I was at JC Saddington, Mississsauga, watching a mink approaching a pair of Mute Swans on the rocks.
I looked up from the interplay to see a large bird, I thought at the time a GB Heron, flying up over the trees near the shoreline. I took a few fast fires before turning back to the mink saga.
On looking at them later, I discover it was a bird with a noticeably black tail end, preceded by a wide white strip, preceded by a black upper tail or possibly rump.The wings are gleaming a dark brown on top on the original photo.
Any guesses which bird has this combination of tail colouring?
Note, because of that effect of distant objects against trees, it could be any size from a large gull to a raptor to a GB heron. I really can't say for sure. So I've included two versions of the same photo, one with some of the trees in it.
I realize that unless this tail combo is definitive, I likely will never know what it was.
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