Mastodawn

First redstart rhis year seen here today, a male chiding me from top of a neighbour's shed (51.6 10.4, central Germany).

#Spring #BirdMigration

oldguy52 - resist, live, love 4d ago

Migration is picking up! You can check status of migration with BirdCast Dashboard (in the US - there must be equivalents in EU ...). Cornell has other tools to monitor migration. Note on the Dashboard that they post migrants and their timelines, along with analysis of flight and a Probability Density Function and Cumulative Density Function of where we are in the season. Check with your local Nature Center to find out what they are seeing in the woods. Most of the Naturalists will take a morning walk to check for new arrivals.

A volunteer work day today on rickety knees - getting more difficult to walk any distance, and that is making me progressively more cranky. The only birding I get is vicarious if any birds drop by while I work.

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Deborah Edwards-Oñoro 6d ago

Busy night for spring bird migration in Cook County, Illinois: an estimated 1/2 million birds crossed the county.

cc @chris

https://dashboard.birdcast.org/region/US-IL-031?night=2026-03-28

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Cook County, Illinois - Night of Mar 28, 2026 - Migration Dashboard - BirdCast

Explore nightly migration data in your region

Maikel de Bakker Mar 25

A Friday morning, a familiar place, and the promise of sunrise.

At Huys ter Heide, just as the sun began to rise, I found myself standing by a small lake. The water was perfectly still—no wind, no ripples—turning it into a natural mirror. The sun, still low on the horizon and partially hidden, painted the scene in deep yellows, oranges, and blacks. A quiet moment where light and reflection became one.

Scenes like this are a reminder of how much timing matters. A single breath of wind would have broken the illusion.

Not long after, two cranes rested near the water’s edge during their journey north. A rare and beautiful sight… but sometimes nature gives, and sometimes it takes away. A passerby startled them before I could capture the moment.

And that’s okay. The memory remains.

Captured with my Canon EOS 5D Mark IV and Sigma 100–400mm, 250mm, 1/500 sec, ISO 100.

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oskevxplore Mar 10

A little flash of yellow in the backyard

Pine warbler 📸🐦

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Historic Concrete Mar 5

Lessor Black-backed Gull ‘RHRF’, Havergate Island, Suffolk. Ringed there as a chick in 2016. Next sighting was El Jadifa, Morocco in March 2020, then seen back annually on Havergate since 2021. #nature #birds #gulls #birdmigration

Deborah Edwards-Oñoro Feb 24

Whee!

"Hummingbird Central's 2026 Hummingbird Spring Migration Map shows ruby-throated hummingbirds currently in Florida, Louisiana and Texas, according to the interactive map."

https://www.hometownlife.com/story/news/local/michigan/2026/02/23/are-hummingbirds-flying-north-see-migration-map/88820931007/

#BirdMigration #hummingbird

Hummingbirds fly north. When will they return to Michigan?

An interactive map shows ruby-throated hummingbirds are currently in the southern U.S. Here's how to track their flight north.

Observer and Eccentric Newspapers and Hometown Weeklies

Historic Concrete Feb 23

Herring gull ‘VNF’. Ringed as a chick on Havergate Island, Suffolk, on 27.6.14. Recorded on Guernsey, Channel Islands, in Aug 2014 then the French Atlantic coast in Feb 2015 and the following two winters. Recorded back at Havergate in April 2017, were all subsequent sightings have been recorded except for a record from Dungeness, Kent on 03.03.18. #birds #gulls #birdmigration

ChrQue Feb 10

Nine cranes, one imposter

Red kite and Common Cranes / Rotmilan und Kraniche (Worms, Germany)

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