Annual Migration Day At Lighthouse Park
Photo Highlights by [mf]
The Butterfly Garden at Lighthouse Point Park |
These Caterpillars are in transition, in the ceiling of this incubator, on their way to becoming Monarch Butterflies |
Learning about butterflies at Lighthouse Park |
Along this trail, in the distance, are almost invisible nets, set up today to tag birds |
New Haven Hawk Watch volunteer carefully frees a warbler from the net, in order to identify and tag it |
Carefully handling a warbler for identification |
Ready to pull a bird out of the weighing bag |
New Haven Bird Club, gently blowing, to inspect the bird through its feathers |
A Grackle is now banded, and ready to go |
Brenda Lyons from Horizon Wings, discussing the finer points of Peregrine Falcons |
Horizon Wings discusses falcons at Lighthouse Park in New Haven, CT |
This Golden Eagle has a wingspan of ten feet! |
A Golden Eagle up close |
Golden Eagle Head Shot – by Mike Franzman – Click Here to view more Migration Day photos
All Photographs © Mike Franzman but sharing is enthusiastically encouraged |