Outdoor Ontario
Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Brian Bailey on May 24, 2015, 11:21:07 PM
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After the Bird Festival at Sam Smith Park yesterday, I went back to do a bit of birding and look for the Bobolink that had been spotted earlier in the day. Birding was pretty quiet, but I did find the Bobolink. He wasn't too skittish, but he sure wasn't much for posing:
(https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7764/17443821613_6e63209346_z.jpg)
He was also singing regularly:
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5451/17441739284_cb68cfbb33_z.jpg)
I've always had a soft spot for these guys with their backwards plumage and jumbled song. Sad they're such a rare sight these days.
This Song Sparrow could definitely give the Bobolink a few pointers on posing:
(https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7661/18064345995_03d80c665c_z.jpg)
BB
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nice.
i still have yet to see a Bobolink.
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A few come through every year (fewer each year [DISAPPOINTED FACE]) but I hadn't seen one for several years.
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I've had really good luck in recent years seeing them from the roads that surround Glen Major Forest and Walker's Woods in Durham Region. There are a lot of hay farmers in that area.
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Nice. During a lull in Whimbrel watching Saturday morning, I was looking for the Bobolink in the meadow area just west of the Whimbrel point. Unfortunately couldn't find it.
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He moved around a lot and stayed low in the grass most of the time. You pretty much had to see him fly or hear him call. I had passed him originally, and just caught a glimpse of something different out of the corner of my eye.
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