This Veery is a forest thrush & Yard-Lifer for our urban yard deep in metro-Atlanta. Veeries are long-distance migrants. They spend the summer in the forests of Canada & northern U.S. (& a few at the highest elevations of the southern Appalachian Mts) & winter in central and southern Brazil. To make this trip, they […]
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Try being a bird. Want more pain? Try being a migrant bird. On their highly evolved natural calendars, spring, as measured by the First Leaf and First Bloom Indices is leaping forward not by hours but by days or even weeks. Our spring insect emergence, a natural event that migrant birds rely on, started in […]
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Cedar Waxwings are notorious fruit and berry eaters. Zoologists consider them among the most frugivorous birds – a bird that thrives mostly on fruit and fruit-like produce of plants – in North America. Even their name is a reference to their frugivorous diets, they especially love cedar berries. In the fall large flocks can descend […]
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Red-headed Woodpeckers are striking North American woodpeckers. But their gorgeous looks have not kept them off the Partners In Flight’s Yellow Watch List, the list of species that require constant monitoring and long-term assessment to prevent further declines. In their case, further declines from the current 1%\year or 54% in total since mid-1960s. They are […]
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Large flocks of ‘Fall’ migrating Sandhill Cranes are no longer just using the farm fields of middle GA as a stopover, some are staying for the winter. Historically, eastern Sandhill Cranes fly to the Florida prairies for the winter. One exception is a population that winters near the Okefenokee Swamp & the Grand Bay Wildlife […]
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This post is for OM System OM-1 Mark 1 (OM-1) users. It documents most of my OM-1 settings, particularly for exposure and auto focus, and, in some cases, the rationale for choosing them. My intent is to provide context so that readers can decide if a setting choice aligns with their desired outcomes and\or shooting […]
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