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A great egret looking for snacks in what is left of Mud Lake…the heatwave this summer has made it more of a Mud Puddle. Still, it managed to grab several minnows while I watched. Fuel for the inevitable flight south.
📍 Mud Lake, Ottawa
#birds #birdphotography #CanadianBirding #nature
Morning stroll through Fletcher Wildlife Gardens. A catbird among some pretty magenta and green foliage and a juvenile goldfinch in decidedly not-flashy brown plumage. I actually haven’t seen one in this form before…you can just see the yellow colour peeking through around the face.
#birds 🪶 #nature
A couple little guys. A belted kingfisher, the Billy Idol of the bird world 🤘, and a song sparrow. The song sparrows seem to be the only birds that really want their photos taken. And I always seem to catch them with their mouths full. #nature #birds #photography #birding
25.08.2025 18:27 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fishing shacks and some of their inhabitants in Naufrage, PEI. An amazing Barn Swallow colony there, using the old shacks for nesting. Netting protects the currently used buildings from being taken over. #photography #wildlife #nature
08.08.2025 20:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On a photo walk visiting interesting locations that are sometimes, as a resident in Ottawa, overlooked. One of these is Canal Lane, under the Plaza Bridge. #photography #blackandwhite #monochrome
09.07.2025 00:02 — 👍 56 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Hog’s Back Falls in Ottawa after a thunderstorm. A lovely view in winter or summer. #photography #longexposure #landscape
28.06.2025 19:24 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A wood duck duckling giving a painted turtle a hard time as the turtle tries to emerge from the pond to get some rays 🌞. The turtle made it and Mr. Grumpy relocated.
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A plant (Solomon’s Seal) partly catches the sun, turning some leaves a golden color, while it sits next to an older, lightly cracked, whitewashed building with a trellis running up the side.
Old garden building.
#photography #garden
📷 fuji x-t5, Xf 16-55 mk I
📍 Ottawa, Ontario
A Cedar Waxwing, with trademark red dipped feathers and yellow tipped tail, pauses for a rest on a sumac tree, bright red and green shrubbery in the background.
A Cedar Waxwing taking a moment on a sumac tree. Such a gorgeous bird, always love to see them. 🪶
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A female Northern Flicker, with only her top half showing, peers over the edge of a pile of dirt.
A female Northern Flicker surveys the area from her…dirt pile? Probably finding some snacks in there.
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Monochrome. An American Crow with a damaged feather looks out from a sparse tree branch.
A battle scarred warrior surveys his neighborhood.
#birds #photography #monochrome #nature
A black crowned night heron holds a plump catfish in its beak near the swamp’s edge.
A Black-Crowned Night Heron with a sizeable catfish for (a rather early) supper! While still a lovely animal, I find it a bit awkward looking without the elongated neck of his/her relatives. #birds 🪶 #photography #nature #fujifilm
12.05.2025 23:53 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Female Red-winged Blackbird inspects some tree buds in the glow of a sunset.
Female Red-winged Blackbird perched in her tree looks toward the setting sun.
Red-winged Blackbird (female) basking in the last of the afternoon sun. Fletcher Wildlife Garden, Ottawa.
#birds #photography #nature 🪶
American Goldfinch, with some white winter plumage and bright yellow stripes, inspects a tree bud.
American Goldfinch snags a winged bug from a tree bud.
The American Goldfinch has finally arrived. Still sporting some winter plumage with bright yellow suspenders. Helpfully eating a 🐞 from our tree!
#birds #CanadianBirding #nature #photography 🪶
People relax, looking onto the Douro River in Porto.
Porto, Portugal 🇵🇹
The Douro River
#urbangaze #photography
White Breasted Nuthatch resting on a branch.
White Breasted Nuthatch in the typical “bottoms up” pose on a tree trunk.
Downy Woodpecker deciding where to head to next.
Birds of our backyard. A Downy Woodpecker and a spritely White Breasted Nuthatch, pausing for photo ops. #birds #CanadianBirding 🪶
04.04.2025 22:32 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Monochrome. An American Crow stares down from his branch, directly at the camera, wondering who has entered his forest.
“To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;” The Raven
Not a Raven, just an American Crow, but this guy was definitely evaluating me while I was looking for other, less judgemental, subjects. 😆
#birds 🪶 #fujifilm
A multi-arch bridge illuminated at night crossing a canal in Ottawa.
The Bank Street Canal Bridge in Ottawa. I wish I had brought my 100-400mm as there was a Great Blue Heron just standing motionless in the middle of the canal…at night…looking sorta creepy. 😅
#photography
A profile shot of a colourful Wood Duck.
Got a snap of this dapper dude at Mud Lake Conservation Area in Britannia. He was certainly the best dressed of the day. Trails are still icy, but the 🌞 was lovely.
#CanadianBirding #Birds
Male House Finch perched on a spruce branch
House finch patiently waiting for his lady to return.
#addBirder #birds
