Vancouver Island birds by Dave Kemp...

 

Common Loon

Semi-palmated Sandpipers

Red-breasted Merganser

 

Sea Lion

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Horned Grebes - Vancouver Island...

 

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Horned Grebes

(Podiceps auritus)

Summers in North-western Canada

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Finch on Vancouver Island by Dave Kemp...

Photos by Dave Kemp

Zebra Finch

B.C. photographer Dave Kemp captured this Zebra Finch photo on Vancouver Island recently. Zebra Finches live in large flocks in its native habitat of the arid areas of Australia, Indonesia and East Timor.   This Zebra Finch photographed by Dave Kemp is most likely an escaped caged bird.   The Zebra finches are two species of the Estrildid Finch in the genus Taeniopygia.

Below are some recent butterfly photo from Vancouver Island, By Dave Kemp.

   

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Osprey on the Ravenshoe Sideroad...

 

Photo by BarrytheBirder

The photo above was taken by me in the baseball park on the Ravenshoe Sideroad, south of Lake Simcoe.   It shows a mature Osprey bird in the centre and first-year birds on each side.   The Osprey have already returned to this location and there are usually excellent views of these grand birds to be seen at the ball diamonds and at other spots along the sideroad. 

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Red-winged Blackbird (female)

 

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Female Cardinal and Female Red-winged Blackbird

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Osprey on the Ravenshoe Sideroad

 

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More Butterfly World on Vancouver Island by Dave Kemp...

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Common Blue Morpho

 

Malachite Siproeta Stelenes

Orange Julia

Atlas Moth

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Big birds on the Ravenshoe Sideroad...

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I spotted at least five Osprey

on the Ravenshoe Sideroad at the south end of Lake Simcoe this past weekend.  In the same area were also Great Blue Herons, a Pileated Woodpecker, and two Turkey Vultures being chased by Crows.   Several Osprey nests along the sideroad are beginning to be occupied.

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BUTTERFLY WORLD COOMBS

Photos by Dave Kemp

Dave Kemp, of Vancouver Island, B.C., a frequent contributor of bird photos to this BarrytheBirder blog, visited the seasonal opening day at Butterfly World in Coombs on Vancouver Island.   Below are several of his photos taken at this well-known facility.

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Vancouver Island birds by Dave Kemp...

 Photos by Dave Kemp

Boreal Chickadee

The Boreal Chickadee (Poecile hudsonica) is a dusty brown chickadee of the northern forests.   It is mainly found in Canada, up to Alaska.   In some winters, small numbers wander south of their range and are casually recorded south to Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, northern Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.

Common Loon

Gavia Immer

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Turkey Vultures welcome spring...

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Light as a feather...

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4 most numerous bird species on planet Earth*

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  No. 1 ~ House Sparrow

          No. 2 ~ European Starling

    No. 3 ~ Ring-billed Gull

No. 4 ~ Barn Swallow

*From 2021 research by Corey Callaghan at the University of New South       Wales in Australia and reported by Adam Vaughan, of NewScientist.

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Black Brant Ducks by Dave Kemp off Vancouver Island...

 Photo by Dave Kemp

A small, dark stock sea goose (primarily coastal) seen mostly in northern Canada.   They fly in ragged formations and are rarely seen inland but some are seen in migrations through the Great Lakes and Appalachian regions in the fall.(Also known as 'American Brant' in the east).

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Vancouver Island ducks...

Photos by Dave Kemp

Buffleheads

Long-tailed Duck

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Loons off Vancouver Island's east coast...

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Common Loons

(during molt)

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Tree Swallows displace Bluebirds...

 

Photo by Barry Wallace

While Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) often precede Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor) to nesting boxes in the spring, they are very often displaced from nesting boxes by Tree Swallows.   Starlings and House Sparrows are also known to displace nesting bluebirds.   Specially designed birdboxes have resulted in a comeback by bluebirds, but Tree Swallows usually prevail in open woodlands, orchards and farmlands and parks with nesting boxes.   The photo above was taken at Cold Creek Conservation Area in King Township, north of Toronto, Ontario.

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Black & White Warbler - one of the earliest spring migrants

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(Mniotilta varia)

This is the only warbler that regularly creeps along branches and up and down tree trunks like a nuthatch.

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