Having recently returned from four weeks in Scotland and Iceland, I’m a bit preoccupied with overseas wonders. It’s good to get a reminder that there are wonders closer to home: in this case, at White Lake, about 90 minutes NW of my house.
Today, the first of three alliterative posts: Birdies. I’d include the hummingbirds here, if iI hadn’t just posted them.
Loons
Who knew that loons, like pelicans, can scratch that spot between their shoulder blades with the back of their head?
Osprey
This guy was like the Friendly Giant: Look up. Look wa-a-a-y up!
Great Blue Heron
At some point, you’d think I’d have enough photos of great blue herons. Yeah, you’d think so . . .
Great pics!!
John – Many thanks!
Ospreys make me think of the Ancient Mariner. Okay, no long grey beard, but certainly a glittering eye.
Jim T
Jim – Yeah, I wouldn’t want to be lunch-size for an osprey, or even to look lunch size.
Every loon evokes for me F.R. Crawley’s film The Loon’s Necklace that all Canadian children should have the opportunity to see. I must have been among the first school children to view the film in a Toronto classroom around 1949 or 1950. The head-and-shoulders trick is not one I had noticed. Thank you for these.
Thank you for all of them.
Laurna – They are amazing, aren’t they? I count myself lucky to have the opportunity even to see them, much more to photograph them.