Atlantic Brant’s are back for a pit stop before heading north. More pictures from this morning’s walk here.
If you’ve never heard the call of an Atlantic Brant, listen here. “The Atlantic brant makes a low, guttural ruk-ruk sound, and its call pattern is flat, rising, and undulating. Brant also make a guttural crrrronk when flying or on the ground, and a shorter, sharper cruk alarm call. (via Google)”
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Wonderful photos Dave.
As always, thanks for sharing the beauty!
Meanwhile… Approximately 350 miles north of you near the Canadian border… the current temperature is 19° with a windchill of 11°. And the national weather service has issued the following wonderful news:
“Winter Storm Warnings and Winter Weather Advisories in Effect
A storm system will bring widespread heavy snow to the area tonight into Saturday night. Northern/central VT and northern NY will receive 8 to 18 inches of snow, while the St Lawrence Valley will get 5 to 8 inches.”
Mother nature never ceases to amaze, inspire, and annoy… 🙂
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It’s incredible how different the weather can be if you drive six hours north!
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Wow Paul. Wow. I need to stop complaining!
“current temperature is 19° with a windchill of 11°. And the national weather service has issued the following wonderful news:
“Winter Storm Warnings and Winter Weather Advisories in Effect
A storm system will bring widespread heavy snow to the area tonight into Saturday night. Northern/central VT and northern NY will receive 8 to 18 inches of snow, while the St Lawrence Valley will get 5 to 8 inches.”
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Gorgeous light and those lovely Brant’s!
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yes! Love those Brant’s Dina!
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We have huge flogs of brant geese here as well in our marshes, flogs of several thousand birds. We love it when the fly over our house.
Have a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Flogs of several thousand birds. THAT must be Something Klaus. Thanks for sharing. Dave
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Dear David
we live in one of the oldest and biggest bird sancturies in the UK. Birds from the Arctic overwinter here and some stay even. We have sometimes flogs of up to 25.000 of grey and pink foot geese. Now most of these geese are gone.
Happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Thanks for sharing Klaus. Must be wonderful to live amidst so much wildlife. Sorry about the geese. Have a nice weekend. Dave
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We get the black brant here on the Pacific side, and also about this time of year. Ours have black bellies while yours have beige ones. Lovely to see them.
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Amazing creatures…all of them.
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Their sound is really very cute…as are their little butts when they go looking for fish (or whatever) in the pond. I wonder if that’s where the phrase ‘bottoms up’ comes from…🥴
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Let’s go with it! Love the hypothesis!
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Smiling … all is well when nature comes through yet again ❣️
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So agree Val.
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What a delightfully noisy bunch they are! And ta for the video link – nice too….. We spend our weekend in a special place too, high above a beautiful and large lake. But the WIND! A killer, and the weather changes every 5 minutes. Lost already an umbrella in the rain-wind competition. And so beautiful!
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“We spend our weekend in a special place too, high above a beautiful and large lake.” Sounds amazing!
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It is…. if only the long, steep way up wasn’t so long and steep! And ‘at the end’ the 60+ steps….
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Smiling. All worth it Kiki!
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