Inglewood Bird Sanctuary that is! Everytime I go to shorten the sanctuary in a post I look again at it’s acronym and have to spell out… just not for my title today.
Fay and I hit up the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary earlier this week and it truly was a day full of “lifers”. I guess that’s not hard when your new to birding. Here are some of the images I got and as usual I’m posting both the good and the bad (just not the really really bad – ahem, Yellow Warbler, also a lifer).
A Female Baltimore Oriole. They are so beautiful. In fact I had been trying to get a photo of a Yellow Warbler who was being very cagey and then saw this little lady thinking (from a distance) that she was also a Warbler. Nope, in all the images of the Warbler only the branch is in focus, sigh. I am really happy with all the pictures of this beauty though.The Male Baltimore Oriole. He was a bit far, even for my BIG lens hence the pixelation but I’m ecstatic to even have gotten this photo!A Red-shafted Flicker. You may recall the Yellow-shafted Flicker image I got in early spring in the bird sanctuary. The angle isn’t great on this but, as is likely noticeable in all of my pictures today, all the birds were hanging out high up in the trees this day.This is a Cedar Waxwing ready to go out and show his face in public. This is the before picture! Waxwings are one of my favourite birds. I posted pics of a Bohemian Waxwing from another visit to the sanctuary earlier in the spring.Okay, I’m pretty sure this is a Brown-headed Cowbird but I’m not positive. Most of the other shots of him are primarily tree branches with a beak.This is a Wood Duck that is in “eclipse”. (that is a new birding term for me). It’s the breeding males that are so ornate and stunning in colour. This picture in another post shows what the male looks like when he’s out courting….Female Wood Duck with her little ducklings. There were somewhere around seven or eight but none of these photos turned out very good. But those little ducklings!!! Seriously, they are adorable, aren’t they? The European Starling has such a beautiful iridescence to their feathers. Add that to his COVID-19 style and you get this!Okay, maybe some can explain why all the birds seem to be sporting their COVID coiffes on this day. This little Black Capped Chickadee looks like he just got out of the bath.Last but not least, because I think these guys are just so adorable, is the House Wren. They remind me of a little brown frog with a tail and feathers for some reason. These guys flit around so fast I was surprised to get any with one in focus.
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Funny. First thing I thought when I saw the title was that you had a new camera with In Body Stabilization. I like the wrens. They are all over the cafe’s in New Zealand, flitting in to get the leftovers. I watched one trying to fly away with a piece of fish bigger than it was.
LOL, I didn’t realize that it was an acronym for anything but Irritable Bowel Syndrome (and Inglewood Bird Sanctuary). After all of your travel pics of New Zealand I am definitely going to have to travel there – when we can travel again!
Funny. First thing I thought when I saw the title was that you had a new camera with In Body Stabilization. I like the wrens. They are all over the cafe’s in New Zealand, flitting in to get the leftovers. I watched one trying to fly away with a piece of fish bigger than it was.
LOL, I didn’t realize that it was an acronym for anything but Irritable Bowel Syndrome (and Inglewood Bird Sanctuary). After all of your travel pics of New Zealand I am definitely going to have to travel there – when we can travel again!