Tag: Sanderling

Starting with the Letter – S

Post author By David M
Post date 23/02/2021
16 Comments on Starting with the Letter – S

This week Patti gave use the prompt Subjects Starting with the Letter – S for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge.

I quickly had a long list of ideas for the challenge and was considering a couple of different themes to build a post around.

When I realised that one set of three photos were taken in different seasons I decided to go with a set of four photos, one from each season.

A fallen branch Sticks out of the Snow while Surrounded by Shadows cast by the Sun on the South Bruce Peninsula on the winter Solstice.

A Pine Siskin (Spinus pinus) Surveys its Surroundings on the South Bruce Peninsula in Spring.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Subjects Starting with the Letter S

Backlit Sandhill Cranes Shortly after Sunrise on the South Bruce Peninsula in Summer.

A juvenile Sanderling on the Lake Huron Shoreline in Southampton Shortly after Sunrise. A Stopover on its way South during autumn migration.

Tags bird, Lens-Artists, Pine Siskin, Sanderling, Sandhill Crane, shadow, shoreline, snow, solstice, South Bruce Peninsula, Southampton, spring, summer, sunrise

A Month of Squares

January Squares: Up #27

Up on top of a rock.

This is my day 27 contribution to Becky’s January Squares on the theme of Up.

Four Sanderling Up on top of a rock on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario during autumn migration.

Tags autumn, bird, Fujichrome Provia 100, Lake Huron, OM Zuiko 350mm f/2.8, rock, Sanderling, shoreline, Southampton, SquareUp

A Month of Squares

Four Of A Kind

Four young Sanderling on the Lake Huron shoreline at sunrise during their autumn migration.

This is my day 4 contribution to Becky’s October Squares challenge on the theme of Kind.

Tags autumn, juvenile, KindaSquare, Lake Huron, migration, Sanderling, shoreline

Weekly Topics

Juvenile Sanderling

My Saturday Bird this week is a juvenile Sanderling on autumn migration.

Photographed early morning on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario, Canada.

Tags autumn, juvenile, Lake Huron, migration, Sanderling, Saturday Bird, shoreline, Southampton

Six Word Saturday

Blue water and a juvenile Sanderling.

Post author By David M
Post date 03/08/2019
2 Comments on Blue water and a juvenile Sanderling.

Lake Huron shoreline, Southampton, Ontario, Canada.

My contribution to Six Word Saturday.

July Squares: Blue water, juvenile Sanderling.

Tags 6WS, juvenile, Lake Huron, Sanderling, shoreline, Southampton

Lens-Artists

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Wild

Post author By David M
Post date 02/06/2019
14 Comments on Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Wild

This is my contribution to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Wild.

As someone who has been photographing wildlife for years I had difficulty finding a starting point.

So I decided to go with a selection of photos taken when I wasn’t necessarily expecting a wildlife encounter. When I was out for a sunrise or photographing landscapes for example.

A Striped Skunk that appeared while I was looking for spring migrants around Little Quill Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Unexpected encounter.

Sitting on a bench at Dominion Lookout on the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario imagine my surprise when this Red Fox came trotting along the shoreline. I later found out that it was a regular and well known by the locals.

Trotting Red Fox.

Coming home from photographing a sunrise I spotted these two Sandhill Cranes in a field on our side road.

Sandhill Cranes at sunrise.

A Racoon that wandered into the yard one afternoon. I was sitting on the deck having been shooting portraits earlier so had a portrait lens on the camera.

Portrait of a Racoon.

A Sanderling on autumn migration. I had gone down to the Lake Huron shoreline in Southampton, Ontario, Canada for the sunrise and found a small flock of half a dozen Sanderling on the shoreline.

Feeding juvenile Sanderling.