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Recent content by Cindy M

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    Michigans 'River of Raptors'

    hi Becky- sounds great! tell everyone I said hi.. I always told Linda that I thought I could handle birding in Corpus much better in the fall rather than spring, when it's so hot/muggy there. Hope you see many migrants/hawks and looking forward to your trip report when you get back- have fun...
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    Mass Migration: Southbound Hawks setting records

    An occasional osprey or northern harrier trickled past Duluth's Hawk Ridge on Tuesday morning, but all of the talk was about the day before. On Monday, hawk counters and about 150 birders witnessed a raptor movement on a scale never before seen at the ridge. A total of 101,698 broad-winged...
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    Michigans 'River of Raptors'

    During the autumn months, the skies over southeast Michigan are alive with tens of thousands of hawks, eagles, falcons, and other birds of prey. In the fall of 1983, the Lake Erie Metropark Hawk Watch began recording this fall hawk migration over Lake Erie Metropark and Pointe Mouillee State...
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    ID this bird?

    downy woodpecker LOL Janine, we posted at about the same time.. ;)
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    Death's Head Hawk Moth

    what a stunning moth- congrats on the sighting. I can't help but think of the movie "silence of the lambs" :) This moth has been discussed on a US moth-list as of late, where UK members have shared their excitement in their sightings.. it has been rumored to have been documented in North...
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    Michigan

    hi again Mark :) You'll love Joe, he's quite the character. He's got such a great sense of humor and the man literally lives and breathes birds. His knowledge is vast and his daughter is a smart cookie too. She works together with him on many of his presentations/programs. I first became...
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    Michigan

    hi Mark- we have good friends in Dewitt, what a small world. Don't often get down that way, but know the area well.. sounds like you have a lovely piece of land, have never birded Arcadia marsh myself but have heard good things about the area. and yes, there are probably quite a few people that...
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    Another Unknown Caterpillar

    hi Tammie, I looked through my caterpillar guides but was unable to find a match to your image. You may want to check this url, since many of these caterpillars are in your range: Caterpillars of Eastern Forests You might also try writing my friend Lynn Scott, who has the most comprehensive...
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    Butterfly Cycle Collage (1 Photo)

    I dont think there is anything more amazing in nature than the life cycle of a butterfly/moth- and certainly nothing more beautiful than a monarch crysalis, etched in gold leafing. Beautiful collage :)
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    Moth ID, please

    hi Birdwatcher, your moth is a Beautiful Wood-Nymph (Eudryas grata)- a member of the Noctuidae family, a bird dropping mimic. They're quite a striking moth & we've had good numbers of them here this year. The white appendages are indeed their legs, and they habitually roll their wings up when at...
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    I'm not sure what this is

    I hold the same opinion as Van on this bird. I view Bald Eagles on a regular basis and this bird does not have the plumage of a B. eagle- not to mention the beak size/shape. The head shape also doesn't match up well. I took the liberty of copying the initial photo and lightened it a bit and...
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    Birding on Borrowed Time -

    Andrew, if you're unable to order the book from Amazon.com , drop me a line at [email protected] and I'll see if I can get a copy to you somehow. When possible, I order my books from ABA or Michigan Audubon Society, so that I'm contributing to the welfare of birds with my purchase. Amazon.com...
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    hummingbird hawk-moth

    this is a Hummingbird Clearwing Moth (Hemaris thysbe)- member of the same family of moths but a totally different species. Hope this helps :)
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    hummingbird hawk-moth

    hi Nora. Your description sounds like a Nessus Sphinx Moth (Amphion floridensis) one of the diurnal moths in the sphingidae family- here is a recent image of one that I took on a lakeshore. Note the two yellow stripes on the abdomen- the wings are a bit blurry because they beat them constantly...
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    Red Saddlebags and the Dunkle book...

    enjoyed your images Richard, saddlebags are great! A couple other good guides you may find helpful are: Dragonflies of Indiana- said to have better images than Dunkles guide, one I haven't looked at myself yet. You can read more about it here: http://www.franklincoll.edu/bioweb/curry/ and...
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