Finally had a day that was calm enough to get out in the canoe and got a few shots. One lifer... the Nelson Sparrow.
This Cormorant must have been a young one. I was sitting in my canoe with the bow braced against a few snags that had fallen in the water. It saw me and came right over. Swam back and forth checking me out for a bit and then hopped onto the snag and started climbing up it. Funny to watch a bird with webbed feet climb a tree. It got to the top, which was about 15 feet above my head and spread out it's wings for drying. Couldn't have cared less that I was there.
I had to push the canoe back to get this shot because the bird was too close.
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This was how he looked once he climbed up to the top of the tree. Hard to get an exposure on him.
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Also got a young Pied-billed Grebe. This one is cropped quite a bit.
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And a new one for me... A Nelson's Sparrow. I've been trying for quite some time to get one of these secretive little birds. I hear them all the time but they never seem to want to come out in the open.
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... great shots of the cormorant, the second one is an especially interesting perspective... I think the Pied-billed Grebe is the cutest thing on the water... and the Nelson's Sparrow is a beauty, congratulations... I love sparrows and this one is new to me.
