The Thursday before New Year's I left work a little early and decided to stop along the Courtney Campbell Causeway before heading home to see if there were any birds hanging around. I had not been in a while because now it's dark when I leave work. Clouds had rolled in and it was just starting to get dark. There weren't too many birds around. I saw 2 groups of ducks floating out in the bay. They looked like lesser scaup. They were disappearing ducks. One minute there would be 4 or 5 ducks floating around and then there would only be 1. Lesser scaup are diving ducks which dive for their food. They kept doing it all at the same time. They are very skittish and would not get too close to the causeway. As I was leaving the access road on the causeway, I saw the above osprey sitting on a lamp post. At first he was turned facing the main road but when I stopped he turned around and looked down at me. He almost looks comical.
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Wow, the last picture is my fav. What a beautifull bird!!
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Beautiful photographs Dina.
ReplyDeleteLove the osprey.
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He does look comical in that last photo!
ReplyDeleteLOVE your shot of the osprey. I spent weeks last summer trying to get such a shot. Maybe next year. LOL
ReplyDeletethe osprey looks really crazy from that angle. I didn´t even recognize it in the last shot. Very good shots. :)
ReplyDeleteHe surely was looking at you!! Great shot of him/her! Maybe he's the one that lives across the harbor from my summer home in Nova Scotia!! Tell him I miss him. ~karen
ReplyDeleteWow cool to be able to spot an osprey on the way to work! Well done... I've never seen it ;-)
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