Scruffy Caught a Snack
This scruffy chickadee needs some help in the grooming department, but it doesn't need any help in the grocery department. Must've been lunchtime given the arachnid snack its beak was porting around.
The Lanky Blue Heron in Blackie Spit Park
The closest I've ever got to any likeness of a Great Blue Heron has been at the Great Blue Heron Casino in Port Perry, Ontario. I didn't have a lens other than my kit lens with me when I was at Blackie Spit Park in Surrey and happened to come across this Blue Heron standing about. He did let me get close-ish enough to get a decent shot, and I'm finally starting to learn how to use a fast shutter speed for subjects in motion:
Fresh Seafood Here
I have lots of bird photos lately. I think this is an American Wigeon. The reason this guy caught my eye is he'd sussed out a fresh crab for lunch. I was hungry. And jealous. Can't get fresher from the sea than this.
Swan Song
Yoga is very popular here; even the wildlife does it in a lagoon in Stanley Park. Or maybe this swan was just doing some afternoon calisthenics.
Wings and Flippers in Stanley Park
Canada Geese can be a nuisance, but when they're not causing trouble they are attractive animals. I didn't realize they had such reptilian-like webbed feet. I think Darwin was onto something.
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Portrait of a Canada Goose
It was raining outside, but this goose wanted a head shot for his portfolio. Makeup/wardrobe didn't do a good job of cleaning his beak of grass before the photo was taken.
If It Walks Like a Duck
The Serpentine Fen Bird Sanctuary in Surrey was a great place with cooperative photogenic ducks to try out my new lens, the Canon 70-200mm f4. Not that the kit lens that came with my Rebel T1i isn't good, but now I can take photos of things more than an arm's length in front of me. It's very exciting.
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