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Cruising the spring shoreline offers a myriad of photo ops, the eye moving from spot to spot, the ear taking in the variety of sounds a wilderness provides. The challenge always becomes one of deciding which image of many deserves further attention after initial review...as well as keeping the canoe stable and in position for the shot. Here an example in which I tried to avoid ripples from the canoe while avoiding moving into the scene itself. (SOOC)
The woodlark is a streaky brown bird, with a buffy-white eye-stripe which meets across the nape. It has a well-developed crest on its crown which is not always conspicuous. In flight the peculiarly short tail and broad, rounded wings are noticeable and the deeply undulating flight with closed wing glides is characteristic.
A gadwall is seen here on its final approach as it glides towards its landing.
Photo taken the other day at St Aidans Nature Reserve.
One more pelican shot from my visit last month to Dixon, Illinois, where I saw a number of these birds congregated on the river that flows through town. I think this is the last one.
HCS!
Just at sunset a swan glided over to where I was taking photographs, paused for a minute and then quietly disappeared into the darkness on the right. LaSalle Park marina, Burlington, Ontario.
Great Blue Heron
Gliding over the lagoon surface looking for fertile hunting grounds at sunset - Fort DeSoto - St. Pete, FL.
Brown Pelican
From Cornell:
Though they have an awkward gait on land, Brown Pelicans are strong swimmers and masterful fliers. They fly to and from their fishing grounds in V-formations or lines just above the water’s surface. They and the closely related Peruvian Pelican are the only pelican species to perform spectacular head-first dives (typically ending in a huge splash visible from far away) to trap fish. Pelicans usually forage during the day, but may feed at night during a full moon. Before swallowing their prey they drain the water from their pouches, while gulls or terns often try to steal fish right out of their beaks.
Fort DeSoto
There is a small lagoon just off the Northern most Gulf of Mexico beach where a large number of diverse birds spend the hour just before sunset getting their last meal of the day - that's where i took this photo.
Battersea Power Station. Seasonal events in front of the building including fairground rides and the 'Glide' ice rink. The glow at the top of the right-hand chimney is the 'Lift 109' glass elevator emerging (109 metres high).
BLE 906 comes around the bend about to glide under highway 37 with a mostly empty limestone train from U.S. Steel Minntac back to Proctor. #YBSNature21
Low flying clouds glide through the narrows of Vancouver Bay as the Lions Gate Bridge lights up the night.
...looks very much like summer, only cooler.
Deseret Power Railway's morning loads glides through the gentle reverse S-curve at milepost 17.5, near Dinosaur, Colorado. In a little less than an hour, after a brief delay for MoW ahead, the train will unload its black diamonds at the Bonanza Power Plant in Bonanza, UT.
Hard to believe that only three hours earlier, I was driving over two mountain passes in blowing snow.
It's so good to see the White Pelicans back in Colorado. Some stay all year but struggle with the weather.
Oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus)
Ardmucknish Bay - Scotland
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