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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: cosmo3667 on February 02, 2013, 07:35:06 PM

Title: Scarborough Bluffers Park today
Post by: cosmo3667 on February 02, 2013, 07:35:06 PM

Today was very overcast and some light flurries and cold but the park did not disappoint. Noted 29 Trumpeter Swans 2 Mute Swans over 100 Mallards with a good sized mixture of American Black Ducks. A larger than normal number of Buffleheads in the lagoon approx 25 both Male and Female, 1 Red Breasted Mergansger swam and dove regularly and fairly close to shore to. About 12 Longtail Ducks were partolling the mouth of the lagoons entrance to the Lake.  Add the flock of Rock Pigeons, a whole slew of Seagulls resting on the floating ice, and lastly about 50 Canada Goose which regularly take off and land leaving and returning making for some excellant inflight photo's.

A small sample of the Buffleheads
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Bufflehead Diving
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Canada Goose on the run to take-off
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Red Breasted Merganser
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Rock Pigeon
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Title: Re: Scarborough Bluffers Park today
Post by: Rotarran on February 02, 2013, 08:33:17 PM

Nice flight pics and hey a pretty cool photo of the pigeon too.

Title: Re: Scarborough Bluffers Park today
Post by: thouc on February 02, 2013, 08:51:01 PM

Nice pictures.

Your Merganser is a Red-breasted Merganser. The white necklace and the freaky hairstyle are two good field marks, while the male Common Merganser has a mostly white body.

/Thomas

Title: Re: Scarborough Bluffers Park today
Post by: Palo on February 04, 2013, 05:31:40 AM

Love the flying geese and I never saw pigeons with red eyes before!  Cheers

Title: Re: Scarborough Bluffers Park today
Post by: cosmo3667 on February 04, 2013, 11:35:31 AM

Quote from: "Palo"

Love the flying geese and I never saw pigeons with red eyes before!  Cheers

Come for a visit lots of of them and the elevated docks offer excellant inflight pictures as they fly by you at or below eye level, Foot of Brimley rd south of Kingston Road Scarborough