Chris Riley

Two bald eagles sitting on a branch, with one of them looking at the camera and the other in profile.

Starting off the new year with a bang.
#eagle #birds #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #missionmarsh

A baby mallard bends down with beak open to eat a small plant.

Went camping this week, these mallards walked past once an hour keeping the shore free from insects, plants, and anything the kids in the campsite next door dropped near the shore.
#wildlifephotography #canada #elbowsup #ontario #sleepinggiantprovincialpark #birds #amateurphotography

A yellow warbler clinging to a cattail seed head.

A yellow warbler playing peekaboo.
#wildlifephotogtaphy #birds #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #missionmarsh #amateurphotogry

A bald eagle just taking off from its nest.

Eagle-1, you have permission for takeoff.
#wildlifephotography #birds #eagle #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #missionmarsh #amateurphotography

A hooded merganser swimming in Lake Superior

Either this is a hooded merganser, or Don King has been reincarnated.
#wildlifephotography #birds #ducks #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #missionmarsh #amateurphotography

A belted kingfisher sitting on a branch, showing off his faux-hawk.

The kingfisher has returned. Let's see if he'll pose for me as well as he did last year.
#wildlifephotography #birds #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #missionmarsh #amateurphotogrtaphy

I have a red hat as well. "Canada is already great"

A male hooded merganser swimming between ice sheets just off a rocky shore on Lake Superior

It may be a hooded merganser instead of a Norwegian blue, but it still has beautiful plumage.
#wildlifephotography #birds #ducks #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #missionmarsh #amateurphotography

Two mallards swimming in Lake Superior.

A nice mallard couple playing in the surf.
#wildlifephotography #birds #ducks #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #missionmarsh #lakesuperior #amateurphotography

As an autistic adult who has paid taxes all my life, RFK Jr. owes me a HUGE tax refund...

A great blue heron sitting on top of a dead tree in the middle of some boreal forest.

A great blue heron sitting on a pole.
#wildlifephotography #birds #heron #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #amateurphotography

A juvenile bald eagle perched in the top of a spruce tree

A young bald eagle glaring at everyone from his tree.
#wildlifephotography #birds #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #missionmarsh #amateurphotography

Must be nice.. We got snow yesterday, and it's going to hit -18C tonight.

A fawn leaping over some grass onto a road.

This one's for the Canadian Gen X'ers.. "The polkadot deer"
#wildlifephotography #deer #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #amateurphotographer

It needs one more line.. "Hands off Canada & Greenland"

A bohemian waxwing sitting on a branch with shriveled crabapples hanging from it.

A Bohemian Waxwing checking out the crabapples.
#wildlifephotography #birds #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #amateurphotography

Four purple finches feeding at a pair of bird feeders hanging in front of a window

Since we're changing some names, I nominate the Purple Finch for renaming to "Scarlet seed destroyers".. These guys cleaned me out in one afternoon.
#wildlifephotography #birds #canada #elbowsup #ontario #rosslyn #amateurphotography

A great blue heron, knee deep in lake superior, with a minnow in its beak.

A great blue heron grabbing a snack before dinner
#wildlifephotography #birds #herons #canada #elbowsup #Ontario #thunderbay #missionmarsh #amateurphotography

It always looks like they dyed their eyebrows.

Three bohemian waxwings feeding on the shriveled remains of crabapples in a crabapple tree on an overcast day.

The Bohemian Waxwings found the crabapples.
#wildlifephotography #birds #waxwings #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #amateurphotography

You should defect to Canada, and set up a government in exile ;)

There is a radio program in Canada that talks about marketing (Under the influence) . They did an episode on campaign songs. One of the bits of trivia they threw in is that Trump is the president that has had the most bands tell him to stop using their music.

A snow bunting sitting on a dirty white rock, looking over its shoulder at the camera.

A snow bunting stopping for a break on the way south.
#wildlifephotography #birds #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #missionmarsh #amateurphotography

Two goldeneye ducks, one male and one female, swimming in the water between ice floes on lake Superior

The Goldeneyes are returning.
#wildlifephotography #birds #ducks #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #lakesuperior #missionmarsh #amateurphotography

I thought that was just Babylon 5 passing by...

A lesser Yellowlegs standing in some mud on the shore of Lake Superior

A Lesser Yellowlegs
#wildlifephotography #birds #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #missionmarsh #lakesuperior #shorebirds

A brown headed cowbird sitting in a conifer.

For today's viewing pleasure, I give to you, a Brown Headed Cowbird (cow sold separately)
#wildlifephotography #birds #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #missionmarsh #amateurphotography

A belted kingfisher sitting on a branch.

A belted kingfisher showing off it's belt.
#wildlifephotography #birds #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #missionmarsh #amateurphotography

A tree swallow in flight just in front of a nesting box with another tree swallow poking its head out the entrance hole.

A tree swallow returning home after work to be met by their spouse at the front door.
#wildlifephotography #birds #canada #elbowsup #ontario #thunderbay #missionmarsh #amateurphotography

I made a Boom Boom!