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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: JW Mills on September 06, 2010, 09:55:27 PM

Title: Cormorant, Grebe & Merganser
Post by: JW Mills on September 06, 2010, 09:55:27 PM

Red-necked Grebe at Sam Smith
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Wildlife/Red-neckedGrebe01.jpg)
 
 
Cormorant at Humber Bay East
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Wildlife/Cormorant01.jpg)
 
 
Who's your buddy! at Humber Bay East
(http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u225/zed37/Wildlife/BlackDuckMerganser.jpg)

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Post by: ravynne40 on September 06, 2010, 09:59:50 PM

Beautiful and crisp shots as always :)
did you happen to see any young grebes around? I was there yesterday and "thought" i might have seen some but when I walked around to the boating area they had disappeared, I'm thinking the gloomy weather and the threat of rain made them hide for cover.

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Post by: Moira on September 07, 2010, 07:30:43 PM

Nice shots John.  Really like the grebe.  I haven't been in that neck of the woods for months - long overdue for a visit.

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Post by: Reuven_M on September 07, 2010, 08:38:38 PM

I love that cormorant, good job

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Post by: denis on September 07, 2010, 09:52:21 PM

great set john

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Post by: JW Mills on September 07, 2010, 11:07:16 PM

Thanks everyone!
 
Irene, I didn't check the inner waters at Sam Smith. I took a walk out to the point and back. I only saw 4 adult Grebes.

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Post by: ravynne40 on September 08, 2010, 06:29:27 AM

In the last picture..isn't that a merganser on the rock?

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Post by: Cody on September 08, 2010, 08:17:34 PM

Great shots John! The sun on the Cormorant looks great!

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Post by: thouc on September 08, 2010, 08:39:35 PM

Very nice shots.
And yes, it's a Hooded Merganser on the rock.

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Post by: ravynne40 on September 08, 2010, 09:00:43 PM

wow indeed a nice find, usually they are in the water not on the rocks :)

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Post by: JW Mills on September 08, 2010, 10:09:06 PM

Thanks Cody and Thomas.
 
Sorry Irene, I put Merganser in the title but forgot to label the pic!
Her bud, I believe, is a Black Duck

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Post by: thouc on September 09, 2010, 12:57:41 PM

I think the other duck is a Mallard, male eclipse, the body doesn't look dark enough for a Black Duck.

/Thomas

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Post by: JW Mills on September 09, 2010, 06:02:05 PM

Thanks for the correction Thomas, I goofed up!

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Post by: ravynne40 on September 09, 2010, 06:17:47 PM

male eclipse? can  someone explain this term to me please?

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Post by: Leslie on September 10, 2010, 05:59:39 PM

in eclipse 2 (of a bird) having lost its courting plumage.  --Cdn Oxford Dictionary, 2nd edition

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Post by: ravynne40 on September 10, 2010, 09:51:32 PM

ahh thanks :) I didn't know this term :)