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By MyBlogger - August 25, 2015

America’s Great Outdoors Tumblr updates

It’s American Eagle Day, a day that celebrates America’s national symbol – the Bald Eagle – and its dramatic comeback from the brink of extinction. In this amazing photo, an eagle flies from its nest at Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee. Photo by Don Holland (www.sharetheexperience.org).🇺🇸🇺🇸

Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge lies in northern Utah, where the Bear River flows into the northeast arm of the Great Salt Lake. The Refuge protects the marshes found at the mouth of the Bear River, providing a critical habitat for migrating birds. More than 250 species move through this area annually by the millions to rest and feed, including this group of baby burrowing owls pictured here. Photo by Katie McVey, USFWS.

It’s not every day you catch a bird posing for your photo mid-flight.Photo from Glacier Bay National Park by Michael Hogan @ TizzyLish Photography

If you look closely enough, you can see eastern screech owls like this one in many national parks and wildlife refuges across the country.Photo: Steve Gifford, USFWS

Happy Pollinators Week! These hard-working animals help pollinate over 75% of our flowering plants, and nearly 75% of our crops. Often we may not notice the hummingbirds, bats, bees, beetles, butterflies, and flies that carry pollen from one plant to another as they collect nectar. Yet without them, wildlife would have fewer nutritious berries and seeds, and we would miss many fruits, vegetables, and nuts, like blueberries, squash, and almonds … not to mention chocolate and coffee…all of which depend on pollinators. To learn more, click here.Here’s a cool photo of two hummingbirds doing battle over territory at the Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge.Photo: Sarah Chah

Here’s a great photo to end the week. Dennis Demcheck a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) employee, snapped this great photo of a female Great Horned Owl nesting in a Live Oak tree. Here’s what he had to say about it. “She was ‘staring me down’ because she had eggs to protect. It was taken in southwest Louisiana in the Mermentau River Basin near the town of Thornwell.”

Two Sandhill Cranes flying over a wetland in Great Sand Dunes National Park earlier this month.Photo: Patrick Myers

Tom Turkeys are gobbling and strutting now as the courtship season begins in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. You may encounter the birds displaying along park roadways, so please slow down and watch for wildlife—and other visitor’s cars stopped due to wildlife! Be especially cautious when going around blind curves. As this photo shows, sometimes the birds will display right in the center of the roadway… and they are NOT interested in moving out of your way anytime soon!The gobbles of male turkeys can be heard almost a mile away. When displaying, males droop their wings until the tips almost drag on the ground and spread their tails wide. Courtship season lasts from March until May.Photo: Displaying turkeys block US-441 between Gatlinburg and Sugarlands Visitor Center.

Eastern Screech Owls (Megascops asio) are the smallest resident birds of prey in Shenandoah National Park, weighing only about 5-8 oz. (that’s a couple of candy bars). They are active all winter, leaving their cozy tree-cavity nests at night in search of food. In winter, there is usually an abundance of mice and shrews, but other mainstay dinner items are hiding out until spring: frogs, salamanders, small snakes, lizards, moths, caterpillars and other insects. Wiley Screech Owls have been observed on frosty autumn mornings walking around farm fields, picking off inert grasshoppers like grapes.Photo: National Park Service

Almost a year to the day since she laid her last egg, Wisdom has done it again! At almost 63, Wisdom is the oldest, banded wild bird in the world. Midway Atoll NWR is the nesting site for 71% of the world’s population of Laysan albatross.Watch live video of Wisdom laying her egg: http://bit.ly/19kfDEy and view more photos of Wisdom, her mate, and her egg: http://bit.ly/1hAU1fs
Photo: Pete Leary/USFWS

Photographer Gary Davenport’s stunning close-up of a great blue heron and a hapless garter snake took honorable mention in the 2013 Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge photo contest. Ridgefield NWR was established (along with 3 other refuges in the Willamette Valley of Oregon) in 1965, in response to a need to establish vital winter habitat for wintering waterfowl with an emphasis on the dusky Canada goose whose nesting areas in Alaska were severely impacted by the violent earthquake of 1964. Ridgefield Refuge is currently approximately 5,300 acres of marshes, grasslands and woodlands.To see more photos from the contest click here.

Another stunning fall photo from America’s great outdoors. A Cottonwood tree and sandhill cranes at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. Photo: Robert Dunn/USFWS

Congratulations to Adam Grimm, the winner of the 2013 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest! Grimm’s oil painting of a canvasback will be made into the 2014-2015 Federal Duck Stamp, which will go on sale in late June 2014. The Service produces the Federal Duck Stamp, which sells for $15 and raises about $25 million each year to provide critical funds to conserve and protect wetland habitats in the National Wildlife Refuge System for the benefit of wildlife and the enjoyment of people.
To purchase the current Duck Stamp or to learn more about the program, click here: http://www.fws.gov/duckstamps/.

The J. N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge is located on the subtropical barrier island of Sanibel in the Gulf of Mexico. The refuge is part of the largest undeveloped mangrove ecosystem in the United States. It is world famous for its spectacular migratory bird populations.
Photo: Al Hoffacker

Swans taking flight at sunset over Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina. Photo: Ginny Gillam

This Great Horned Owl has found a great place to nest in a Saguaro in Saguaro National Park.Photo: Drew Jackson

Hundreds of Bald Eagles make the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge their home during winter months. The eagles congregate near open water snatching fish with their talons and soaring to to the treetops to eat their prey.

Watchful eyes - two great horned owl fledglings take a peek at photographer Donna Torres, who snapped this photo at Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge in Washington.

A female Ruby-throated Hummingbird in Shenandoah National Park uses its angelic-like wings to hover as it searches for the perfect flower to draw nectar from. Enjoy them while they’re around; by early fall they’re bound for Central America, with many crossing the Gulf of Mexico in a single flight!

Here is a great shot of an endangered California Condor in flight. Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge provides an essential habitat for California condors. The Refuge hosts a variety of habitats which support diverse groups of plant and animal species: 900 acres of grassland which is part of historic condor foraging range, 1049 acres of chaparral and coastal sage scrub, 350 acres of oak and walnut woodland, 110 acres of riparian habitat and 3 acres of fresh water marsh.Photo: Kim Valverde, USFWS

The Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, where more than 47,000 acres of southern New Jersey coastal habitats are actively protected and managed for migratory birds. Forsythe is one of more than 500 refuges in the National Wildlife Refuge System administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The National Wildlife Refuge System is a network of lands and waters managed specifically for the protection of wildlife and wildlife habitat and represents the most comprehensive wildlife resource management program in the world. Units of the system stretch across the United States from northern Alaska to the Florida Keys, and include small islands in the Caribbean and South Pacific. The character of the Refuges is as diverse as the nation itself.Photo: Eric Reuter, USFWS

The San Diego National Wildlife Refuge Complex supports habitats as diverse as coastal marshes and uplands, chaparral, coastal sage scrub, oak woodland, freshwater marsh, rare vernal pool wetlands, and the incredible breeding and nesting grounds for a suite of migratory and resident bird species in south San Diego Bay. In this picture, Elegant Tern Chicks and their parents enjoy the sun on a beautiful spring morning.Photo: USFWS

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