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Ottawa - After six failed attempts to be present when this bird showed, I was finally successful. It had a schedule which tended to be two to three days on and two to three days off and if you guessed wrong you'd be out of luck that day. Yesterday I guessed right. We worked with the bird for an hour at the end of the day. Each trip is 1 hr 45 minutes so it is a significant time commitment but with a result like this and a bird that you often have to back up from to shoot it was worth it. Onlookers have grown over the winter with up to 70 Saturday. We had about 20 yesterday.
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| Date: April 7, 2019 |
| Details: Adult |
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Casselman - A change meeting. I spent an hour watching the bird working a roadside.
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Views: 46
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| Date: April 2, 2019 |
| Details: Adult |
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Morrisburg - Blue morph
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| Date: March 27, 2019 |
| Details: Adult |
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Morrisburg - A rare sighting. It was feeding on a recently caught bird.
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| Date: March 26, 2019 |
| Details: Male, Immature |
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Morrisburg - We have had Robins, Red-winged Blackbirds and geese for over a week but it is the arrival of Killdeer that says spring for me. This was my first.
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Views: 55
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| Date: March 21, 2019 |
| Details: Adult |
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Ottawa - I don't usually post multiple shots of the same species but this photo shows an interesting aspect of GGOW biology. Note the slender branch the bird is perched on and that it is barely bending.The owl weighs only about 1.1 kg which does not seem to match its very large size. This is our largest owl but the bird is a big ball of feathers. By comparison, a Snowy weighs about 2 kg. The photo was taken on a tripod after sunset on a cloudy day with little light left. Very slow shutter speed.
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| Date: March 14, 2019 |
| Details: Adult |
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Ottawa- In flight this bird has a huge wingspan. This is the same bird as the other photo but taken later in the day so the plumage appears darker and browner.
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Views: 67
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| Date: March 12, 2019 |
| Details: Adult |
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Ottawa - Based on size I think this was a male. Several birds have been seen this winter.
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Views: 74
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| Date: March 12, 2019 |
| Details: Unknown gender, Adult |
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Ingleside - As a followup to my January post of the northern subspecies of Horned Lark that overwinters here, this is the Prairie subspecies that has been migrating through for the last couple of weeks. Many of us consider this our first spring bird because it usually is. Note the white rather than yellow above the eye.
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Views: 127
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| Date: March 3, 2019 |
| Details: Adult |
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Kingston - in case you are wondering, no flash was used.
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Views: 91
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| Date: February 17, 2019 |
| Details: Adult |
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Ottawa - my guess at it being a male was based on size. Good number of birds this winter. There were three along this road within 2 km.
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Views: 97
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| Date: February 11, 2019 |
| Details: Male, Adult |
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