Long-tailed Duck coming in hot.

 

Wolf moon over the harbour.

 

Hooded Merganser letting everyone know he's here.

 

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White-tailed Deer.

 

Downy Woodpecker checking in on her neighbour, the Eastern Screech Owl.

 

Immature Trumpeter Swan adjusting its tail feathers / blowing bubbles.

 

Northern Cardinal on her favourite backyard perch... just a short flit to the birdfeeder

 The Backyard 

Long-tailed duck (male) zipping by like a dart.

 

Common Goldeneye doing his vigorous little woo display.

 

Northern Pintail preening for the paparazzi.

 

When you have food stuck to your lip but you really don't give two Schitt$.

 

My best guess is...a Mallard x Muscovy Duck hybrid. Regardless of its heritage, he/she is a handsome specimen.

 

The forest was teeming with robins and starlings that have stuck around this winter but the only bird that popped out for a brief photo op was this Cedar Waxwing.

 

A Greater Scaup get sucker-pecked then forced off his rock by a nasty Canada Goose. The Scaup was completely minding his own business and did not deserve to get goosed so aggressively, in my opinion.

 

Hooded Merganser with a wee catfish, a far more manageable meal than the one from previous posts.

 

This Hooded Merganser worked on that fish for quite a while before giving up and letting her fella have it. Pretty sure he didn't fare any better.

 

Hooded Mergansers: She caught a hefty fish and he REALLY wanted her to share.

Hamilton Harbour

Great Black-backed Gull.

 Hamilton Harbour.

Northern Pintail with the sleek beak.

 LaSalle Marina, Burlington, ON.

Red trestle at night, photographer's delight.

 

Seems like every time we go for a stroll these days I get a tight view of a Northern Mockingbird. I'm not complaining, they're quite a handsome bird.

 

The Northern Pintail is quite pretty in any light but it's cool to see how their look changes as the light changes.