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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Shortsighted on April 23, 2025, 02:52:12 PM

Title: April 23rd - morning
Post by: Shortsighted on April 23, 2025, 02:52:12 PM
Another fine morning and absolutely no wind.  Well almost no wind.  I do have that vegan diet so there is no guarantee.  There was not much change since yesterday.  I saw a Brown thrasher for a second but couldn't get a lock on it.  There were both male and female Eastern towhee but they were having a trial separation, or so it seemed.  Just for a few seconds saw another Field sparrow, but never close.  RTH flew over and cast an ominous shadow.  Four Winter wrens and several kinglets, both Golden-crowned and Ruby-crowned (60/40) ratio.  A few Myrtle warblers looking for gnats.  Only three Hermit thrushes, mostly in trees instead of on the ground.  YBSS flying around but rarely on the trunk of a tree.  A busy Pileated woodpecker checking to see if everything is as it remembers it to be.  This time I was standing directly in the middle of a deer spoor and a deer walked right up to me, about three meters away, stopped and stared at me.  Then I remembered that I previously had to communicate to a deer that I wanted to pass and gestured accordingly.  It hit me, this deer is waiting for me to step aside.  So I stepped a few paces away from the spoor and it then proceeded past me ... quid pro quo.

(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-VdMCMmq/0/KzWwc7CdMQjgTcjSRRR3g5RmshzxDW3Vk8MpmwfzQ/M/Field%20sparrow%2Ccropped-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-VdMCMmq/A)
Field sparrow

(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-3BRSXQv/0/LXztXmwHsz9Sn44Fb8ZTXCf35cw46SP9WCXdFsPV2/M/Hermit%20thrush%20in%20sun%2C23%2Ccropped-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-3BRSXQv/A)
Hermit thrush

(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-WcjVnbt/0/KNRNnqrTZ5PWfcKMfHZLs5GBLKkFLdDC7phpGDtGf/M/Myrtle%2C23%2Chigh%2Ccropped-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-WcjVnbt/A)

(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-bBRRkxW/0/LjRvTL29QmHPbVs2PxdTc63SpzwJFn3LM4N2JhkMM/M/Myrtle%2C23%2Cdark%2Ccropped-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-bBRRkxW/A)
Myrtle warbler ... gnats everywhere

(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-PwPwmvW/0/M7nwqgVRp8G7tC9j5BLPXvGDJC4zBRBvf5qgHPjkW/M/Towhee%2CF%2Ccloser%2Ccropped-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-PwPwmvW/A)
Eastern towhee ...female

(https://photos.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-g5crww3/0/Nf5T5h6PsvXJddXWjgpWHSM7km4DXWRnKZzfPwtNV/M/Flicker%2C%20early%20sun%2Ccropped-M.png) (https://steinphotography.smugmug.com/Outdoor-Ontario/Outdoor-Ontario/i-g5crww3/A)
Flicker