Two backlit Sandhill Cranes in a hay field soon after sunrise.
This is my contribution to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Two of Anything.
A Photo a Week Challenge: Babies
My contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge is two photos this week. The prompt is Babies which got me thinking about bird species with young.
That made me think of two very different species that nest in tree cavities and will also use nest boxes.
This is a Common Merganser, a larger species of duck that needs a large tree cavity or nestbox. As soon as the eggs hatch the female carries the young to the water in her bill.
These are Eurasian Blue Tits. There are two adults feeding recently hatched young in a nestbox. Unlike the Common Merganser these young are born naked. It will be approximately 21 days before they have grown flight feathers and can leave the nestbox.
Another Winter Visitor
Throwback Thursday travels back to Cheshire, England in the 1980s and is a follow-up to last week’s post.
This is a Redwing, the second Thrush species that arrives in the U.K. from northern Europe to spend the winter. This individual has taken up residence in a Holly tree where it was feeding on the berries.
CFFC: Pastel/Soft Colours
This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pastel/Soft Colours.
Two shots of Colpoy’s Bay and the Niagara Escarpment at sunrise from the summer.
Wordless Wednesday: 4th December 2019
Tuesday Photo Challenge – Glow
The rising sun makes the patches of mist amongst the trees and bushes in a hay field glow.
This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge – Glow.
Weekly Prompts Photo Challenge: Flamboyant Red
This is my contribution to the Weekly Prompts Photo Challenge: Flamboyant Red.
The prompt got me thinking about some of the various bird species with red in their common English names. Some have very little red plumage.
Then I thought about some of the red birds that don’t have red in their common English names. Such as the Northern Cardinal, you can’t get much more flamboyantly red.
