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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: aviator on April 06, 2018, 08:42:03 AM

Title: Col. Sam Smith waterfowl
Post by: aviator on April 06, 2018, 08:42:03 AM

Horned Grebes

(https://i.imgur.com/ftU7OSB.jpg)

Grumpy female Common Goldeneye
(https://i.imgur.com/Hnps4T6.jpg)

Title: Re: Col. Sam Smith waterfowl
Post by: Brown-headed Birder on April 06, 2018, 09:35:23 AM

Nice photos.  I particularly like seeing both phases of the Horned Grebe.  Ran into a new birder who thought a bird looking like your top one was an Eared Grebe (because it didn't look like your bottom one that she had just seen) and I had to explain that when Horned grebes are transitioning to breeding plumage they can look like Eared. Hated to burst her bubble but I made the same mistake when I started. Nice comparison.

Theresa

Title: Re: Col. Sam Smith waterfowl
Post by: aviator on April 06, 2018, 03:34:15 PM

Thank you. This bird is for you!
(https://i.imgur.com/R9bAukU.jpg)

Title: Re: Col. Sam Smith waterfowl
Post by: MikeN on April 07, 2018, 09:21:39 PM

Saw a pair or those Nuthatches last week, only 16hrs drive south of here.