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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Moira on November 15, 2009, 07:36:25 PM

Title: Cobourg & Port Hope
Post by: Moira on November 15, 2009, 07:36:25 PM

Here are a few shots from Saturday:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40798812@N03/4107700938/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40798812@N03/4107700938/)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40798812@N03/4106936235/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40798812@N03/4106936235/)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40798812@N03/4107699848/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40798812@N03/4107699848/)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40798812@N03/4106935205/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40798812@N03/4106935205/)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40798812@N03/4107700366/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40798812@N03/4107700366/)

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Post by: denis on November 15, 2009, 08:13:29 PM

wow! moira!
incredible hoodie! i,ve been looking all over for one of those! guess i,m in the wrong place at the wrong time.
denis

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Post by: thouc on November 15, 2009, 09:51:00 PM

Very nice pictures.

I believe number 3 is a Red-breasted Merganser. It doesn't have a white chin patch and the neck seems to lack a well-defined border between reddish brown and white, even if it's hard to see from this angle. The bill also seems to have less of a hook than Common Merganser.

Here's the mirror image of your picture :)

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... n%26um%3D1 (http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ofo.ca/photoalbums/checklist/Ducks_Geese_Swans/Red-breasted%2520Merganser/slides/DC_Red_Breasted_Merganser_2694.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ofo.ca/photoalbums/checklist/Ducks_Geese_Swans/Red-breasted%2520Merganser/slides/DC_Red_Breasted_Merganser_2694.html&usg=__FA5LE6-e1YP5ueg6ouq2J8G0wMI=&h=335&w=501&sz=24&hl=en&start=10&um=1&tbnid=7o2SlW5AyxnYQM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dred-breasted%2Bmerganser%2Bfemale%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-ca:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7GWYE_en%26um%3D1)

/Thomas

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Post by: MEGHAN on November 15, 2009, 10:56:40 PM

Great shots Moira!!
Meghan

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Post by: egret on November 16, 2009, 02:18:41 PM

lovely shots

I was to Port Hope
a while back

had a grand time

and Cobourg as well

Egret

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Post by: Moira on November 16, 2009, 04:14:26 PM

Thanks Denis.  Try Port Hope, bottom of Ontario Street.  This fellow swims with the Mallards there - quite interesting.  Cobourg Harbour is also well worth the trip.  I will be going back to improve on my Long Tail shots (if at first you don't succeed ...!)
Thank you Thouc - I will rename on my Flikr site.
Thanks Meghan and Egret - appreciate your kind words.

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Post by: denis on November 16, 2009, 04:58:45 PM

thanks moira.
i,m in a photography club here in port perry,and this spring we a fellow,who gave a talk,and showed us some excellent pics,and one of those was a hoodie,taken on the ganaraska river,in port hope,who hung around with mallards! he was saying that the hoodie,s been with those mallards,for a few years now! wow! same bird? what are the odds?
denis