Showing posts with label Cormorant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cormorant. Show all posts

Saturday, April 28, 2012

April 28, 2012: Southern Ontario (Butterfly Conservatory, Birding)

We spent the day at various places in the Niagara Region of Ontario, firstly at the really cool Niagara Butterfly Conservatory
 Chameleon
 Above and Below: Blue Morphos

 Lowe's Swallowtail
 Scarlet Mormon
 Red Spotted Cattleheart
 Giant Atlas Moth
 Unknown
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 A cool red fuzzy plant
 Some nice purple flowers
 Rice Paper 
 More Yellow Flowers
 Great Eggfly
 Malachite
 Gray Cracker
 Red Mormon
 Malachite
 Clipper

Outside in the Botanical Garden:
 Tulips
 Interesting Roses
 Plants growing in the rock
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Some nice shots of a King Eider at La Salla Marina, Burlington, Ontario

 Trumpeter Swan
 Egg on the beach!
 Trumpeter Swan

Double Crested Cormorant on Eastport Drive in Hamilton, Ontario


Saturday, July 09, 2011

July 9, 2011: Birding Southern Ontario

We started out today birding the large roosts around the Burlington Life Bridge.  Cool!
 Double-Crested Cormorant roost
 Above and Below: Ring-Billed Gulls

 Double Crested Cormorant
 Baby Ring Billed Gull
 Black-Crowned Night Heron
Double Crested Cormorant
No Trespassing!

Nearby La Salle Park in Hamilton
Trumpeter Swan
 Trumpeter Swan
 Redhead duck

Jimson Weed

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

October 13, 2010: Locke Mills and Portland, Maine Area

Some beautiful fall colors around Bethel, Maine
Blue Jay
Red Squirrel

The drive from Bethel to the Maine Coast

Cape Elizabeth, Portland
Song Sparrow
Interesting Mosses
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Herring Gull
Above and Below:  Common Eider

Berries
Fall leaves
New York Aster
New England Aster
Cape Elizabeth Lighthouse
The ocean at Cape Elizabeth
Greater Black Backed Gull
Black Guillemot
Common Loon
Double Crested Cormorants
Greater Black Backed Gull
Double Crested Cormorants

Scarborough Marsh
Above and Below: Double Crested Cormorant

Fall Colors
Above: Berry Trees
Song Sparrow
Lesser Yellowlegs

Cape Neddick Lighthouse Area
 
Above and Below: Double Crested Cormorant
Common Eider
Black-Bellied Plover