Great Blue Heron

It was a beautiful, foggy morning on our lake and river today. As I was coming around a bend in the river, I spotted a great blue heron. Even though we have them on our lake, we don’t get the opportunity to see them up close very often. This one was very accommodating.

Brown Thrasher

At first, we thought that something was wrong with this bird. I believe it is a brown thrasher, and it was “anting”. The thrasher is lying on the ground, and letting ants climb on it. Apparently the ants crawl between its feathers and skin. It stretched out its wings, and acted like it was having […]

Eastern Kingbird

This is another new one for me – the Eastern Kingbird. We saw it at Presqu’ile Provincial Park too. It is a flycatcher, and as you can see in the next couple of pictures, it was surrounded by flies. Yes, those are bugs flying around in both of these pictures. We didn’t stay in that […]