Chris Turner Lightscapes 🇨🇦

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A reddish brown mouse with black eyes and a pink nose works its way through fallen leaves.

Oh, Deer Mouse!
Charters Settlement, #NewBrunswick, #Canada
#nature #wildlife #mouse

A heron flaps it wings as it cruises low over still waters. Water plants and grasses form a green background reflecting off the water's surface with one white water lily adding a small accent.

Great Blue Heron,
From a few weeks ago,
Simcoe County, #Ontario, #Canada
#birds #nature #wildlife #heron

A red-bellied faces the sun showing off it red cap and black and white mottled back.

A Red-bellied Woodpecker launches itself from its perch showing off its wing a tailfeather patterns

Red-bellied Woodpecker, Saint John, #NewBrunswick
#birds #nature #wildlife #woodpecker

A Red-bellied Woodpecker perched on a tree trunk. This woodpeckers most prominent feature is actually its red cap. The background looks like coffee with cream in it (actually out of focus salt marsh grass)

Red-bellied Woodpecker, Saint John, #NewBrunswick
#birds #nature #wildlife #woodpecker

Ha ha, l suppose. I’ve never thought that seeing them in “person”. In this shot it is kind of crouching and stretching to get under the bark.

A Brown Creeper is a small, fast moving, bird who constantly searches for bugs in tree bark. It has perfect camo with a mottled brown and white back. Notable are its curved down, thin beak and feet, large for the birds size but well suited to grabbing bark.

A Brown Creeper creeping. Most often I hear them before spotting these small, well camouflaged birds.
#Fredericton, #Newbrunswick #Canada
#birds #nature #wildlife #creeper

A Hermit Thrush, with boldly speckled chest, looks off towards a wilted brown leaf hanging from a tree branch

Hermit Thrush in the Fall woods,
#Fredericton, #Newbrunswick #Canada
#birds #nature #wildlife #thrush

A wet mink takes a leap over water from one rock to another. It's rear feet are planted firmly as it pushes off into the air.

Close but not quite. A mink lands on a rock but one front foot missed its mark and the mink's head hits the ground while its rear end is still going, "ass over teakettle".

Sometimes you nail it, sometimes you don't.
American Mink, Simcoe County, Ontario, #Canada
#nature #wildlife #mink
Note: this was the same mink but two different jumps

Sitting atop a large rock the Caspian Tern shows off its long orange beak, black head cap with matching black legs and tailfeathers.

Caspian Tern from a few weeks back,
Simcoe County, Ontario #Canada
#birds #nature #tern #wildlife

A mostly brown bird this vulture has an "ugly" red face with wart like growths around its eyes, a wrinkly and fuzzy hairdo and a white hooked beak. Even its nostrils are odd looking large holes.

Wings spread showing its lighter coloured underwing. This vulture has an "ugly" red face with wart like growths around its eyes, a wrinkly and fuzzy hairdo and a white hooked beak. Even its nostrils are odd looking large holes.

Let's hope ugly is only skin deep....Turkey Vulture
Simcoe County, Ontario #Canada
#birds #nature #wildlife #vulture

A large white bird with black eyes, beak and feet has it's wings extended as it takes off.

From this summer (I am catching up with some editing). Trumpeter Swan takes to the skies.
Simcoe County, Ontario, #Canada
#birds #nature #wildlife #swan

Thanks, I’m usually floundering around but went with this for the halibut. 😉

A Grey Seal's head (throat-side showing) comes out of the water with a reddish brown flatfish in its mouth. The backlit fishes fins shine in the son.

This Grey Seal surfaced with a small Halibut?(maybe).
Bay of Fundy, Saint John, #NewBrunswick
#wildlife #nature #seal

Three young racoons on a sand bar falling over each other figuring out what I am about.

Fredericton, #NewBrunswick #Canada
#nature #wildlife #racoon

Three small racoons, presumably siblings, huddle while watching me take their picture.

The three amigos. Found these guys on a sandy point in the Saint John River. Seem small for this time of year. Hope they will be ready for winter.
Fredericton, #NewBrunswick
#nature #wildlife #racoon

A kinglet, an olive green bird with yellowish belly, spots a bug under a leaf and stretches up from a branch to grab the bug.

A successful grab the kinglet balances a bug on its slimy tongue before swallowing.

Ruby-crowned Kinglet grabbing a bug.
Tracy, #NewBrunswick #Canada
#birds #wildlife #nature #kinglet

As the tide goes out the Bay of Fundy leaves behind large mudflats. Here a heron flies over a large rock outcropping in the bottom of the dried up ocean. The heron has mud caked on its feet.

Tides out in the Bay of Fundy.
Great Blue Heron with muddy feet, Saint John, #NewBrunswick #Canada #birds #heron #nature #wildlife

A big eye looks back through the pasture. The woodcock's long beak points down to the right ready to probe the ground for bugs and worms.

American Woodcock
Charters Settlement, #NewBrunswick #Canada
#birds #nature #wildlife #woodcock

An American Woodcock looking for treats.
#NewBrunswick #Canada #birds #nature #wildlife #woodcock

A small brown bird looks to the right as it perches on a sloping branch.

One of the tiniest birds I see, a Winter Wren, came by our backyard for a visit.
Charters Settlement, #NewBrunswick #Canada
#birds #wildlife #nature #wren

A wild Turkey spreads its tailfeathers. Its head is clearly in view with its kaleidoscope of colours against the dark feathers.

Gobble gobble....... Thanksgiving here......Have a great one!
#birds #NewBrunswick #Canada #wildlife #nature

A gull with black tips outlining all its feathers swoops down in front of a sparkling but fog covered lake. The Bonaparte's is identifiable by the black smudge on the side of its head.

A Bonaparte's Gull comes in for a fish as the last of the fog dissipates.
Simcoe County, Ontario, #Canada
#birds #nature #wildlife #gull

There's a small splash of water as a mink pushes itself off the shore. It's reflection can be seen rippling through the water.

An American Mink slips into the water.
Simcoe County, Ontario, #Canada
#nature #wildlife #mink

Thanks Cathy. Life kind of got ahead of me, too much on the go and I'm finally getting to "refocus" on what I like to do.

This kingfisher twists as it decides to take a hard turn. It wings frame its forward facing head as its body rotates, exposing its belly, feet and slightly spread tailfeathers.

This Belted Kingfisher's life takes a turn.
#birds #nature #wildlife #kingfisher #canada

A juvenile Bald Eagle is not so "bald". The young have a brown head and eyes, unlike the white head and golden yellow eyes of the adult. The outstretched wings are cropped in this photo to give a better view of the head, feet and feathers.

Juvenile Bald Eagle flyby.......
#birds #canadianbirding #eagle #wildlife #nature

A normally all black bird this crow has no pigment in some of its wing feathers. In this example the symmetry of the missing pigment is so perfect it looks like this is the way a crow should be coloured.

A normally all black bird this crow has no pigment in some of its wing feathers. In this example the symmetry of the missing pigment is so perfect it looks like this is the way a crow should be coloured.

Love the way leucism has "coloured" this American Crow. Leucism is actually the absence of colour pigment.
Saint John, #NewBrunswick
#birds #nature #wildlife #crow

A Blue Jay perches on a branch. Its crest is down which indicates it's feeling relaxed and its throat is bulging. Blue Jays have a throat pouch which can stretch, similar to a chipmunk's cheeks.

Looks like this Blue Jay has a snack for later stashed in its throat pouch.

Charters Settlement, #NewBrunswick
#birds #wildlife #nature #BlueJay