Osprey

 

Photos by BarrytheBirder

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Vancouver Island photos from Dave Kemp...

                                                                         Photos by Dave Kemp

Long-tailed Ducks

Cormorant with a small Cutthroat Trout

Sea Lions

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B.C. female Hooded Mergansers by Dave Kemp...

Hooded Merganser

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Personification of Mother Nature the artist

 

Photographer unknown

Ice Hummingbird

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Seasonal activity off Vancouver Island...

 

Photos by Dave Kemp

Herring season gets underway

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Dave Kemp Vancouver Island bird photos ... 2002 in review

 

Pictured here are twelve birds that were photographed by Dave Kemp of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, during 2002 and which were featured in this birding blog throughout the year.   Many thanks Dave for sharing your terrific images.

Intrepid Mourning Doves...

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Winter stalwarts

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Winter 'Woodies'...

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DOWNY WOODPECKER

Above and below

HAIRY WOODPECKER

Above and below

PILEATED WOODPECKER

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Vancouver Island photos from Dave Kemp...

Photos by Dave Kemp

Northern Harrier

(Circus cyaneus)

Tufted Duck 

(Aythya fuligula)

American Dipper

(Circlus mexicanus)

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Bird carving - 'Ardea alba'

This is one of my favourite bird carvings collected over the past may years.   Unfortunately I lost track of the carver's name, but I purchased it at a countryside studio near Fergus, Ontario.   The life-sized carving (39" tall) is of a breeding Great Egret.

It is distinguished from most other white herons by large size, and from the white morph of the larger Great Blue Heron by black legs and feet.   Common in protected wetlands in southern Ontario.

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Cold King Township field...

Photo by BarrytheBirder

 Canada Geese Gleaning

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Jamaica scenes...

Photos by BarrytheBirder

Bananaquit

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A few years ago... and today

      Photos by Barry Wallace

Looking south at Bathurst Street (above and at left) at the south-east corner of the Holland Marsh, not so long ago.

Below, looking south on Bathurst Street, after it was pushed and paved up over the King Ridge and became a major traffic corridor between Newmarket and Aurora, and Bradford

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Foraging on a fence...

 

Photo by BarrytheBirder

Crow with a morsel

(Corvus brachyrhynchos)

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More of Dave Kemp's Vancouver Island pictures...

Photos by Dave Kemp

Long-tailed Duck

Scoters

Sea lion

Sculpted by the sea

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16th Sideroad of King Township...

 

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BARRED OWL

(Strix varia)

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