by Milo Smith

Here are some birds “collected” in 2022.  Mostly, I am just taking pretty pictures but for one I turned it into watercolour-like image.

#1 (male) and #2 (female) are Pine Grosbeaks pigging out on berries on the decorative crab-apple in my front garden in February.  They were voracious and virtually all the images are of them gorging on the fruit.

Here are some Snow Geese showing me their backs as I approach them at the settling ponds in April.

These are a pair of Rock Pigeons (the white one is the female and the only one in sharp focus) feeding on my front lawn.  I am sure they are a pair as I always saw them together over many days in May.

This is a Great Blue Heron making its escape as I flushed it on the Garry River just East of Main Street in June.  Many of my bird pictures are “bum shots” as they are fleeing my approach.

The next two are images of a Great Egret in the Raisin River in June.  In #6 it is fishing for lunch in a straight photograph.

Image #7, the “watercolour”, was produced in Photoshop.

Finally, this is an immature Osprey on the Rideau River in September.  Its parents have already migrated, and it will have to do so solo soon thereafter.  I tried to photograph it for maybe 15 minutes as it sat in the nest and just after I gave up and put the gear away it started to fly. Frustrating!

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