Outdoor Ontario
Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Steve Hood on November 10, 2019, 08:21:05 PM
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Similar to the female Hooded Warbler from last winter, an immature White-eyed Vireo is now hanging out around the Water Treatment plant at Sedgewick Forest in Oakville. With the forecast of cold weather next week I don't think it will stray too far from the bugs that exist there.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49046474752_1deca13ddb_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hJ51c3)
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49046260321_1b87f9ebc4_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hJ3UrX)
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Engaging shot of an elusive species. Dare I say, even an exquisite capture
considering the pose, eye detail and relaxed and inquisitive expression on
the vireo, if you can indeed venture to call it an expression. Clearly, I gravitate
toward the absurd. Well done and thanks for posting it. You know what you've
done? I'm now forced to rummage through my old trunk and don my green-eyed
monster costume even though I vowed never to put it on again. Once again
you have managed to come up with a shot that will haunt me all day even though
the green-eyed monster costume will likely be back in the trunk in a couple of
hours after my jealous fever has cooled down. I've never even seen a WEV let
alone executed its portrait. This Sedgewick Park certainly has its treasures.
I'll have to wait until climate change brings its treasures to the GTA and Pickering,
maybe in a decade when I'm too addled to care.