Mixture of Birds

The snow storms seemed to concentrate the migrating birds in fields on the Athabasca River. This Kestrel? was watching all the birds, wondering what to have for lunch

There was a mixed bag of Sand Hill Cranes in amongst the geese ducks and Tundra Swans.

A few Blue Wing Teal were also in the field

Best of all were the Tundra Swans. They are a majestic bird.

Of course, what would be a field in spring without a load of Canada Geese?

And of course, more Swans I wanted to get some in-flight pictures, but did not want to disturb them.

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Honkers and Quackers

Lots and lots of birds are showing up daily

 

Houston, we have lift off

 

The males are all decked out in their breeding plumage!

The fields are full of Canada Geese.

 

Another Mallard...ho hum!

 

 

I just missed this fly-by of some Tundra Swans. Maybe next time!

 

Saturday's Outing

I decided to go a different direction today, down Highway 32. I saw lots and lots of Rough-legged hawks. They look pretty mean surveying their domain.

I also came across several deer in the field. As you can see, our snow dump from last week is almost gone.

Mama was keeping a close watch over her kids.

One one of the local ponds I found three Tundra Swans. They were a little nervous, but did not take flight.

An all white bird is almost as hard to get detail as is an all black bird.

 There was not much open water left and another couple of days should show this all frozen.