Canadian birds

[nats1mom]

Juvenile Black-crowned night heron

++WOW!

 

[nats1mom]

Baltimore Oriole

Love, love the first photo (all are great)!

 

[nats1mom]

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.

Great shots Alan!

 

[nats1mom]

Great Blue Heron

Beautiful!

 

[nats1mom]

Great Blue Herons are always nice to shoot.....

Great capture, especially the water splashing!

 

[Click]

Thank you, nats1mom.

 

[7DmkI]

Very nice series. Thanks Alan for starting it. Let me contribute, too. Starlings.

 

[Don Haines]

Very nice series. Thanks Alan for starting it. Let me contribute, too. Starlings.

Nice!

 

[7DmkI]

Very nice series. Thanks Alan for starting it. Let me contribute, too. Starlings.

Nice!

Thanks, Don.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Don.
That is a good shot, but the caption really makes the photo, thanks for a good laugh.
Also Click and Alan beautiful shots, thanks for sharing.

Cheers, Graham.

We also have Red-winged Blackbirds, known for their habit of swooping down and carrying off deer......

 

[Click]

Thanks for the kind words, Graham.

 

[Click]

Very nice series. Thanks Alan for starting it. Let me contribute, too. Starlings.

Very nice shots, 7DmkI.

 

[dpc]

Crows

 

[dpc]

American goldfinch

 

[7DmkI]

Very nice series. Thanks Alan for starting it. Let me contribute, too. Starlings.

Very nice shots, 7DmkI.

Thanks, Click.

 

[dpc]

Black-billed magpie. Unfortunately, the background is rather busy but I couldn't do much about that. I've had a heck of a time getting a good shot of these birds, abundant though they are.

 

[dpc]

Mallards puddling around on the swampy margins of a British Columbia lake. The yellowish-green atmospheric colour is due to smoke from forest fires.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi dpc.
I really like this shot, the busy background does not detract, rather it adds context. Love the way you caught the iridescent colours on the tail feathers, well done.

Cheers, Graham.

Black-billed magpie. Unfortunately, the background is rather busy but I couldn't do much about that. I've had a heck of a time getting a good shot of these birds, abundant though they are.

 

[Click]

American goldfinch

I really like the second picture. Well done, dpc.

 

[AlanF]

My best of an American Goldfinch, taken in Peggy's Cove, using a Tamron 150-600mm on a 5DIII.