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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: JW Mills on August 06, 2010, 11:06:56 PM

Title: Oriole and one more GB Heron
Post by: JW Mills on August 06, 2010, 11:06:56 PM: Oriole in my backyard sometime last week

(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Wildlife/BaltimoreOriole03.jpg)

Heron at Smythe Park Aug 6
This shot was taken with a Canon P+S

(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Wildlife/GBHeron04.jpg)
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Post by: Cody on August 06, 2010, 11:10:49 PM: Very nice! Heron looks great!
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Post by: denis on August 08, 2010, 11:51:13 AM: nice detail in the oriole john.
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Post by: ravynne40 on August 08, 2010, 08:35:42 PM: Both fabulous pictures, I'm curious about the plumage on the heron though, he has a lot more longer string like plumage in the front...then the heron I saw at humber bay...does it mean he is an older heron?
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Post by: JW Mills on August 08, 2010, 10:28:14 PM: Thanks Cody, Denis and Irene.

Irene, you may be correct regarding the correlation between age and plume length. I was at High Park today and snapped what I believed to be a juvie GBH. He had no plume strings at all. Also his neck feathers seemed short and unfluffy (if that's a word!) compared to this fellow.
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Post by: MEGHAN on August 10, 2010, 09:54:46 PM: Nice photos John,
That park really is great!
As for plumage, I'm no expert..I'm sure Google could help me here... but I tend to agree with the theory here.
I took a picture of this guy last year, He just SEEMED older to me.
His plumage is longer and really, really darker than any other GHB I've seen.

(http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/ad317/Meghan1975/DSC_1215.jpg)

(http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/ad317/Meghan1975/DSC_1258.jpg)
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Post by: JW Mills on August 10, 2010, 11:23:59 PM: Thanks Meghan, and great shots!
Here's a pic of what I believe to be a juvie. You can clearly see the difference in plumage between this one and the other two

(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Wildlife/GBHeron05.jpg).