This is my day 9 contribution to Becky’s April Squares on the theme of Bright.
Five Sandhill Cranes flying to roost at sunset.

This is my day 9 contribution to Becky’s April Squares on the theme of Bright.
Five Sandhill Cranes flying to roost at sunset.
This week Amy has given us the prompt Natural Light for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge.
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.
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.
Throwback Thursday travels back to Saskatchewan in the late 1990s.
A large, loose V of Sandhill Cranes flying to roost at sunset during the autumn migration.
With no internet connection at home I’m slowly working on editing the thousands of slides I copied last winter. I recently finished all the copies with Sandhill Crane included in the keywords.
Five Sandhill Cranes flying to roost at dusk. Photographed at Little Quill Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada during autumn migration.
This is my day 5 contribution to Becky’s October Squares on the theme of Kind.
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Our Feathered Friends prompt.
With 30+ years of bird photos I decided to keep it simple and came up with the theme of size divided between North America and Europe.
A young Ruby-throated Hummingbird, one of the smaller birds found in North America.
Two Sandhill Cranes, one of the larger bird species found in North America.
A Eurasian Wren, one of the smaller European bird species.
Portrait of a Grey Heron, one of the larger European bird species.
This is my contribution to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Delicate Colours.
This week’s prompt came from Ann-Christine and was giving me some difficulty. I had a couple of ideas for the challenge, neither of which I was really happy with. Then I realised that the two photos I was thinking of were taken over 40 years apart, one in the 1970s and one in the 2010s.
So I decided to fill in the blank decades with a photo from each decade.
1970s. Autumn Beech trees in the mist.
1980s. A male Eurasian Bullfinch feeding on seed heads in a hay field.
1990s. Sandhill Cranes flying to roost at sunset in the autumn.
2000s. Chantry Island and its lighthouse through mist at sunrise.
2010s. A mist shrouded Colpoy’s Bay and the Niagara Escarpment at sunrise.