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 portait of patience |
 heron " featherscape " |
 Barrow's Goldeneyes |
 almost asleep....Mallard drake |
 Barrows Goldeneye flock |
 crow foraging in marsh |
 heron portrait....surveying a frozen pond |
 heron feather detail |
 heron portrait..another full frame view |
 heron feather detail |
 preparing to dip toes into pond |
 chaotic arrival...small flock of American Widgeon ducks |
 crows at Jericho Park |
 heron perch |
 sub-freezing walk, puffed feather coat |
 " flight of the widgeons " |
 preparing to land |
 ringed bill gulls |
 Glaucous winged adult(L) and juvenile(R) |
 spiky rushes "sculpture"...and spiky heron plumage |
 red-winged blackbird..."it's breeding season" |
 breeding display...red-winged blackbird |
 american widgeon flock skimming the waves |
 the orchestra conductor makes their dramatic entrance |
 the tension mounts, the fidgeting stops, the soloist is ready... |
 the performance begins |
 shifting one-leg balance from L to R |
 imaculately clean gull.... a portrait |
 stalking tension |
 preening in a choice location ? |
 regular visitor... |
 precarious preening |
 freshly preened plumage |
 still stalking |
 ??? |
 post-preening episode |
 very young ducklings...brood of 9 on land |
 ducklings on pond |
 brood of 9 ducklings...following mom |
 evening "golden lighting" on pond guardians |
 carrying a dead cormorant |
 theatrical preening |
 tree swallow arrival for nesting chick |
 tree swallow feeding chick |
 tree swallow...off for more food |
 mid-morning time to scratch |
 one-wing stretch |
 flight to neighbouring rock |
 low flight for a few seconds |
 streamlined flight |
 flight.... leaving pond area |
 return flight to original pond area |
 descending for landing |
 breeding season display |
 sleepy summer morning.. |
 (probably) a juvenile heron |
 Least Sandpiper |
 daily cormorant flight out to sea |
 solo cormorant heading out to sea |
 House Finch |
 Cooper's Hawk |
 Cooper's Hawk |
 snow geese.....landing approach |
 snow geese pair.....landing approach |
 snow geese approach to landing |
 sandpiper flock |
 leaning into the wind |