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Tag Archives: Downy Woodpecker
Fletcher Wildlife Garden/Jardin Écologique Fletcher, Ottawa Ontario
Fletcher Wildlife Garden/Jardin Écologique Fletcher, Ottawa Ontario (Location) This AM, I had started off before sunrise driving to the airport so that my wife could catch a flight to Winnipeg. On the way home, I stopped first at Hogs Back … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Ontario, Ottawa
Tagged 300mm lens, agricultural research, bushes and shrubs, digital image, Downy Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens), fletcher wildlife garden, image, jardin, Jardin Écologique Fletcher, megapixeltravel, ontario location, ottawa ontario, photo, photograph, pond area, sunrise, tree swallows, Tree Swallows (Tachycineta bicolor, woodpecker
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Just a short trip … really!
Just a short trip … really! I was working on some more uploads from our recent Cuba trip, looked out the window, saw that the sun was shining and decided that a short trip around the neighborhood with camera in … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Home and About, Ontario, Ottawa, Shirley's Bay
Tagged Black Chipmunk, brown coloration, chipmunk, chipmunks, cowbird, Deschenes Rapids lookout, digital image, Downy Woodpecker, eastern chipmunks, eastern gray squirrel, gray squirrel, Hairy woodpecker, image, megapixeltravel, mlanistic, Nepean, northern flicker, Ottawa, Ottawa River, photo, photograph, red winged blackbirds, ring-billed gull, Shirley's Bay, song sparrows, tree sparrows, wildlife sightings, woodpecker
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A bit of time on the Jack Pine Trail
A bit of time on the Jack Pine Trail Today, I decided to walk along the Jack Pine Trail to see if I could find some nuthatches and woodpeckers to photograph.
Posted in Canada Explorer, Home and About, Jack Pine Trail, Ontario, Ottawa, Ottawa Greenbelt Trails
Tagged American red squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, bird feeding, chickadees, Downy Woodpecker, large hole, marshland, nuthatches, Pileated Woodpecker, Pileated Woodpecker Dryocopus pileatus, pileated woodpeckers, Red Squirrel, White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis, wood chips, woodpecker, woodpeckers
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2011 Ottawa-Gatineau Christmas Bird Survey, Gatineau, Quebec
2011 Ottawa-Gatineau Christmas Bird Count, Gatineau, Quebec The sun is now up and I am out on a Christmas Bird Count with my birder friends, Ralph and Gerhard.
Posted in Bird Survey Outings, Canada Explorer, Gatineau/Hull/Aylmer, Ottawa, Quebec
Tagged American Robin Turdus migratorius Merle d'Amerique, aylmer, Bate Island, bird survey, black squirrels, Canada Geese, Canada Goose, Canada Goose Branta canadensis Bernache du Canada, CBC, Chickadee, chickadees, christmas bird, Christmas Bird Count, coloration, Deschenes Rapids, Downy Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescens Pic mineur, Eastern Greay Squirrel Sciurus carolinensis Écureuil gris, Gatineau, gatineau quebec, great blue heron, Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias Grand Héron, grey squirrel, Hairy woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker Picoides villosus Pic chevelu, Highbush Cranbery, House Sparrow, House Sparrow Passer domesticus Moineau domestique, Ice forming on creek, mallard, Mallard Anas platyrhynchos Canard colvert, Mourning Dove, Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura Tourterelle triste, OFNC, Ontario Field Naturalists Club, Ottawa River, picnic table, Plume Grass, rapids, Robin, snow on the ground, staghorn sumac, steady breeze, Wild Grapes, XMAS Bird Survey
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Trying out the repaired 80-200 f2.8
I haven’t been out on the woodland trails much this summer (soccer injuries, international travel, other family commitments, etc), so when I received my 80-200mm f2.8 back from Nikon’s repair depot, that was all that I needed as a reason … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Ontario, Ottawa, Sarsaparilla Trail
Tagged apple trees, beaver pond, Blue Jay, chickadees, chipmunks, Downy Woodpecker, ducks, family commitments, Greenbelt, Greenbelt Trails, Hairy woodpecker, handful of seeds, nature natural surroundings, NCC, Nepean, Nikon 28-200mm f2.8, Nikon 80-200mm f2.8, Nkon camera, Ottaawa Ontario, ottawa ontario, photography, photos, Red Squirrel, Sarsaparilla Trail, soccer injuries, summer soccer, sunflower seeds, walk in the woods, white breasted nuthatch, woodland trail, woodland trails, woodpecker
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Mud Lake Outing – Ottawa Flickr Group
Mud Lake Outing – Ottawa Flickr Group Note: I was using a Nikon 10.5 mm lens quite often this day and the curvature in some of the shots was quite intentional. What started out as a potentially very damp day, … Continue reading
Posted in Canada Explorer, Home and About, Mud Lake, Ontario, Ottawa, Ottawa Flickr Outings
Tagged 10.5mm fisheye, ©rjhay, Canada Goose, Cape May Warbler, Downy Woodpecker, dragonfly, frog, Goldfinch, Leopard Frog, Mud Lake, Nepean, Nikon, Northern Leopard Frog, Ontario, Ottawa, Rana pipiens, Ron Hay, wooden bridge
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A Visit to Owl Woods – Amherst Island, Ontario (April, 2006)
Amherst Island is an island on the east end of Lake Ontario and can be reached by a car ferry that leaves from the mainland on the half hour. (Location) The trick, then , is to arrive at the dock … Continue reading
Posted in Amherst Island, Canada Explorer, Home and About, Ontario
Tagged Amherst Island, Binoculars, Black-capped Chickadee, Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus, Brown Creeper, Brown Creeper Certhia americana, Bubo scandiacus, car ferry, Certhia americana, Chickadee, dockside, Downy Woodpecker, Female Hairy Woodpecker, fence posts, fence sitter, Gallinago delicata, Hairy Woodpecker Picoides villosus, lake ontario, manure pile, moorings, Mourning Dove, Mourning Dove Zenaida macroura, Ontario, owl, Owl nest, owls, Picoides villosus, Poecile atricapillus, rope, silo, snowy owl, Snowy Owl Bubo scandiacus, Tachycineta bicolor, Tree Swallow Tachycineta bicolor, tree swallows, Wilson's Snipe Gallinago delicata, Zenaida macroura
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