Outdoor Ontario
Off Topic => Anything Goes => Topic started by: Shortsighted on December 24, 2024, 11:41:17 AM
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Merry Christmas! 🎄
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Merry Christmas from Niagara Falls.
SS, the frost pic is so pretty!
See ice and snow I saw in Niagara Falls
https://youtube.com/shorts/IQk1Alo1UmA?feature=shared (https://youtube.com/shorts/IQk1Alo1UmA?feature=shared)
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This is a warm one
https://youtube.com/shorts/jFbSYtPNjU4?feature=shared (https://youtube.com/shorts/jFbSYtPNjU4?feature=shared)
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Belated Merry Christmas and as we say in our family Merry Boxing Day, as we have a family dinner today that has been going on for 52😳 years!!!!!!!
Anyone here participating in a Christmas Bird Count. Do our local one on Saturday and our club is doing a second one on another localish area. Shall be in!!!!!! My husband is the heckler, but he provides great support to me and goes merry along!!!! He still complains every year he has yet to see a Christmas Bird!!!!!!! He is good at spotting birds too!!!!!!!!
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On Christmas Day, I walked about 9 miles along Stanley Road in Niagara Falls. I saw one Kestrel, two Coopers, one red-tailed on the roadside. There were many megansers and buffleheads in Welland River. There were thousands of ducks, geese in the sky. I will check to see if there were any sandhill cranes when I download my photos and videos. I didn't bring the 400mm lens.
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I love that statement ... "didn't bring the 400mm lens" ... so casual, so matter-of-fact, as if everyone has a 400mm lens, like, "I didn't bring my boots". So, you walked nine miles. That's about 15 kilometers, but I guess you walked it on the American side. Oh, wait, I'm sorry, you're right, it's miles, cuz I forgot that according to President Elect Donald Trump we are now the wonderful 51st state. Someone should inform all those waterfowl that they no longer need to worry about customs and security at the border. Wait, there's something not right here. Didn't we just spend, or promise to spend billions festooning the border with bureaucracy? That bureau crazy! Way too many desks to fill. Oh right, some of it will be in the form of drones, all under control of the head drone, Donald duck. Still, 9 miles, or almost 15 metric clicks, that's pretty good. It's like tackling Tommy Thompson Park in totality. Your back must be getting better and that's a good sign of great things to come in the New Year.
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Funny you mentioned trafficking. In the spring of 2014, I photographed the night heron pair, taking twigs from Canada to build their nest in the US.
My back is getting better, thanks. The pain comes and goes. Sitting and carrying heavy lens will trigger the pain. Walking is ok.
Isn't TTP 5 km each way? Not sure though. The challenge was I had to walk a section of the road in ankle-high snow.
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Well, dear lady, that was in 2015. Now there will be a 25% duty on lumber, so those heron and there offspring might wish to rethink there plans for the coming spring.
Yes, TTP is about 5 kilometers (I don't recognize kilometres as a sensible alternative, unless it is a device for measuring distance in kilometers) from base to tip, but then also add the inevitable back & forth travel east and west, from cell to embayment, that can make it a very long haul indeed. I really don't know how anyone can accomplish that trek while carrying a 500mm f4 lens, and yet many do just that. Those enthusiasts are made of sterner stuff. Of course some ride a bike but then need to keep track of it. I don't have a bike, or bike rack (redundant, I suppose), and I'm not keen on renting one since I don't use rental/parking apps, or even have a cellphone. I have my feet, for now, and plan to use them again when I get over the injury sustained by slamming my toes against the protruding metal legs of a portable workbench. May have cracked a bone. Just another crack to add to my other cracks. To paraphrase L.Cohen ... cracks are how the light gets in. Let's hope 2025 has some really good light.
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Belated Merry Christmas to you all! We are in Alberta, mainly seeing magpies, red breasted nuthatches, and downies.