So glad these guys are back loudly whistling their territorial song! #northerncardinal #backyardbirds #birdsofontario

A cheerful visitor during these gross rainy and cold dull days. Boy did this guy stand out in the yard! Hope he cheers you up! #birdsofontario #northerncardinal #backyardbirds #PeterboroughOntario

Day 22 #ArtAdventCalendar! Cheeky Chickadee says what is with Mother Nature throwing a blizzard at us right on time for Christmas!? Please stay safe people in Ontario! #birdsofontario #chickadee #naturephotography

Day 22 #ArtAdventCalendar! Cheeky Chickadee says what is with Mother Nature throwing a blizzard at us right on time for Christmas!? Please stay safe people in Ontario! #birdsofontario #chickadee #naturephotography

Day 21 #ArtAdventCalendar. The winter solstice. From here on in it gets lighter again til June. When we will again freak out that it can't be that the days are getting shorter already again, summer hasn't started! This is a fluffy female #PinegGrosbeak feasting on crab apple seeds in my tree a few Dec.s ago. They are normally not so far south, but it was an irruption year, where boreal birds forage further south due to lack of food up north. #birdsofontario #naturephotography #birdphotography

Day 21 #ArtAdventCalendar. The winter solstice. From here on in it gets lighter again til June. When we will again freak out that it can't be that the days are getting shorter already again, summer hasn't started! This is a fluffy female #PinegGrosbeak feasting on crab apple seeds in my tree a few Dec.s ago. They are normally not so far south, but it was an irruption year, where boreal birds forage further south due to lack of food up north. #birdsofontario #naturephotography #birdphotography

It’s a snowstorm here in southern Ontario! So beautiful. Here’s a #birdphoto of a Mourning Dove hunkered down in my yard under similar circumstances from a couple of years ago for #ArtAdventCalendar day 15. #naturephotography #birdsofontario #doves #winterbirds #BirdsofMastondon

It’s a snowstorm here in southern Ontario! So beautiful. Here’s a #birdphoto of a Mourning Dove hunkered down in my yard under similar circumstances from a couple of years ago for #ArtAdventCalendar day 15. #naturephotography #birdsofontario #doves #winterbirds #BirdsofMastondon

A beautiful portrait of a #CommonLoon from this past summer for Day 8 of #ArtAdvendCalendar . This photo shows the beautiful iridescent neck feathers not always obvious on these birds. Love the pattern made by the water droplets streaming back off his face.
#naturephotopraphy #birdsofontario #loons #waterbirds #birdphotography

Took a walk through Ojibway park today. The old bridge has been replaced with a low concrete bridge. Not nearly as nice. A good wildlife photographer knows how to do this without bridges, so after I left the bridge the birds followed me for peanuts & sunflower seeds. I fed some from my hand and fired off a few shots of them. Here’s one of a tufted titmouse.

#photography #photo #titmouse #tuftedtitmouse #nature #wildlife #birds #ontariobirds #birdsofontario

#birdsofmastodon #birdsofontario #purplefinch #naturephotography

More of the little tufted titmouse bathing at Malden Park. These little birds will take seed and peanuts right out of your hands! Got pretty close while this one was having a bath in a puddle on the paved path.

#akeyphoto #photography #wildlife #birds #birdphotography #birdsofontario #titmouse

One of my favourite little migratory birds. This is from October when a little flock came through the yard. #whitethroatedsparrow #birds #birdsofontario #migratorybirds