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A Gray Catbird at Avimor near Boise, Idaho
"Gray Catbirds are relatives of mockingbirds and thrashers, and they share that group’s vocal abilities, copying the sounds of other species and stringing them together to make their own song."
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Central Park, NYC, NY
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Central Park, NYC, NY
Explored 5/16/2017
Back to Tower Grove Park in the city, this visit featured lots of catbirds. I'm accustomed to seeing them as individuals, and there were perhaps a dozen seen during this visit.
A Gray Jay (Perisoreus canadensis) in the mixed boreal woods north of Thorhild, Alberta, Canada.
11 January, 2021.
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A Great Gray Owl (Strix nebulosa) reading peacefully on a post along the edge of the roadway in the boreal woods north of Opal, Alberta, Canada.
30 October, 2018.
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Taken near Fort Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
This local celebrity is a rare bird for the Vancouver area and a *lifer* for yours truly.
What happens when you get two days off in the middle of the week? Your rewarded with cold, gray, and overcast days. I went to a local lake thinking I would shoot some long exposures with these dead trees sticking out of the water but it turned out that the water was so still that all I needed to do was compose the image.
I found this area with some rocks above the water and played around with it. I ended up lightening up the foreground rocks to add an element to the viewer. Not sure if it works well or not but it was the best capture of the day. As always, thank you so much for viewing my images and commenting when you see fit. Take care.
Mike D.
Great Gray Owl (Strix nebulosa) patiently listening and waiting for some rustling of the grasses at the base of the perch by a rodent. This is in the boreal fringe near Thorhild, Alberta, Canada.
30 October, 2018.
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Walking in fog often provides a visual representation of my thought process. My brain constantly brings different topics into view, but in the process lets others slide into the periphery. Most of the time they are all still there, competing for my attention, but all in varying degrees. In fog I respond to the overall loss of clarity, but also the nuance that is created by relative distance. It's this layering effect I find most appealing as more distant objects eventually recede into nothingness...exactly the same as my mind reacts.
Walking outdoors this morning felt otherworldly. I love seeing familiar places rendered as ones I'm visiting for the very first time. A rich dichotomy as the serenity of fog is ripped apart by this visceral reaction. In these moments I invariably come up with camera angles that never would have occurred to me in normal circumstances.
Sometimes birds drop down right next toys when we are holding a camera. Such was the case with this catbird. I even forget what I was looking at when he appeared.
The Catbird nests across most of the US and southern Canada, and can be heard giving its cat-like whine or whimper as well as its imitations of other birds' sounds.
They are birds which I look forward to having back in the yard because of their cheerful appearance as well as their pseudo-enraged sound.
It has been raining continuously in Calgary for past three days, overcast and low light was discouraging but this great gray owl made the day. This owl was hunting and provided great opportunity to study and capture great moments, this is one of them.
On reconnait cet oiseau gris à sa calotte noirâtre et aux sous caudales rousses, parfois visibles.
Comme tous les moqueurs, il émet une kyrielle de sons et notamment un miaulement de chat.
We recognize this gray bird by its blackish cap and reddish undertail, sometimes visible.Like all mokingbirds, it emits a multitude of sounds and in particular a cat meow.
A long drive home from a funeral…charcoal smudges form the clouds above, reflecting emotions from the afternoon. Edges are blurred until an old sycamore and a fence line appear next to the country road in fine detail. Blurred lines and sharp points; such is life.
We went to northern Minnesota to see many different birds, but mostly to see a great gray owl.
On our second morning (-29 degrees Fahrenheit) we saw one sitting in a tree. We tried to keep a good distance so it wouldn't fly away.
I got out of the car* and started taking some pictures. After a couple minutes, the owl flew right toward us and landed in the snow about 20 yards away.
*When it's REALLY COLD out... I've found that taking pictures from a car just doesn't work too well. The heat-waves from inside the car, and radiating from the engine, distort the image and cause focus issues. -29 was quite an experience.
Dumetella Carolinensis
Yeah, a catbird. Got to be one of the most annoying birds out there, but, I couldn't pass up this perch and background.
New Britain, PA
The blue-gray tanager (thraupis episcopus) is a medium-sized South American songbird of the tanager family, Thraupidae. Its range is from Mexico south to northeast Bolivia and northern Brazil, all of the Amazon Basin, except the very south. The breeding habitat is open woodland, cultivated areas and gardens. The blue-gray tanager lives mainly on fruit, but will also take some nectar, insects and other arthropods.
Costa Rica, La Fortuna
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