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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Anonymous on March 14, 2009, 11:12:20 PM

Title: Leslie Street Spit Sampling
Post by: Anonymous on March 14, 2009, 11:12:20 PM

Here's a few that I found today, hope you enjoy them.  

(http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq326/WingsofFuryPhotography/Kestrel1.jpg)

(http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq326/WingsofFuryPhotography/Chickadee1.jpg)

(http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq326/WingsofFuryPhotography/CommonMerganserFlight.jpg)

(http://i460.photobucket.com/albums/qq326/WingsofFuryPhotography/GHO2.jpg)

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Post by: Greg Schneider on March 14, 2009, 11:15:54 PM

What did the great horned owl catch?

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Post by: Anonymous on March 14, 2009, 11:23:48 PM

Muskrat

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Post by: Niloc on March 15, 2009, 12:20:50 AM

hey nice pics, I think I walked by you this morning on the red bridge, you had the big cannon lens?

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Post by: Anonymous on March 15, 2009, 11:04:45 AM

Colin, I was shooting w/ a 300mm Canon lens.  Were you the gentleman walking with his friend when we crossed paths?

Attila

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Post by: Niloc on March 15, 2009, 11:51:55 AM

Well maybe it was not you then no big deal..

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Post by: Mark D on March 15, 2009, 08:35:24 PM

Nice shots. I really like the mergansers in flight.  Also, I've never seen an owl with a skinny tail and second pair of legs before  :lol:. Did you watch the owl catch the muskrat, or did it already have it?

Mark

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Post by: Anonymous on March 15, 2009, 11:02:51 PM

Guess it wasn't Colin.

Mark, thanks for the comments.  I was thinking of renaming the bird a Great Horned Musky Owl, but the Smithsonian denied the application.   :lol:   The owl had the muskrat when I arrived on the scene, but I do know that there were other members of this forum who were present just a bit before I was.  I'd love to hear if the bird had the owl as well or if it picked it off in the middle of the day.

Anyone?

Attila

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Post by: Anonymous on March 22, 2009, 10:53:32 PM

Just received an email with regards to the type of Great Horned it is:  Snyder's Great Horned Owl.  More information on it can be found at this link: http://www.jeaniron.ca/Owls/torontoghowls.htm (http://www.jeaniron.ca/Owls/torontoghowls.htm)