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Surf Scoters....winter refugees |
commotion...but no crows in sight |
behaviour interpretation ??? |
departing flourish |
supercropped from previous image |
Kingfisher..... perched over Spanish Banks shore |
aah ! |
instant after launch from fir tree-tip |
just balancing again |
hunting seagull |
crow...finally, almost springlike ambient light !!! |
female changing branch location |
resident pair duet..a .frequent performance |
posing on tidal sandflats |
windblown on high perch |
balancing in wind |
Pileated Woodpecker |
imaged again at higher location |
instant after takeoff |
(another) juvenile bald eagle at Spanish Banks beach |
..brief hopping flight |
corvid pests !! |
claiming a small clump of thin tree roots and possibly seaweed |
yellow rumped warbler |
redwinged blackbird in mid-song |
rear view...red-winged blackbird in mid-songburst |
tree swallow...spring plumage |
Anna's Hummingbird |
Anna's Hummer |
Anna's Hummer "flashing" |
Anna's Hummer |
Merged families. |
merged families' goslings |
repeat performance of post-bathing ritual |
drying off after bath |
population explosion...Canada Geese |
heading to shore.. |
another flight out of nest...Tree Swallow |
backlit tree swallow exiting same nest |
another exit flight |
Tree Swallow posing |
Sapsucker, Courtenay BC |
Sapsucker |
growing 2022 babies |
Northern Flicker |
Heron... hunting |
heron poised to strike |
shaking and fluffing plumage to expel water |
Osprey...resting after large meal |
Anna's Hummingbird....feeding on Salvia blossoms |
Anna's Hummingbird at "cigar plant" |
Anna's Hummingbird |
Anna's Hummingbird at Salvia blooms |
Anna's Hummngbird sampling another Salvia bloom |
Bushtit on Willow |
Anna's Hummingbird...again |
Heron rubbing neck and beak |
one-wing stretch, one leg balance |
posing ? |
anna's hummingbird at "cigar" plant |
cigar plant visitor again |
Anna's at Salvia |
early autumn hunting |
success...one small capture |
peculiar heron display |
2nd heron a bit later...similar peculiar display |
Short-billed Dowitcher |
short-billed Dowitcher |
heron with another captured minnow..it's daily menu here |
heron fishing...for hours here, every day |
Steller's Jay |
serene Canada Geese on disappearing pond |
Snow Geese |
snow geese..most of flock just resting |
Snow Geese...short flight along shore |
grazing Snow Geese |
mallard drakes gathering |
posing in the poplars |
posing in pond shore tangle |
still at ponds as solstice approaches... |
sparrow waiting it's turn at feeder |
Barrow's Goldeneyes |