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This image was captured January last year. Sky's like this have been rare this year. I look every afternoon for clouds like these.
Fairly large shorebird with bright yellow legs. Plumage is essentially identical to Lesser Yellowlegs: gray upperparts with white speckling, streaky neck, and white belly. Proportions are most important for identification. Greater is larger overall with longer, thicker, more upturned bill, longer neck, blockier head, and bigger chest. Forages actively on mudflats and in shallow pools and marshes, often in loose mixed flocks with Lesser Yellowlegs. Somewhat more likely to be found in larger, more open habitats than Lesser, but much overlap. Listen for strong, ringing “tew tew tew!” calls, louder than Lesser, and usually three or four notes instead of one or two (though Greater can also give single notes). (eBird)
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We were surprised to find an adult in breeding plumage still in southern Ontario. At this time of year, most yellowlegs are up in their arctic breeding grounds.
Minesing Wetlands, Angus, Ontario, Canada. June 2023.
Panamint Valley
Mojave Desert near Death valley
Every day was a different sky. The temperature was cold and the air was filled with the smell of wet desert.
Un visiteur toujours fidèle, durant la saison hivernale, à la mangeoire où il peut trouver la nourriture riche en matières grasses qui l'aide passer ce moment de l'année difficile pour tous les Passereaux.
The burial mounds on the Regte Heide date from the Bronze Age (ca. 1750 BC). One burial mound has a ring wall with a dry ditch. Burial mounds were used as burial grounds. It is believed that these mounds were used not only to give the dead a final resting place, but also for worship. The burial mounds in this nature reserve were first excavated in 1935 and then reconstructed. Around 5 burial mounds, the pile wreaths known from the excavations were restored. Visit our museum in Goirle for extensive information about the burial mounds.
De Regte Heide is a heath area of Brabant Landscape measuring 250 hectares in the municipality of Goirle. It is located south of Tilburg in the province of North Brabant near the border with Belgium.
Large finch, nearly twice the size of a goldfinch. Stocky with strong, thick, pale bill and short, notched tail. Males are stunning with dark head fading to bright yellow underparts, and mostly black wings with bright white secondaries. Females are overall gray with some white on the wing. Flocks often come to feeders for sunflower seeds. Found in forested regions especially at higher elevations. Populations declining dramatically. (eBird)
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Finding these lovely finches in Ottawa has become far more difficult over the years. We get the occasional irruption when they visit, but more usually we have to head out to Algonquin Park to see them, as we did for this photo. We make a regular January visit to the park for the various winter visitors.
Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. January 2024.
Irvine Regional Park
I went to see the pumpkin patch and explore the park. A kind man asked me if I knew about the Owl and I told him I did not. He asked, do you want to see it? You know the answer to that question.
I haven't been to Irvine park for over a decade. I'm glad I went back and rediscovered what this park has to offer.
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The common oriole in the eastern U.S., wintering to northern South America. Adult males are stunning: bright orange with a black head and bold white wingbar. Females vary from yellowish to bright orange below, often with blotchy black on the head. Breeds in deciduous trees in open woodlands, forest edges, orchards, riversides, parks, and backyards. Listen for rich whistled song. Visits feeders with nectar and fruits. Females can be very difficult to distinguish from Bullock's Oriole, and hybrids do occur. Baltimore is usually brightest on the breast, not the face. (eBird)
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This male oriole was taking advantage of a spider's fly collection for his breakfast. The web was proving to be surprisingly stretchy, but he prevailed and enjoyed his meal.
Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada. May 2025.
Here we go
On this roller coaster life we know
With those crazy highs and real deep lows
I really don't know why
And I will go
To the farthest place on earth I know
I can travel all the road, you see
'Cause I know you're there with me
You don't have to slow me down
'Cause I will always be around
I will find my way back home
Where magnolia grows, where magnolia grows
Danny Vera - "Roller Coaster"
But I guess you know
Why I do what I do and where I go
I try to fill that empty space inside
But I can't do that without you
You're even with me in my dreams
I see a sail, the seven seas
I will try to find my way
You're always there tomorrow, you're always there tomorrow
Here we go
On this roller coaster life we know
With those crazy highs and real deep lows
I really don't know why
And I will go
To the farthest place on earth I know
I can travel all the road, you see
'Cause I know you're there with me
You don't have to slow me down
'Cause I will always be around
I will find my way back home
Where magnolia grows, where magnolia grows
Here we go
On this roller coaster life we know
With those crazy highs and real deep lows
I really don't know why
And I will go
To the farthest place on earth I know
I can travel all the road, you see
'Cause I know you're there with me
Here we go
On this roller coaster life we know
I can travel all the road, you see
'Cause I know you're there with me
'Cause I know, oh I know
You're there with me
Songwriters: Danny Polfliet / John J H Verhoeven
Songteksten voor Roller Coaster © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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One of the most common and widespread sparrows in North America. Fairly large with a long, rounded tail. Overall coarsely patterned with gray and brown, usually with more reddish-brown wings and tail. Look especially for thick brown streaks on the underparts and a broad dark mustache stripe. Significant variation in plumage geographically: relatively pale and rusty in the southwestern U.S.; blacker streaking in California; overall dusky in the Pacific Northwest. Larger, longer-tailed and usually more rusty than Savannah Sparrow. Found in a variety of scrubby habitats both near and far from human development, especially edges of fields, often near water. Listen for husky "chimp" calls and melodic song with chips and trills. (eBird)
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This little sparrow obviously had a nest full of hungry young ones nearby as he waited for us to move along before delivering lunch. Most birds are very secretive about the locations of their nests and will not go to them if there are predators (including humans) nearby.
Carden Alvar Provincial Park, Kawartha Lakes, Onario, Canada. June 2025.
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A medium-sized, short-tailed sparrow. Extensive plumage variation across range, but always streaky. Usually shows distinctive yellow patch in front of eye, but this can be indistinct or absent on some individuals. Some populations in California and Baja have larger bills and more muted gray streaking; others are very dark and boldly streaked. “Ipswich” Sparrow on the Atlantic Coast is paler with unique buffy-pinkish tones. Almost always found in open areas, from meadows and hayfields to tundra and coastal dunes. Tends to be found in more open habitats than Song Sparrow; also smaller and shorter-tailed. (eBird)
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A common little sparrow, but one that always makes me smile. Often perched on a post like this on the edges of a field or grassland. I love to hear them sing in the spring as they are one of the earlier arrivals each year.
Carden Alvar Provincal Park, Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada. June 2025.
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The monarch is a milkweed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. The eastern North American monarch population is notable for its annual southward late-summer/autumn instinctive migration from the northern and central United States and southern Canada to Florida and Mexico. During the fall migration, monarchs cover thousands of miles, with a corresponding multigenerational return north in spring. The western North American population of monarchs west of the Rocky Mountains often migrates to sites in southern California, but individuals have been found in overwintering Mexican sites, as well. Non-migratory populations are found further south in the Americas, and in parts of Europe, Oceania, and Southeast Asia. (Wikipedia)
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The Monarchs were gathering at the park in early September, in preparation for their journey to Mexico. Several landed on this thistle to take a drink before heading off across Lake Ontario. A very beautiful sight that distracted me from my main task at hand - identifying shore birds.
Owen Point, Presqu'ile Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. September 2024.
Eastern Ontario Birding.