My Saturday Bird this week is a juvenile Red Knot (Calidris canutus) resting on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario, Canada.
This individual hatched from an egg in the summer and is now heading south for the winter. It has stopped on the shoreline to feed and rest having already flown from northern Canada. It could travel as far as the southern tip of South America for the winter.
My Saturday Bird this week is a juvenile Sanderling on autumn migration.
Photographed early morning on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario, Canada.
My Saturday Bird this week is the White-crowned Sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys), one of the sparrow species native to North America.
The photo shows an adult in the foreground with an immature bird behind. Photographed on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario where they are a passage migrant seen in the spring and autumn.
These birds were on autumn migration, having bred in northern Canada they are on their way to the southern U.S. for the winter. The young bird was hatched from an egg in the summer and is on its first migration.
This is my contribution to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Sanctuary prompt.
On reading the prompt I didn’t have any ideas for some time. Then I thought about the Last Mountain Lake National Wildlife Area in Saskatchewan, Canada.
The National Wildlife Area includes the Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary, the first federal bird sanctuary in North America.
The sanctuary is a breeding area for American White Pelicans.
A section of the sanctuary at sunset in the autumn.
Snow Geese on autumn migration in the sanctuary.
A section of the sanctuary at sunset in the winter.
This is a contribution to the Photo a Week Challenge: Rainbow.
I have a few photos of rainbows but one photo came to mind immediately on reading the challenge.
A rainbow over a barn on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario in the autumn.
This is my contribution to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Autumn.
For the month of July the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge has the theme of seasons. I decided to go with the same theme for each season, one bird photo, one scenic photo and one flora and fauna photo.
And just to complicate things further, one photo from my time in Ontario, Canada, one photo from my time in Saskatchewan, Canada and one photo from my tims in the U.K.
Snow Geese on autumn migration taking off from a section of the Last Mountain Lake National Wildlife Area in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Storm clouds and light beams at Loch Arkaig, Scotland. I was in Scotland to photograph autumn colour and autumn scenery. After three days of rain the clouds started breaking shortly before sunset.
Autumn Maple leaves on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada.
This is my day 16 contribution to Becky’s July Squares on the theme of Perspective.
A giant setting sun with tiny wildfowl flying to roost below it. Photographed at Little Quill Lake, Saskatchewan during autumn migration.
