It's a delicate business keeping your lunch pinned down with one foot and balancing on a slippery rock with the other in the middle of the Tay River
Osprey
[Pandion haliaetus]
Perth, Ontario
June 2022

"If looks could kill, they probably will" Peter Gabriel, Games Without Frontiers, 1980
Must admit I felt a bit unnerved when I was given this intimidating stare for disturbing lunch
Osprey
[Pandion haliaetus]
Perth, Ontario
June 2022

This Great Egret
[Ardea alba]
was demonstrating such absolute stealth in pursuit of its catch, I wasn't worried about shutter speed!
Toronto High Park
April 2022

Red-winged blackbird
[Agelaius phoeniceus]
High Park, Toronto
March 2022

Look at the talons on this Red-winged Blackbird
[Agelaius phoeniceus]
High Park, Toronto
April 2022

Red-winged Blackbird
[Agelaius phoeniceus]
singing to defend his territory or attract a mate
High Park, Toronto
April 2022

Common Grackle
[Quiscalus quiscula]
High Park, Toronto
March 2022

Great camouflage
Red-winged Blackbird
[Agelaius phoeniceus] [F]
High Park, Toronto
April 2022

Red-winged Blackbird
[Agelaius phoeniceus] [F]
High Park, Toronto
April 2022

Love was certainly in the air (or up the tree at least), as these two were singing to each other high up in the tree at High Park in Toronto on this beautiful spring morning
Northern Cardinals
[Cardinalis cardinalis] [M+F]
High Park, Toronto
April 2022

Downy Woodpecker
[Dryobates pubescens]
High Park, Toronto
March 2022

Wood Duck
[Aix sponsa] [m]
with his partner
High Park, Toronto
March 2022

Mallard Duck
[Anas platyrhynchos] [m]
stretching his wings
High Park, Toronto
March 2022

Mallard Duck
[Anas platyrhynchos] [f]
High Park, Toronto
March 2022

American Tree Sparrow
[Spizelloides arborea]
Perth, Ontario
April 2022

It's amazing what will turn up in your own backyard.
This beautiful Northern Cardinal [Cardinalis cardinalis] [f]
resting in our rescued curly willow tree while collecting nesting materials.
Junction, Toronto
April 2022

A juvenile American Robin
[Turdus migratorius]
in the garden this summer
Perth, Ontario
June 2022

Downy Woodpecker
[Dryobates pubescens] [M]
clearing a utility pole of bugs for HydroOne
April 2022
Perth, Ontario

Black-crowned Night Heron
[Nycticorax Nycticorax]
High Park - Toronto, ON
April 2022

Black-crowned Night Heron
[Nycticorax Nycticorax]
[Juvenile]
High Park - Toronto, ON
April 2022

Not many of us get close enough to these
Double-crested Cormorants
[Phalacrocorax aurtus]
to notice their incredible emerald eyes
High Park, Toronto
April 2022

This Common Merganser
[Mergus merganser] [F]
standing on a rock in the Tay River
Perth, Ontario
May 2022

A Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
[Sphyrapicus varius] [M]
Killarney Provincial Park
May 2022