Birds
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A wing and a prayer
Baird's Sandpiper pair, Marcil Lake.
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Nestled in Heather
Saturday we continued to explore outdoors, even though our snowmobile trip out on the land was cut short. Leah had headed to the water lake to fish, so Travis, Hilary and I headed inland to explore. We drove out to Second Bridge, where Lapland Longspurs launched themselves into the air, and floated down filling the
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I’ve got to start paying more attention.
This evening I was puzzling over a shorebird (more on the shorebird later – I've got dozen's of posts I could write these days), which flashed a white rump when it flushed. The trouble was the photos I took of it all said "Baird's Sandpiper" to me. So I wanted to go back to look
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Red-throated Loon pair.
Yesterday morning I was awake early, far too early at 5 am. But that is one of the beautiful things about living here in the summer, five am is as bright as noon. So I grabbed my camera and binoculars and headed out to my favourite birding spot this time of year, the outflow at
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In flight – Long-tailed Ducks
From early this morning, before I went to work.
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White-rumped Sandpiper
It was shorebird-a-go-go at the outflow yesterday. They were everywhere and very accommodating. While most were Baird's Sandpipers there were enough White-rumped Sandpipers to confound and delight. I've a more substantive post planned, but for now here is a White-rumped Sandpiper photo.
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Semi-Palmated Plover
Yesterday evening Leah and I were surprised to find a Semi-palmated Plover at Marcil Lake. Not (after last year), surprised that it was a Semi-palmated as opposed to a Common Ringed Plover, but I didn't expect one there. I've long thought it would be a great spot for them, but had yet to see one
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The things you find when you are not looking.
Last night, I was going through some photos that I took over the past few days. Travis, looking over my shoulder as he is wont to do, pointed at photo of a gull and said "Thayer's Gull Dad." He was, correct, it was a Thayer's, which makes me very proud. He noted the tips of
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Poseur – American Pipit
A brief stop at First Bridge after work, and before prepping supper found this fellow. He was displaying and strutting his stuff for the female he was trying to impress.