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The Loon
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The Loon

Loons have long been considered by many North Americans as beautiful and special, symbolizing wilderness and solitude. Many cottage-goers, campers, and vacationers would feel their trip was incomplete without viewing a loon or listening to its haunting call.

Loons are water birds like ducks, geese, and grebes, but they are classified separately by scientists. The five species are Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata, Pacific Loon Gavia pacifica, Arctic Loon Gavia arctica, Yellow-billed Loon Gavia adamsii, and Common Loon Gavia immer. The Common Loon is the species best known to most of us, as its breeding range lies across most of Canada

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  • A Red-Winged Blackbird
  • One of the most abundant birds across North America, and one of the most boldly colored, the Red-winged Blackbird is a familiar sight atop cattails, along soggy roadsides, and on telephone wires. Glossy-black males have scarlet-and-yellow shoulder patches they can puff up or hide depending on how confident they feel.<br /> <br /> Click here to listen to their call <a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-winged_Blackbird/id">http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red-winged_Blackbird/id</a>
  • An American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) in the reeds. It was tricky to get close to this one - I used a boat.<br /> <br /> The American Bittern breeds in all of Alberta except for the mountains. It is confined to extensive cat-tail marshes and bulrush stands. It winters in southern and coastal U.S.A.<br /> <br /> It arrives around the beginning of May, and leaves by early October. Because of its liking for impenetrable habitats, it is more often heard than seen
  • An American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) in the reeds. It was tricky to get close to this one - I used a boat.<br /> <br /> The American Bittern breeds in all of Alberta except for the mountains. It is confined to extensive cat-tail marshes and bulrush stands. It winters in southern and coastal U.S.A.<br /> <br /> It arrives around the beginning of May, and leaves by early October. Because of its liking for impenetrable habitats, it is more often heard than seen
  • Find him if you can ... an American Bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus)
  • Settled in and back on the eggs.
  • After a short swim this loon is re-arranging itself on the nest. She was sitting on 2 eggs - you can see one of them, kind of brown-green below her.
  • Loons have long been considered by many North Americans as beautiful and special, symbolizing wilderness and solitude. Many cottage-goers, campers, and vacationers would feel their trip was incomplete without viewing a loon or listening to its haunting call.<br /> <br /> Loons are water birds like ducks, geese, and grebes, but they are classified separately by scientists. The five species are Red-throated Loon Gavia stellata, Pacific Loon Gavia pacifica, Arctic Loon Gavia arctica, Yellow-billed Loon Gavia adamsii, and Common Loon Gavia immer. The Common Loon is the species best known to most of us, as its breeding range lies across most of Canada
  • The Loon
  • This loon was quite curious about what I was doing sitting in the boat not moving and making funny little machine noises (camera going full tilt).
  • This loon was quite curious about what I was doing sitting in the boat not moving and making funny little machine noises (camera going full tilt).
  • This loon is stretching its wings - unfortunately he did it almost behind my back and so on fast rotating and shooting I missed a part of his head - oh, well, such is the life of an aspiring wildlife photographer - still a nice shot I figure. <br /> <br /> Loons have one of the most beautiful and haunting calls in nature - click here to listen <a href="http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/wildlife/loons/images.html">http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/wildlife/loons/images.html</a>
  • A loon sitting on a nest is eyeing me with great concern. She's displaying anxiety, keeps her head way low and wings spread protectively over the nest to try and escape detection.
  • The mom or dad of the 2 owl babies watching closely
  • The mom or dad of the 2 owl babies watching closely
  • The mom or dad of the 2 owl babies watching closely
  • Great Horned Owl Baby
  • A Great Horned Owl baby I spotted in some Cottonwood trees with a sibling and the mother / father.<br /> The Great Horned Owl, Bubo virginianus, also known as the Tiger Owl, is a large owl native to the Americas. It is an adaptable bird with a vast range and is the most widely distributed true owl in the Americas.
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  • A yellow shafted flicker - photo taken thru the triple paned glass of my kitchen window - it's a bit soft
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