A Flash Of Gold
April 27th, 2009
Our recent summery weather has opened the floodgates on songbird migration. Yellow Warblers are back. This beautiful bird is Ottawa's most common breeding warbler.
...and, I should add, I'm not the only one who is pleased with the influx of songbirds:
That would be a Cooper's Hawk, a rapacious bird-eating raptor. (I photographed her two close relatives, the smaller Sharp-Shinned Hawk and the king-size Northern Goshawk, earlier this year.) She was perched low at Hog's Back Park scanning for prey, and didn't seem to mind or even deign to notice when I got within ten feet of her.
April 27th, 2009
Our recent summery weather has opened the floodgates on songbird migration. Yellow Warblers are back. This beautiful bird is Ottawa's most common breeding warbler.
...and, I should add, I'm not the only one who is pleased with the influx of songbirds:
That would be a Cooper's Hawk, a rapacious bird-eating raptor. (I photographed her two close relatives, the smaller Sharp-Shinned Hawk and the king-size Northern Goshawk, earlier this year.) She was perched low at Hog's Back Park scanning for prey, and didn't seem to mind or even deign to notice when I got within ten feet of her.
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