The autumn of 2022 turned out to be a great time for birding and me. However I didn’t do an excellent job with the follow-up duties: processing my pictures, finishing my stories, and writing about them on this website. Which is why, upon reviewing my pictures from my first post-Previous World outing, I spotted two issues:
- I hadn’t connected a single photograph to my eBird record.
- There have been a whole lot of good photographs in there.
Due to level quantity two, I’ll keep away from my normal wordy exposition, and go straight to the pictures. These are all from Lake Cuitzeo, to which I went to see the migratory waterfowl and shorebirds that had arrived whereas we had been in Spain and the Center East.
I’ll begin with this Cinnamon Teal. Often a fowl photograph is extra concerning the habitat than the fowl itself.
The identical could possibly be stated about this shot of a Northern Shoveler.
There appear to be an unusually massive variety of American Wigeons on the lake this winter. Which is ok… I like American Wigeons.
I’m additionally an enormous fan of birds lining up in pairs for objective of comparability. These two are a Cinnamon Teal and a Blue-winged Teal.
You’ll be able to at all times rely on Northern Pintails being current on the lake in winter.
Ring-billed Gulls are the commonest gulls on the lake. However they not often fly by me at such a detailed distance.
Sadly, Ruddy Geese can’t at all times have vibrant blue payments. However they hold their tails stiff anyway.
After which I got here throughout an American Avocet, who gave me a category within the unusual artwork of Avocet feeding.
Avocets generally line up in a type of sweeping, avian feeding refrain line. A number of pictures from at the present time recommend that Lesser Yellowlegs want the synchronized doubles occasion.
For some purpose, once I see two Purple-tailed Hawks flying collectively down right here, one at all times appears to be a lightweight morph, and the opposite a darkish morph. I respect the range.
As I continued on to the north shore of the lake, a Loggerhead Shrike let me get an unusually shut look.
After that, it was all concerning the shorebirds. Some Western Sandpipers gave me a somewhat poetic take a look at them.
A Semipalmated Plover gave me a glance that pierced my soul.
A Willet flew by, leaving little doubt that it was, in reality, a Willet. This was a little bit of a privilege, since Willets often head straight to the coast within the winter.
However one of many favourite sightings I could have on the lake in winter is of Wilson’s Snipes. A couple of birds appear to exist to assist us chortle.
