
A few photos of the river showing how steep the banks are making it challenging to fish.
Marquette has only had one known location of Poison Ivy that was a small patch of it along the lower harbor shoreline. Then I ran into a new discovery. Now the Poison Ivy risks just went up because I found a thick patch of it that is growing on a gravel wash out area along the river. I have never been worried about Ivy while fishing any UP streams. That has now changed. I guess this corner of the river will be named Poison Ivy Bend. I just know there are going to be people burned at this spot.
A close up view of the vegetation on the river bank (dominated by the Poison Ivy).
I sure hope no one is fishing with shorts on walking the navigational bank of the river!
huronmtns
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Birds are now doing lots of singing. It must be that the leaves are making them tough to locate and harder to photograph.
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