Tag Archives: Canada

Hera pointing mallards

Hera flash pointing a pair of mallards during a training run, May 3, 2013.

Photographed and posted by Geoffrey

Red-winged blackbird nest

Red-winged blackbird nest

Red-winged blackbird nest in the cattails in a pond next to the Rideau River, May 2, 2013. I will keep an eye on this nest over the next several weeks, from a safe distance, to see how the blackbirds make out in their effort to raise a brood of chicks.

Photographed and posted by Geoffrey

Painted turtle

Painted turtle sunning himself on a log in a pond next to the Rideau River, May 2, 20.

Photographed and posted by Geoffrey

Bufflehead

Hen buffleheads on the Rideau River, May 2, 2013.

Photographed and posted by Geoffrey

Mallard drake

Mallard drake feeding on a pond next to the Rideau River, April 30, 2013.

Photographed and posted by Geoffrey

Red-winged blackbird

Female red-winged blackbird at the edge of a pond next to the Rideau River, April 30, 2013.

Photographed and posted by Geoffrey

Song sparrow.

Song sparrow photographed in a tree on parkland in Ottawa, Ontario, April 28, 2013.

Photographed and posted by Geoffrey

Red-Winged blackbird

Male red-winged blackbird perched in a tree next to the Rideau River, April 23, 2013.

Mallard drake

Mallard drake standing on a muskrat lodge in a pond next to the Rideau River, April 23, 2013.

Drake mallard

Drake mallard reposing in a pond next to the Rideau River, April 21, 2013.

Photographed and posted by Geoffrey