Last weekend I shamelessly took a picture of any bird that came within my range of vision.
Colonel Samuel Smith Park, Etobicoke
Much of the usual suspects were present. I accidentally flushed the Cooper’s hawk, stayed still enough for the American tree sparrows to emerge and held my breath as the red-necked grebe headed ever so close to shore.
Cooper’s hawk
American tree sparrow
Red-necked grebe
Lasalle Marina, Burlington
The balance of the photographs were taken at Lasalle Marina, in Burlington. Lately, mornings have been overcast but I find early mornings are best for photographing the waterfowl closer to the shoreline.
The American pipit is a new species for me.
American pipit
Am happy to have had opportunity to get either a first or perhaps last glimpse for the season or closer photographs of the following:
Horned grebe
Eastern screech owl
Common loon
Common goldeneye
Black-crowned night-heron
American coot
White-breasted nuthatch
Trumpeter swan
Song sparrow
Ruddy ducks
Red-tailed hawk
Red-bellied woodpecker
Pied-billed grebe
Northern mockingbird
Male red-breasted merganser
Female canvasback
Male bufflehead
Leucistic or domestic mallard
House finch
Female hooded mergansers
Female greater or lesser scaups
European starlings
American coots
Burlington Ontario Birder 