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Local Eagle

We are blessed to have an eagle nest that (remarkably) is readily accessible to human visitors for viewing. The eagle pair have lived here for the past 15 years or so and have raised numerous offspring at the rate of two and sometimes three per year.

They are quite familiar and seemingly comfortable with the activities taking place below them, as the immediate vicinity is busy during the summer with boat launching and during the winter with ice fishing.

The eagles have been named Pete and Paulie by the locals and take advantage in the winter of donations of fish that the fishermen can’t use.

Here, Pete (or perhaps Paulie) executes a landing, delivering nesting materials foraged in the area.

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Great Blue Heron

Ungainly on the ground

Elegant in flight.

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Birds Around My House

We have a number of hungry birds inhabiting our bush. Many are attracted to the feeders.

The opportunity to see them up close is a great bonus to living here.

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Colour In Sweetman’s Garden

Summer comes soon to Sweetman’s Garden and the colours are getting better and better.

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Red Wing Blackbird Activity

Recently I had an hour to spend near a marsh on a day that the Brochures always show. Calm, sunny, cloudless sky, wonderful temperature – the kind of day that the brochure assures you is always the case whenever you visit wherever you visit.

In this case the red wing blackbird males were flying and perching, calling in hope, it appeared, of some “afternoon delight”.

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Sweetman’s Garden Emerges From Winter

A special garden created by Murray Sweetman over 50 years ago on unused railway right-of-way is generating colour once again.

Volunteers now tend the beds and pathways that are a little oasis of calm and warmth for both people and wildlife in the middle of town.

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Pete and Paulie Perching

After the discussion.

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Duet

Pete and Paulie are two local bald eagles who have been in the same nest for at least the last ten years.

They spend the winter here and every spring two or three new little bald eagles enter the world in their nest.

Right now it is waiting time and discussions take place.

A conversation happened the other day and I was fortunate enough to be able to eavesdrop.

I’m not sure what the resolution was, but they then turned their backs and gazed off into space.

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White Crowned Sparrow

This little guy showed up the other day.

Looks very confident.

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Purple Finches

Both having a nosh at the feeder.

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Flicker

Laurier Woods is a local area readily accessible to town.

It is a little microcosm of Northern Ontario, with bush, rocks, ponds, beaver dams (complete with beaver), all connected by well-marked trails.

Getting lost in the Woods is difficult.

Getting lost in the moments one experiences there is easy.

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Grackle In The Grass

Sweetman’s Garden has lots of birds to photograph on most days.

This day was unusual as only a solitary grackle was present when I visited.

But the light was so good that it all worked out just fine.

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You Are In My Sights

Osprey

This bird was perched high on the branch very near the nest, calling plaintively over and over.

Hoping that a prospective mate might get curious, I suppose.

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Subtle Autumn

There are a few small clues here that Autumn has begun.

Protected by the surrounding forest, the ferns around this decaying log are still rich green.

Processes happen slowly in this part of the forest, but they are inexorable in their progress.

The log will in time be reduced to its elements and return to the soil which gave it life.

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Delicate Jewelry in Nature

Dewdrops and Spider Webs create delicate jewelry.

One has to catch these early in the day.

 

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