Male Snowy Owl
Male Snowy Owl
Short-eared Owl
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow
Fox Sparrow / Passerella iliaca, Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow
Day 10, Chipping Sparrow / Spizella passerina
Day 10, White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 10, American Goldfinch male
Day 10, American Goldfinch female
Day 10, White-throated Sparrow
Short-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Prairie Falcon - Status: SENSITIVE, Species of Spe…
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Day 10, White-crowned Sparrow
Short-eared Owl
Day 12, Snow Geese, Cap Tourmente National Wildlif…
Day 12, migrating Snow Geese, Cap Tourmente
Snowy Owl 1st year male, Snowy Owl Prowl 2019
Snowy Owl male, Snowy Owl Prowl 2019
Snowy Owl 1st year male, Snowy Owl Prowl 2019
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Day 12, some of the 50,000 Snow Geese, Cap Tourmen…
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Eastern Kingbird, from my archives
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl - from January
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Barred Owl in FCPP - from the archives
Juvenile Swainson's Hawk / Buteo swainsoni
Yellow-bellied Marmot - from the archives
Wilson's Snipe - from the archives
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl out on a tree limb
Day 7, Brown Anole (?) extending dewlap, southern…
Day 6, Green Jay / Cyanocorax yncas, southern Texa…
Day 6, Northern Cardinal male, southern Texas
Day 1, Turkey Vultures / Cathartes aura
Day 2, Savannah Sparrow, South Texas
Day 2, Turkey Vulture / Cathartes aura
Day 2, young White Ibis, Connie Hagar Cottage Sanc…
Day 2, Savannah Sparrows, Rockport, South Texas
Day 2, Crested Caracara immature / Caracara cheriw…
Day 2, Fox Squirrel, Pelican Bay Resort, South Tex…
Day 3, ENDANGERED Whooping Cranes / Grus americana…
Day 3, leg band & tracking device, Whooping Crane…
Day 3, Whooping Crane adult, Aransas National Wild…
Day 3, Whooping Crane colt, Aransas, Texas
Day 3, Whooping Crane colt flexing its wings, Aran…
Day 3, Cormorant drying its wings, Aransas boat tr…
Day 3, Double-crested Cormorants, Aransas boat tri…
Day 3, nesting Great Blue Herons, Rockport rookery
Day 4, Sedge Wren, Aransas Park
Day 4, Loggerhead Shrike / Lanius ludovicianus, Po…
Day 4, Common Gallinule, Leonabelle Turnbull Birdi…
Day 4, Black-bellied Whistling Duck / Dendrocygna…
Day 8, Snow Geese
Day 8, Snow Goose
Day 8, Snow Geese
Eastern Kingbird, SW of Calgary
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 8, Lapland Longspur, Quebec
Fish Creek Park on New Year's Day
Mountain Chickadee feeding on suet
Blue Jay / Cyanocitta cristata
Evening Grosbeak male, Priddis Count
Day 7, Harbor Seal, Saguenay Fjord, Tadoussac
Day 7 afternoon, Surf Scoters off Tadoussac
Day 7, American Robin, Tadoussac
Day 7, Red Squirrel eating the bird food, Tadoussa…
Day 7, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 7, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 6, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Tadoussac
Day 6, Red Squirrel, Tadoussac
Day 7, American Robin, Tadoussac
Day 6, Swainson's Thrush, Tadoussac Golf Course
Day 6, Horned Lark, Tadoussac Golf Course
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 10, White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 10, American Goldfinch female, Tadoussac
Day 10, American Goldfinch male, Tadoussac
Day 4, Baltimore Oriole, The Tip, Point Pelee
Day 4, sleeping Raccoon, Point Pelee, Ontario
Day 4, Prothonotary Warbler, Point Pelee - ENDANGE…
Day 4, Raccoon, Point Pelee
Day 4, Wild Turkey, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Day 4, Wild Turkey, Pt Pelee
Day 3, Cape May Warbler, on way to Hillman Marsh,…
Day 3, Purple Martins, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Day 3, Philadelphia Vireo / Vireo philadelphicus,…
Common Nighthawk / Chordeiles minor
Yes, it's the American Dipper again
Harlequin Duck male
Licorice Allsorts (candy) eyes
Great Horned Owl
American Dipper
American Dipper dipping
Tundra Swans
American Dipper dipping
American Dipper / Cinclus mexicanus
American Dipper / Cinclus mexicanus
Tundra Swans in flight
Great Horned Owl
Wood Duck male
Day 2, Chipping Sparrow, Rondeau PP
Day 2, White-breasted Nuthatch, Rondeau PP Visitor…
Day 2, American Foldfinch, Rondeau PP
American Pika - such a cutie
Rufous Hummingbird male / Selasphorus rufus
Black-necked Stilt (juvenile?)
Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel
Swainson's Hawk / Buteo swainsoni
Common Nighthawk / Chordeiles minor - threatened s…
Wood Duck male / Aix sponsa
Wood Duck male / Aix sponsa
Spooked by a barking dog
Black-necked Stilt (juvenile?) / Himantopus mexica…
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Pt Pelee and Tadoussac trip, Canada, 6-19 May 2018
Pt Pelee and Tadoussac trip, Canada, 6-19 May 2018
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Day 8, Snow Goose / Anser caerulescens
The 10 images posted tonight were all taken on the morning of 14 May 2018, Day 8 of our two-week holiday in Point Pelee (Ontario) and Tadoussac (Quebec). Thankfully, I have reached a few much larger birds, which were a pleasure to see and photograph after struggling to get any shots of the small birds that we had just been seeing. However, those small birds were a real treat, especially the beautiful Lapland Longspurs. Though we do get them in Alberta, I have never seen one here. Most likely, I will never see one again, hence the distant shots that I have uploaded. I still have to track more or less where we saw these particular Snow Geese. The photo of a mass of distant Snow Geese was taken about 50 minutes after the shot of the Great Blue Heron, so the last few photos I have just uploaded were taken in the early afternoon. We get Snow Geese in Alberta, but on the few occasions that I have seen them, they have been far, far away.
"Watching huge flocks of Snow Geese swirl down from the sky, amid a cacophony of honking, is a little like standing inside a snow globe. These loud, white-and-black geese can cover the ground in a snowy blanket as they eat their way across fallow cornfields or wetlands. Among them, you might see a dark form with a white head—a color variant called the “Blue Goose.” Snow Geese have skyrocketed in numbers and are now among the most abundant waterfowl on the continent.
The Snow Goose is a white-bodied goose with black wingtips that are barely visible on the ground but noticeable in flight. The pink bill has a dark line along it, often called a "grinning patch" or "black lips." You may also see dark morph Snow Geese, or "Blue Geese," with a white face, dark brown body, and white under the tail.
Snow Geese don’t like to travel without the company of another couple dozen geese and can form flocks of several hundred thousand. Family groups forage together on wintering grounds, digging up roots and tubers from muddy fields and marshes. In flight, they are steady on the wing with even wingbeats." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Snow_Goose/id
"Watching huge flocks of Snow Geese swirl down from the sky, amid a cacophony of honking, is a little like standing inside a snow globe. These loud, white-and-black geese can cover the ground in a snowy blanket as they eat their way across fallow cornfields or wetlands. Among them, you might see a dark form with a white head—a color variant called the “Blue Goose.” Snow Geese have skyrocketed in numbers and are now among the most abundant waterfowl on the continent.
The Snow Goose is a white-bodied goose with black wingtips that are barely visible on the ground but noticeable in flight. The pink bill has a dark line along it, often called a "grinning patch" or "black lips." You may also see dark morph Snow Geese, or "Blue Geese," with a white face, dark brown body, and white under the tail.
Snow Geese don’t like to travel without the company of another couple dozen geese and can form flocks of several hundred thousand. Family groups forage together on wintering grounds, digging up roots and tubers from muddy fields and marshes. In flight, they are steady on the wing with even wingbeats." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Snow_Goose/id
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