Outdoor Ontario
Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Shortsighted on July 31, 2023, 06:38:09 PM
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Another cool morning with a little breeze. Mosquito menace was not nearly so bad today. Unfortunately there was not much to see bird-wise. Sightings included: Lots of female RWBBs, Cedar waxwings, Cardinals, Am. Song sparrows, WB Nuthatch x2, Merlin in flight x1, Northern flicker x2, RB woodpecker x1, House wren x 1, Blue jays x 5, Chipping sparrow and its chick, an unbelievably friendly Downy woodpecker*, Am. Goldfinch x 3, several Mourning doves, Cottontail rabbit x 2, White-tailed deer x 1 (no fawns).
*The Downy woodpecker followed me around again. Almost immediately upon arrival it flew up to me and landed on my right shoulder. I kept walking and it stayed on my shoulder while I was walking for about 10 seconds and then walked over to my left shoulder for another 7 - 8 second perch before flying to a nearby bush. I remember feeling like a pirate, ... ahrrr!
Not much to photograph but I had to trip my shutter a few times ... ahrrr me matey, I just kinda had to.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-WtHwrkp/0/649454d4/M/Cowbird%2C%20immature%2Ccrop-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-WtHwrkp/A)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-VmGgbtM/0/4f51c3df/M/Flicker%2Cfar%2Ccrop-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-VmGgbtM/A)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-Dntvz7G/0/9cfffaa8/M/Cardinal%2C2%2Ccrop-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-Dntvz7G/A)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-qtvqdrT/0/789941d9/M/RWBB%2Cfemale%2Ccrop%2Cpng-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-qtvqdrT/A)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-gfMSL8D/0/b54233a9/M/RWBB%2Cfemale%2Cclose%2Ccrop%2Cpng-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-gfMSL8D/A)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-F7b7DSF/0/bfa60da5/M/Cottontail%20rabbit%2C2%2Ccrop-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-F7b7DSF/A)
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Got up for a spell at 3:30 a.m. just to have a look at the meteor shower but the street lights were too bright and my brain was too dark, so I went back to bed. Got up at 6:30 and went to a park because the temperature was a comfortable 16 degrees. I took a can of "Off" to keep the critters off me. Right off the bad I heard a Red-bellied woodpecker on the opposite side of a tree about 3 meters up, nice and close, but whenever it poked its head around the curvature of the tree trunk so that I could see it then there were leaves in the way. Rats! Then I was distracted by some delicious warbler chatter. Saw several warblers in the gloom of the understory. I couldn't make out what kind they were. I managed to get one shot at a very high and nasty ISO register and discovered that it was a juvenile Blackburnian warbler. Then I heard a woodpecker call high up. Spotted two juvenile Red-headed woodpeckers on a dead tree and way too far away as well as being against a bright white hazy sky backdrop. The worst possible scenario for getting a shot. Compensate 2 f-stops to the right and still not enough except to create chromatic fringing. I could treat that in post but the shot isn't good enough (close enough) to bother. In the same general area a catbird, probably juvenile and looking rather hung-over.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-t7HqVf8/0/2024e54e/M/RBWW%2Cpeek%20out-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-t7HqVf8/A)
Red-bellied woodpecker out of reach
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-jP3rmch/0/9c9101a7/M/Blackburnian-M.jpg) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-jP3rmch/A)
Juvenile Blackburnian warbler
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-XWFBJsZ/0/671c0366/M/RHWP%20x%202%2Ccrop-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-XWFBJsZ/A)
Two juvenile Red-headed woodpeckers
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-DLVdh8j/0/a76a4fac/M/Catbird%2Cjuvenile%2Ccrop-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-DLVdh8j/A)
Seriously messed up juvenile Gray catbird
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-TfnhnZp/0/1f054035/M/RHWP%2Cbehind%2C3%2Ccrop%2CB%26W-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-TfnhnZp/A)
B&W version of juvenile Red-headed woodpecker (no chromatic fringing this way)
When the sun came out the birds went away ... mostly. Tried to shoot a Red-eyed vireo but was interrupted several times by joggers and dog walkers. Stood completely surrounded by a bush to get a Willow flycatcher. This worked out so much better than the Great Crested flycatcher that was too far away and in earlier gloom. Even post-processing won't help that shot.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-MdCxR6W/0/9b3e38ae/M/W.Vireo%2Cside%2Ccrop-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-MdCxR6W/A)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-VhzJ6QK/0/03aeef6a/M/W.Vireo%2Chead%20turned%20away-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-VhzJ6QK/A)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-w2qjzX7/0/a419cac0/M/W%2CVireo%2C%20work%20it%2Ccrop-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-w2qjzX7/A)
Red-eyed vireo
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-8bcfPDH/0/65438d75/M/Willow%20FC%2Copen%20beak%2Ccrop-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontarioorg/i-8bcfPDH/A)
Willow flycatcher
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Wow!~ that's is a walk worth getting up early for!
I haven't ever seen a red headed woodpecker, but my personal favourite is the second red eyed vireo.
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Dunno if you were kidding when you said "I've never spotted a Red Headed Woodpecker" last year. If that is the case Congrat"s.
Napper:)
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Dunno if you were kidding when you said "I've never spotted a Red Headed Woodpecker" last year. If that is the case Congrat"s.
Napper:)
I haven't seen one, ever.