Outdoor Ontario
Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Shortsighted on October 04, 2024, 11:35:55 AM
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Another crisp morning with completely clear sky. Like yesterday there was little to see, despite the northwest wind overnight. Up until about 8 o'clock not much stirred and the terrain was mostly poorly illuminated because the low sun was still behind trees. When I discovered any twitch it was almost certainly the result of a White-throated sparrow. There are so many of them. I even saw a WT near the ground beside me and ignored it for several precious seconds until I realized that it was not a sparrow at all, but a Palm warbler. Too late to recover that fumble. Almost immediately two more warblers arrived: a Myrtle and a Common yellowthroat. That was it for warblers. I saw one RC kinglet but no GC versions. Two phoebe briefly visited near me and two juvenile sapsuckers. Just before I left a Cooper's hawk flew over my head from behind me and landed just long enough to get a shot, which was not all that close, unfortunately.
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-N7tzvQc/0/KZ7FwcgN3QdmxxS2q6j4pHFPH4wvdHG8nzj2vQCgn/M/4%2CCooper%27s%20Hawk%2Ccropped-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-N7tzvQc/A)
Cooper's hawk
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-Rg5jVtM/0/MDd3mc2shn5zwnvND4ht9zLLj533xf9tBDbxSzG2B/M/4%2CWTS%2Cdark%20morph%2Ccropped-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-Rg5jVtM/A)
Dark-morph White-throated sparrow
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-bjcTnhJ/0/MM6m6ggW3ZZx97KvMR4J7zdJbXLjcmZS2VP7fqRjN/M/4%2CCYT%2Cclose%2C2%2Ccropped-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-bjcTnhJ/A)
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-cQv6pkz/0/Lxz8pZB4Xx6c56kd4jzXhDZn4csqjxvKXc262JpNR/M/4%2CCYT%2Cclose%2C3%2Ccropped-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-cQv6pkz/A)
Common yellowthroat
(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-NqmTjtF/0/KTDjfPw3PCnvB2gpZMc9PLsW9ZKFqHf4Z2bCnt6cp/M/4%2CYRW%2Cclose%2Ccropped-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-NqmTjtF/A)
Myrtle (Yellow-rumped) warbler