Sidewalk Series: Magnolia Warbler

I found this guy a this morning in roughly the same place I've found so many other exhausted migrants. It's not a great picture because it was taken with a Sony P200 at 13.7mm and 1/4" shutter speed, supported on the ledge next to the bird. I was able to move the bird to a bush to recover after taking a few shots.

Beautiful Bird, Well captured!

Thanks so much.

Here's a link to a few other unusual sidewalk birds I've gotten over the last few years.

http://www.flickr.com …721576001942335​66/detail/

I am glad you moved him. Most people would just walk around it. Great shot too. Did it hit the building?

Good for you Rubberhead. The world is a better place because of people like you.

canonloader wrote in post #5470205
I am glad you moved him. Most people would just walk around it. Great shot too. Did it hit the building?

I have found some dead or stunned birds in the same area but he seemed like he was just exhausted. A lot of times, ones that collide will have a crease in their bills kind of like when some one gets a fingernail bent back. There weren't any feathers knocked out either.

csquared63 wrote in post #5470445
Good for you Rubberhead. The world is a better place because of people like you.

Thanks but I wonder how many such birds in the wild fall prey to natural and feral predators.

The worst culprit is standing radio towers with wires and tall, lit buildings. It's estimated a billion birds are killed every migration. It's less likey a bird will exhaust itself flying over woods where it can land anywhere, any time. It must be very tiring to fly over a stinky, hot, fouled city where you don't know what the hell is down there.

canonloader wrote in post #5472819
The worst culprit is standing radio towers with wires and tall, lit buildings. It's estimated a billion birds are killed every migration. It's less likey a bird will exhaust itself flying over woods where it can land anywhere, any time. It must be very tiring to fly over a stinky, hot, fouled city where you don't know what the hell is down there.

I, firmly, believe that cities are the biggest ecological disasters we've ever created.

I really believe, too, that future cities will be nothing more than centers for culture, the arts and entertainment without the need for the masses of information workers that clog the roads, burn large percentages of our annual oil usage, and produce millions of tons of carbon dioxide and other pollutants.

Rubberhead wrote in post #5473057
I, firmly, believe that cities are the biggest ecological disasters we've ever created.

I really believe, too, that future cities will be nothing more than centers for culture, the arts and entertainment without the need for the masses of information workers that clog the roads, burn large percentages of our annual oil usage, and produce millions of tons of carbon dioxide and other pollutants.

AMEN to that, brother. The only way it will change is if we make a concerted effort to educate our kids to be stewards of nature from an early age.

Check out this Migration Game from The National Audubon Society ... http://ny.audubon.org/​missionmigration.html

The problem is our unrestrained breeding, tax incentives to have kids for gawds sake. There has not been a need for more humans on this planet since the 8th or 9th century. We need some serious education on the advantages of birth control. Before it's forced on us.