Outdoor Ontario
Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Shortsighted on December 31, 2024, 03:22:58 PM
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After almost missing the garbage pick-up this morning I realized, while outside, how benign the weather was compared to the sturm und drang from the previous day. It was dead-calm this morning and not that cold. That was a sign. Time to grab the camera and head out. I decided to head out to Whitby because it was time for a visit. Good thing too. When I arrived there were four Sandhill cranes in the farmer's field and quite a lot of geese. Then again, when are there not a lot of geese. Trouble was that the cranes were on the other side of tall weeds when viewed from the road. I wasn't about to climb a tree. After surveying the road I found a spot over the drainage water with a deer path to the edge of the weeds and that discovery led to a good place to take photographs.
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Crane on other side of tall weeds
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Three of the four
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Better spot
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