Outdoor Ontario
Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Brian Bailey on July 27, 2009, 09:51:55 PM
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In between thunderstorms yesterday, I paddled through the lower Humber River & marshes. There are at least 3, and quite possibly 6 or more Great Egrets there. (I saw up to 3 at once in 2 different marshes and a single bird in another.)
This was a dominant (male?) who chased another egret out of the tree. (Or maybe he just wanted to be the one to get his picture taken.)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2633/3763404475_f6e966ff91.jpg)
Birder watching: this one was keeping an eye on me from behind the swamp milkweed.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3581/3763404153_bfd9508076.jpg)
Great Blue Herons are less common there. They look downright stocky compared to the egrets.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2564/3763403997_d0636bf488.jpg)
There's a small cormorant colony in one of the marshes. I'm not sure how the one in the lower left managed to hang himself :?
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2538/3764202486_a42f983db6.jpg)
Ring-billed Gulls look so much more dignified when they're not eating garbage in a parking lot!
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3568/3763405545_59c37f8e3a.jpg)
This painted Turtle was sharing a log with a Blue Heron.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3588/3764201420_aafc6f9b3a.jpg)
(Higher resolution images are on Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/n-stop/))
BB