ANOTHER BIRD PHOTO: NORTHERN CARDINAL

   After posting the photos from Lake Wilcox Park, Sharon and I took our dog Kenya for a walk.  On top of the tallest tree in the neighborhood we spotted a Northern Cardinal.

NORTHERN CARDINAL

BIRD PHOTOS OF THE DAY: ANOTHER VISIT TO LAKE WILCOX PARK

   Sharon and I visited Lake Wilcox Park again today.  Here are some of the birds we sighted and photographed :

• Great Blue Heron
• Eastern Kingbird
• Canada Goose
• Song Sparrow

ABOVE 4 PHOTOS: GREAT BLUE HERON

EASTERN KINGBIRD

ABOVE 2 PHOTOS: CANADA GEESE

ABOVE 2 PHOTOS: SONG SPARROW

PHOTOS OF THE DAY: LAKE WILCOX PARK, RICHMOND HILL, ON

   Today Sharon and I took Kenya for a walk in Lake Wilcox Park in Richmond Hill, ON.  The park has been around a long time, but had recently been modernized.  Construction is still ongoing, but what had been completed is great.  There are plenty of benches, vieeing areas of the lake and magnificent metal scultures of animals, including many birds.

   

   We sighted and photographed the following birds :

• Tree Swallow
• Eastern Kingbird
• Cedar Waxwing
• Female Red-winged Blackbird
• Mallards
• Ring-billed Gulls

   The Eastern Kingbird was a first for us, so we added it to our Life List, which now stands at 128.

ABOVE 2 PHOTOS: TREE SWALLOW

ABOVE 2 PHOTOS: EASTERN KINGBIRD

ABOVE 3 PHOTOS : CEDAR WAXWING



FEMALE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD

ABOVE 2 PHOTOS: MALLARDS

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ABOVE 2 PHOTOS: RING-BILLED GULLS

BIRD PHOTOS OF THE DAY: PORT PERRY, ON

      Today Sharon and I went to Port Perry, ON, which is on Lake Scugog.  It started to rain on the way and by the time we got there it was pouring rain.  We had lunch and luckily it stopped raining.  However, it was very windy, which made photography difficult.
   The highlight of the afternoon was the sighting of an osprey.  It was flying around and finally found a fish for lunch.  We saw it from the Scugog Causeway (Route 7A).  We managed to photograph it flying and after it had caught the fish and landed.
   We sighted and photographed the following birds:

• Osprey
• European Starling, both breeding adults and a juvenile
• American Robin
• Red-winged Blackbird

ABOVE 5 PHOTOS: OSPREY
OSPREY IS FLYING, IT CATCHES A
FISH AND LAND & THEN STARTS
EATING 

ABOVE 3 PHOTOS: EUROPEAN STARLING
TOP 2 PHOTOS: ADULTS IN BREEDING PLUMAGE
LOWER PHOTO: JUVENILE

AMERICAN ROBIN

MALE RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD

ADDITIONAL BIRD PHOTOS FROM PANAMA

Here are more bird photos from our trip to Panama:

• Variable Seedeater
• Willet
• Laughing Gull in breeding plumage
• Female Bronzed Cowbird
• Palm Tanager

There are still a few more birds I'm trying to identify.  Of the above birds the Variable Seedeater and the Palm Tanager are new species for my Life List.

ABOVE 2 PHOTOS: VARIABLE SEEDEATER
TOP: MALE  BOTTOM: MALE ON LEFT,
FEMALE ON RIGHT

WILLET

LAUGHING GULL IN BREEDING PLUMAGE

FEMALE BRONZED COWBIRD

ABOVE 2 PHOTOS: PALM TANAGER

PHOTOS FROM YESTERDAY AT RICHMOND GREEN PARK

   Yesterday afternoon Sharon and I took our dog Kenya for a walk in Richmond Green Park.  In the pond we came across a famale Mallard with her brood of chicks.

Here are their photos plus some other photos.

ABOVE 2 PHOTOS: FEMALE MALLARD
AND CHICKS

ABOVE 2 PHOTOS: RING-BILLED GULL

ABOVE 2 PHOTOS: FEMALE RED-WINGED
BLACKBIRD

SHARON & KENYA


FLOWERS AT RICHMOND GREEN PARK