August is on the march and I don’t think I’ve had an ideal dragonfly day yet. If you haven’t either, you really need to take advantage of the stellar assortment of odes this time of year offers, at least in my part of the world. What are your plans this weekend and will you be watching birds, butterflies, bugs, blossoms, or anything else of beauty? Share your plans in the comments below.
My weekend seems too jammed with work to allow me to chase dragonflies. If I’m lucky, maybe I can hit Mendon Ponds for a few, photo-filled hours. Corey will be kicking back for a relaxed Saugerties, NY weekend while Charlie will probably be anything but relaxed – he’ll be kicking around Australia and Singapore for many days in a row. Hope he brought his camera.
Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend!
Awesome skies, courtesy of Corey, over Charyn Canyon, Kazakhstan
We’re going to avoid the Starthroat crowds at Patagonia and probably do some shorebirding at Avra Valley, just west of Tucson. We had heavy RAIN last night, at long last, and there should be some good pools out there and some good birds.
Our annual Shorebird Jaunt is coming up this Saturday 15 August. We scour BC’s southern Rocky Mountain Trench (aka East Kootenay Trench) every year at this time in hopes of seeing a good variety of shorebirds – Baird’s, Western, Least, White-rumped, Semi-palmated Sandpipers, the Yellowlegs, Semi-palmated Plover to name the most likely. Last year we chanced upon Lapland Longspurs. Usually it is blazing hot by noon but this year we have had a rainy, thunder-filled August so far.
Maybe looking for crossbills (rare visitors to Northern Ireland) in a forest park just on the edge of Belfast – they have been spotted at the RSPB centre there.
Birds have been a little slow in north central Texas, but grasshoppers, dragonflies, and spiders are jumping.
Come visit ‘Prairie Barrens’ under a hot sky, Click here.
Troy and Martha
Awesome, awesome picture. Truly enjoyed your post and showing me a sight I will never see.
Great scenery.
The sky always seems so dramatic over dessert landscapes. The two different and extreme beauties compliment one another beautifully.
A Eurasian Roller has been seen on and off for the last week at Waghäusel in Germany (where I went last weekend for the herons), so I might try my luck there again.
Great to se a bit of the world that is out of ones normal range. Beautiful sky too.
Heey Mike,
NL watching your skywatchpictures again!!, great composition and lovely colors, also looked a while on your great blog….. |was in Ireland and spotted some Gannets (Sula Bassama), A realy nice Seabird, u know this one?
Have a great SWF