We have just come back from a two-week holiday with all of our immediate family, children and grandchildren, in Nova Scotia. Of course, we had the Canon 100-400mm II, Sigma 150-600mm C, Canon 5DS R and 7DII. In homage to our CR hosts and the many Canadian members, I will post some highlights hoping the Canadians ill join in.
Canadian birds
- Thread starter AlanF
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Day 2
Nova Scotia is a vast, beautiful, underpopulated area. And that applies to birds too - it's very difficult to spot them, and they are very skittish, perhaps because the Canadians were very skilful hunters.
Pleasant Point Park in Halifax is really nice. I saw my first robin, with insects in its beak, the only chickadee, a cormorant far away, a dove on a wire, and then joy, a close up of a woodpecker.
Nova Scotia is a vast, beautiful, underpopulated area. And that applies to birds too - it's very difficult to spot them, and they are very skittish, perhaps because the Canadians were very skilful hunters.
Pleasant Point Park in Halifax is really nice. I saw my first robin, with insects in its beak, the only chickadee, a cormorant far away, a dove on a wire, and then joy, a close up of a woodpecker.
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Nice pictures!
If you are ever in Ottawa, let me know.... I'll plop you down in a canoe and take you out into "the wilds" to fill your memory cards
If you are ever in Ottawa, let me know.... I'll plop you down in a canoe and take you out into "the wilds" to fill your memory cards
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Day 10
Good time to come in Don as I was going to mention you. We spent a couple of days in Kejimkuji, and we paddled a Canadian canoe, portaging our telephotos. And we didn't see a damn bird. It then poured with rain and we drove back early and discovered Grand Pre. It was really misty and there was intermittent rain. But, I came across a group of Cedar Waxwings, passing through the Unesco viewpoint. I took a load of shots of them feeding, and processed them as well as I could. We went back on two further days, but they had flown.
Good time to come in Don as I was going to mention you. We spent a couple of days in Kejimkuji, and we paddled a Canadian canoe, portaging our telephotos. And we didn't see a damn bird. It then poured with rain and we drove back early and discovered Grand Pre. It was really misty and there was intermittent rain. But, I came across a group of Cedar Waxwings, passing through the Unesco viewpoint. I took a load of shots of them feeding, and processed them as well as I could. We went back on two further days, but they had flown.
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The last day was our Golden wedding anniversary, and we spent the daytime in Grand Pre, mainly on Evangeline beach. It was glorious weather and at last I got some decent shots: Semipalmated Sandpipers and Plovers. And then, the crowning moment, which I have posted but I must repeat. A Golden Eagle flew above when having lunch at Le Caveau. Dinner at Gio's in the evening was really memorable.
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When the shorebirds are migrating, the mud flats there are insane! You can end up seeing 100,000 of a particular bird at one time! In the winter, Kentville has hundreds of bald eagles..... I love the area and can't wait till I get back again...AlanF said:
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Kedji isn't that good for birds.... I never seem to spot them there either
Nice pictures of the waxwings.... they are hard to get close enough to for a decent shot....
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