Happy Halloween.🕷️🕸️

 

A Dark-eyed Junco pausing and reflecting on a headstone.

Just thinking about stuff.

 

The B-25 Mitchell Bomber fresh off a football game flyover.

 

A juvenile White-crowned Sparrow.

 

My ball cap, the one with the fish logo, came under some uncomfortably intense scrutiny.

 

The Rusty Blackbird.

 

Haha, good one.

I tried to keep the promise I made to myself that I wouldn't take another Red-winged Blackbird photo unless it had visible vapour drifting out of its beak but...

 

A Cedar Waxwing enjoying the blue berries of this Canaerti Red Cedar.

Black-capped Chickadee.

 

This Great Egret had to dig deep into the mire to pluck out its afternoon snack.

 

You gotta love a bird that lives up to its name. Like this very photogenic White-throated Sparrow.

 

An Osprey hoping nobody will notice that the catfish she just "caught" was already long dead and starting to decompose.

 

An Eastern Phoebe looking a little bit cute.

 

Ruby-crowned Kinglets, each with a faint wisp of ruby showing.

Dundas, ON
 

A Blue Jay taking a break from harassing the hawks.

 

I felt a bit bad for the folks in the far bleachers. Missing out on the view behind them and all.

 Tim Hortons Field

The Bruce Trail is such a gem at any time of the year but it seems a little extra special in the fall. Especially when you get to see some falls

 Rockway Falls, Lincoln, ON.

A Great Blue Heron doing a low altitude pass. Great Blue Herons have a wingspan of up to five feet (1.5m). Not always easy to fit all five of those feet in the frame (e.g. photo 2).😊

 

An Osprey giving us a nice view of the entire undercarriage.

 

White-throated Sparrow. Of the hundreds of these guys I saw yesterday, just one popped onto a branch long enough for s snapshot. The rest of them stuck to scuttling around in the underbrush and in the dirt on the trail.

 

Big swan drip.

 

I don't have a Thanksgiving turkey photo to contribute but how about a really regal-looking Turkey Vulture instead? Happy 🇨🇦 Thanksgiving!

 

A Chestnut-sided Warbler that popped into the backyard for a few moments.

 

Lake Superior sunset.

 Pukaskwa National Park

A Great Egret cruising gracefully to its next fishing spot.

 

A Peregrine Falcon making sure I got some nice views of its tail fanning display.

 Burlington, ON.

Black-capped Chickadee popping nicely against Nature's autumn pallette.

 

When we arrived at Grasslands National Park back in August, our main hope was to catch a glimpse of a bison or two. So, imagine our amazement and delight when a whole herd we saw in the distance wandered right to where we were parked. The fourth photo shows one beauty crossing the road between our vehicles.

 

A Merlin nibbling on one of the dragonflies it nabbed in midair over a wetland.