Here are some of the most popular images from my Facebook Page for the month of March. Lots of birds this month since the landscape isn’t very photogenic as winter winds down. Enjoy!
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Landscape photography can be challenging as spring arrives so it’s a great time to head to the wetlands and look for birds to photograph. Bohemian waxwings are one of my favourite subjects as they’re quite striking. They love to feed on berries which they gobble down with enthusiasm! Here are two that I shot during a trip to Miners Marsh in Kentville, NS.
Sure it’s just a common Black Duck but what a performance!
This enterprising red squirrel tunnelled through the snow to a strategic location right under the bird feeder. He looks quite pleased with himself, doesn’t he?
No, it’s not a bad hair day in the blue jay world. I think it was putting on a display for me to let me know how brave it was.
If you head to the wetlands on a calm, cold morning you might get lucky and capture a bird breath photo like this one. It took me a few trips but I finally managed to get one last spring.
Lobster traps, fishing boats, fog… does it get any more Nova Scotian than this?
Looks like a perfect fisherman’s getaway cottage, doesn’t it?
A flock of goldfinches descended upon our bird feeder during an early spring snowstorm. I managed to capture a couple of cute portrait shots while they were here.
Chickadees are one of my absolute favourite birds! This fellow perched beside my head as I was shooting the goldfinches you see above. I felt like it was giving me pointers.
It’s a challenge to capture a good photo of a cardinal as they’re either WAY up in the treetops or hiding among a tangle of branches as they forage for food. This fellow was kind enough to perch on top of a branch for his portrait shot. He let me approach him quite closely before he flew off to join his mate who was hiding in a nearby bush. I moved along so as not to bother them any more while they went about their business.
It’s hard for non-morning people like me to get up early to shoot the sunrise but it’s worth it when it looks like this! The ocean was unusually calm this morning which made it eerily quiet.
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Great photos of birds! We have Cardinals, Red-Winged Blackbirds, Chickadees, & Goldfinches come to our feeders in winter. Also hordes of Sparrows of various kinds and a lot of Finches, 2 pairs of Mourning Doves, and a pair of very fat Pigeons. The Pigeons, one with a light gray back and darker lower feathers and the other with dark above and light gray feathers below, have been coming back for 3 years now. We also have a Coopers Hawk who flies in every few days to try to surprise a bird and grab lunch. The others all disappear in a rush, except for the Chickadees. They sit in our big Lilac tree and scold until the Hawk leaves.
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WOW! That’s a lot of different birds.
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We live near Lake Michigan in Chicago, a flyway for migrating birds. The weather near the lakefront is somewhat warmer in winter usually than further out from the lake. So that encourages overwintering birds to stay around here. The Blackbirds will disappear to the lakefront to nest as soon as the days become reliably warmer. The city began several years ago to plant native grasses and let the lakefront land become less manicured. There are also a lot of trees along the lakefront as well as throughout our neighborhood, which helps.
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Sounds amazing!
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