This is my day 9 contribution to Becky’s April Squares on the theme of Bright.
Five Sandhill Cranes flying to roost at sunset.
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Bright Sunset
Tag: bird
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Some Spring Birds
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: New life emerging prompt.
There’s very little sign of spring around this part of Ontario at the moment, we got snow last Thursday.
So I decided to go with a small selection of of bird species that have started appearing on spring migration.
A Pine Siskin in spring. They stopped off in autumn on their way south and again on their way north in spring.
A male American Goldfinch. We had a couple of American Goldfinch on and off over winter but suddenly the male is getting his bright yellow breeding plumage.
A Chipping Sparrow. The first of the New World Sparrows to arrive this year. The first species is usually the Song Sparrow but I still haven’t had one this spring.
A Dark-eyed Junco. The first Juncos arrived a week or so ago and there was still at least six here at the weekend.
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Male Common Merganser
My Saturday Bird this week is the Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) a member of the duck family. It is known as the Goosander in Europe.
With an off white body and black head with a green gloss this is a male. Females are mostly grey with a reddish brown head.
Photographed in early April close to the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario, Canada. There is still the remains of the winter ice on the lake.
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Spring
This is my contribution to Debbie’s One Word Sunday prompt Spring.
After a few days of spring like weather winter returned last Friday.
However, that hasn’t stopped the summer birds appearing. We had at least half a dozen Dark-eyed Juncos around the yard on Friday.
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Black-capped Chickadee
This is my contribution to Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Words that contain CH or CK prompt.
Black-capped Chickadee contains one CH and two CK.
This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Birds prompt.
With nearly 40 years of bird photography in my archives I decided to go with one photo from each decade.
1980s. An adult Eurasian Blue Tit feeding young in a specially constructed nestbox in a garden in Hatherton near Nantwich in southern Cheshire, England.
1990s. Male and female American Avocets in summer (breeding) plumage on a slough near Punnichy, Saskatchewan, Canada.
2000s. An Osprey with a White Sucker on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario, Canada.
2010s. An immature Ruby-throated Hummingbird on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada.
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Female Purple Finch
My Saturday Bird this week is a continuation of last week’s post. This is a female Purple Finch (Haemorhous purpureus) in spring.
Photographed on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada in a year when the species hung around after winter and bred.
