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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Anonymous on August 12, 2007, 07:43:48 PM

Title: Bittern, eagle, loon, black-backed and hairy woodpeckers
Post by: Anonymous on August 12, 2007, 07:43:48 PM

Algonquin park
Bittern
http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p43982077.html (http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p43982077.html)
Black-backed woodpecker
http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p43982080.html (http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p43982080.html)
Hairy woodpecker
http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p43982097.html (http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p43982097.html)
Pres'quille
Immature bald eagle
http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p44047519.html (http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p44047519.html)
http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p44047521.html (http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p44047521.html)
French River
Common Loon
http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p43713940.html (http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p43713940.html)
http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p43713942.html (http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p43713942.html)

Title: Loons et al
Post by: Joe on August 12, 2007, 09:55:31 PM

Nice pics.  I particularly like the shots of the Loon.

Joe

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Post by: Anonymous on August 13, 2007, 02:44:40 PM

Thanks very much for the comment Joe, it's very much appreciated:):)

Title: Re: Bittern, eagle, loon, black-backed and hairy woodpeckers
Post by: GStuart on August 14, 2007, 12:01:30 AM

Quote from: "GTRplr99"

Algonquin park
Black-backed woodpecker
http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p43982080.html (http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p43982080.html)

I'm sorry to quibble but I don't think that a Black-backed Woodpecker would have such a pronounced white supraorbital line.

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Post by: Anonymous on August 14, 2007, 07:07:04 AM

I appreciate your response and input gstuart, I am by no means an expert, I just went by what was in my bird book. The yellow on the head was what I went by. Here is another shot showing more of the yellow on the head. Please correct me if I am wrong:):)
Thanks again,
Art
http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p44093880.html (http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p44093880.html)

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Post by: GStuart on August 14, 2007, 09:45:53 AM

Now that's a Black-backed.  Is it really the same bird?

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Post by: Anonymous on August 14, 2007, 10:52:34 AM

Yes, this is the same bird, the yellow isn't as evident on the first shot. I have a shot of the hairy and the black-backed about 4 feet apart looking at each other, but it isnt the greatest.

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Post by: cloaca on August 14, 2007, 11:00:28 AM

Those are most certainly not the same birds.   This (http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p43982080.html) is a Hairy, and this (http://art-mcleod.fotopic.net/p44093880.html) is a Black-backed.

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Post by: Walter Sobchak on August 14, 2007, 12:52:37 PM

I also see different birds...

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Post by: Anonymous on August 14, 2007, 01:34:04 PM

Thanks very much for pointing this out, cloaca, I really appreciate it. This is why I come to this site, to learn:):):)
At least I got the eagle, the bittern and the loon right,,,lol):):):)

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Post by: Iain on August 14, 2007, 06:54:28 PM

Hey Art, that bittern shot is fantastic, I've never come close to even seeing one (let alone shooting one) sitting still out in the open like that... nice work.


Iain

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Post by: Anonymous on August 15, 2007, 01:11:43 PM

Thanks Iain.