We start the week off with Albatrossity, of course, followed by slipz, BillinGlendaleCA, and UncleEbeneezer. On Friday, we let’s welcome a first-time submitter to On the Road: Christopher Mathews, who will take us to Iceland to see puffins!
Albatrossity
Week 7 of the 2021 installment of Spring in Flyover Country has the first young birds of the season, indicating that spring migration is pretty much over. So maybe we can do Summer in Flyover Country for a week or so, if I can get out and get some pics of more birds representing the next generation!
These American Avocets (Recurvirostra americana) are only migrating through this part of Kansas, since there are no large marshes to host them for the summer. But they do stay and produce babies in the marshes in the central part of the state, and occasionally, in wetter years, in the playa wetlands in SW Kansas. Here we get to see them in their stunning alternate (breeding) finery, with a rust-colored head to set off the stark black-and-white body and wing plumage.
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