This rare to Vermont
🪶American White Pelican flew right over my head in 2023.
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A 🪶Dunlin searches for breakfast on the widening mudflats during a stop in its southward migration.
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#LandMeetsWater
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🪶Hudsonian Godwits are occasional visitors to Vermont on their southward migration and one usually finds them #StandingInWater feeding.
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Back in 2020, this 🪶Common Ringed Plover somehow found its way across the pond and into Vermont to delight the birders who were diligent and patient enough to pick it out amongst all the migrating Semipalmated Plovers.
#BirdOfTheDay #SteppingOut #MissisquoiNWR #VermontBirds
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Bare trees and branches are mirrored in reflection on the still water of the Black Creek. Small pockets of snow are seen on the ground. White puffy clouds fill the blue sky.
Stick Season reflection
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This particular 🪶Wilson’s Snipe is well known for perching on the electrical wires in front of the #MissisquoiNWR Visitor Center. #BirdOfTheDay #BirdOnAWire
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#Fighting???
Nope! These lovely 🪶Blue-winged Teal were only participating in some friendly springtime copulation.
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This migrating 🪶Sanderling seems to be in a tug-of-war with its #lunchtime meal. #BirdOfTheDay #VermontBirds
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Back in 2019, this 🪶White Pelican showed up and spent some time with the gulls at the #MissisquoiNWR. It was a treat to get to paddle out to the delta to see it multiple times. #BirdOfTheDay #FlyDay
#flying
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A Great Egret, a large beautifully plumaged white bird with a long yellow beak and long black legs, stands on a log in the middle of the water at the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge.
This 🪶Great Egret at the #MissisquoiNWR is today’s #BirdOfTheDay since it’s beautifully plumaged in #White.
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Today’s #BirdOfTheDay is any bird in #ClassicMono. This 🪶Red-necked Phalarope and its buddies were foraging in the shallows of #LakeChamplain at the #MissisquoiNWR during their fall migration a few years back.
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The Jeep Trail passes through the lovely verdant floodplain forest along the Missisquoi River.
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a Sanderling, a white and gray streaked shorebird, pulls a red worm out of the mudflats where it is foraging
A migrating 🪶Sanderling fattening up for its further journey south.
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A Peregrine Falcon perches on a small branch on the mudflats looking for a shorebird to snag for lunch.
A 🪶Peregrine Falcon staking out the mudflats at #MissisquoiNWR this morning
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Lookout Point is the end of the Maquam Trail at Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge. It is surrounded by water and wetlands and floodplain forest and is scenic any day of the year.
A beautiful morning at the #MissisquoiNWR in #Vermont
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The still water of Maquam Creek reflects the blue sky and distant green trees.
Maquam Creek on the #MissisquoiNWR
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#BlueSkyArtShow
#GetOutside
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A large grassy green field sits under a blue sky with puffy white clouds.
A #Vermont summer day!
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The silhouettes of trees are shown against a nighttime sky.
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