When we were in Presqu’ile Provincial Park, we saw several mute swans. We don’t see very many in our area, so we enjoyed watching them. The mute swans came from Europe in the mid 1800s through the early 1900s. They decorated the lawns of large estates and city parks. They were also put into zoos […]
I was fascinated with the gulls and terns at Presqu’ile Provincial Park. They were diving into the water to fish, so I was hoping to catch some photos of them diving. This wasn’t working out too good for me, as you can see below. It was hard to anticipate where they were going to dive. […]
According to Ducks Unlimited many female ducks of different kinds will pretend to have an injury such as a broken wing if they are trying to draw you or a predator away from their babies. We live on a lake, and have many mallards around us, but we had never seen this happen until last […]
This past week, we spent a few days at Presqu’ile Provincial Park. I’ll post photos from our time there in the next few weeks. One of the highlights for us was watching a mother raccoon trying to move her kit to another place. All of the photos were taken with my long lens (600 mm) […]
We still get visits from the fisher, and in the daytime when it is easiest to take photos of it.