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.
This is my contribution to the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge: Something Good.
I drew a blank on this prompt at first before thinking about the way the natural world is carrying on as normal regardless of the humans around them. Spring migration continues as normal so I thought of some of the recently arrived or recently emerged from hibernation species in this part of Ontario.
I had my first American Robin about a month ago.
We had a male Northern Cardinal show up in the yard about three weeks ago.
I had my first Eastern Chipmunk emerge from hibernation about 10 days ago.
I heard Sandhill Cranes calling a week or two ago and saw two last Thursday.
I had my first Raccoon of the spring yesterday (Friday) evening.
When considering the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge: Simple Joys prompt I remembered going down to the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline for the sunrise and the joy of being entertained by a Belted Kingfisher pretending to be a Barn Swallow by sitting on a power line along the road.
That made me wonder what the sunrise had been like and what else I had photographed that day. That then got me thinking about coming home from another sunrise and spotting two Sandhill Cranes in a hay field in nice early morning light.
That was on the 4th August 2018 so here’s a selection of simple joys from that day.
The simple joy of a section of the Colpoy’s Bay shoreline to myself for a 50 second exposure at dawn.
The simple joy of a black and white photo of the mist and low cloud over the Niagara Escarpment across the bay.
The simple joy of spotting these two Sandhill Cranes in a hay field coming home from the sunrise.
The simple joy of setting up a camera in the yard to photograph this male American Goldfinch in its smart summer plumage.
Returning home from photographing a sunrise I spotted these two Sandhill Cranes in a hay field. Backlit by the low sun I had to stop and take some photos of the birds.
This is my contribution for day seven of Becky’s January Squares: Light photo challenge.
