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Mar 14, 2024

New photos from Dave Kemp on Vancouver Island...

CLAPPER RAIL


CINNAMON TEAL


BRANT GEESE
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BarrytheBirder

Mar 13, 2024

Red-winged Blackbirds are back...

Photo by BarrytheBirder
Red-winged Blackbirds have suddenly arrived throughout the King Township and Town of Aurora areas.   What a welcome sight and sound.
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Mar 9, 2024

Early spring birds...

Photos by BarrytheBirder
Turkey Vulture


American Robin

My lady friend Pat and I spotted two early spring species this past Thursday.
One was a Turkey Vulture soaring high above Delmanor Retirement Residence in Aurora.   We also spotted two robins on the ground around Delmanor.   Robin sightings are being reported all over southern Ontario these days..  Winter has almost disappeared and we are expecting temperatures next week between 10 and 15C.   Winter seems to have been almost non-existent temperature-wise with scant snow in the upper part of the greater Toronto area.   What else will an early spring bring?
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Mar 7, 2024

Some Great Blue Herons winter on B.C.'s west coast....

 

                                                                Photo by Dave Kemp

Great Blue Herons are found across Canada in summer but a few thousand stay on British Columbia's west coast in winter.  The one pictured above was seen recently on southern Vancouver Island.   It was photographed by B.C. photographer and naturalist Dave Kemp whose photos I regularly share in this blog space.   The number of Great Blues that winter in lower B.C. and thought to number in the low thousands.

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BarrytheBirder


 


Mar 4, 2024

King City ...

 

Photos by BarrytheBirder
Feeders full of Redpolls

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Mar 1, 2024

Perfect photo...

 Photographer Unknown

Hooded Merganser (female)
I don't remember how or where I came across this wonderful photograph of a landing female Common Merganser, but I think its one of the best duck photos I have ever seen of a waterfowl making a  perfect landing. 
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BarrytheBirder

Feb 29, 2024

Spring just around the corner on lower Vancouver Island...

Photos by Dave Kemp
Black Turnstone


 
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BarrytheBirder

Feb 27, 2024

Female Mallard Ducks

 

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Feb 26, 2024

So far, It's a short winter in southern Ontario

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Mourning Doves getting early spring start in Southern Ontario









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BarrytheBirder

Feb 25, 2024

Photos by Dave Kemp - Vancouver Island

Trumpeter Swans



Common Mergansers
Common Goldeneye
Long-tailed Duck
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BarrytheBirder

Feb 21, 2024

Blue Jay watching its back

Photo by BarrytheBirder

'...wise are the wary'

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BarrytheBirder

Feb 17, 2024

Great Backyard Bird Count underway

 


After only two days the 4 day annual global birding event known as The Great Backyard Bird Count has reached 134,101 checklists and 7,073 species have been identified.   Go to Cornell Lab of Ornithology for continuing results.

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BarrytheBirder

  

Feb 16, 2024

Vancouver Island Oystercatchers by Dave Kemp

OYSTERCATCHERS



Vancouver Island Glacier

WAXING MOON

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BarrytheBirder


Feb 11, 2024


Photos by BarrytheBirder


Winter gulls

on farm pond

near the Holland Marsh

in York Region

Ontario

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Feb 9, 2024

Goldeneyes on Vancouver Island, B.C.

Photos by Dave Kemp
 
Female Goldeneye

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BarrytheBirder

Feb 8, 2024

Bald Eagle on Vancouver Island...

 

Photos by Dave Kemp
The Catch by a Bald Eagle

Success
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BarrytheBirder

Feb 5, 2024

Some of my favourite Juncos pictures...

 



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Feb 4, 2024

Vancouver Island - early February




Common Goldeneyes
Photos by Dave Kemp



Trumpeter Swans




Surf & White-winged Scoters

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BarrytheBirder