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Very nice - on my wish list to see/shoot since they say they exist in Alberta but where??
Jack
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If you are ever silly enough to go to Ottawa, you can find them in several spots downtown.Very nice - on my wish list to see/shoot since they say they exist in Alberta but where??
Jack
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For me just add snow and more snow.Nice photo Alan. Add some snow, mud and a cold rain and that could have been shot in my neighbourhood. Also, I would need a green sandpiper .
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When I was about 6, birds of Canada cards were contained in my mother's tea purchases and this one became imprinted in my brain; oh how I wanted to see it. Alas, our travels were not very far from home and I'm not sure any ever show up around Edmonton anyway.
I guess I could come to honour our PM and visit parliament and then secondarily go looking for ducks to shoot. Guess which would be the highlight of the trip.
Jack
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Here are a few for you from near my place. The female is not quite as colourful as the male....When I was about 6, birds of Canada cards were contained in my mother's tea purchases and this one became imprinted in my brain; oh how I wanted to see it. Alas, our travels were not very far from home and I'm not sure any ever show up around Edmonton anyway.
I guess I could come to honour our PM and visit parliament and then secondarily go looking for ducks to shoot. Guess which would be the highlight of the trip.
Jack
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Nice catches Alan and Don! We don't have these even as a rare vagrants. Yesterday I made a walk in the neighborhood: two different juveniles of the White Tern and Common Waxbill collecting material for a nest...
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Nice pictures ISv! It looks warm out, up here we have three feet of snow on the ground and it snowed today.... again.... About the only colourful birds I have around here now are Cardinals and Blue Jays, and they look cold, but not as cold as the squirrel patiently waiting for scraps below the feeders......
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Just went out on the off chance this afternoon and took the 400mm DO II + 1.4xTC on the 5DSR not expecting anything but it turned out to be a feast of kingfishers. First, a male caught a fish and called over the female and transferred the fish to her. You can see he his holding the fish face forward in his beak, for transfer, not swallowing.
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