In keeping with the earlier blog from the day, here are a couple of recent photographs. The kildeer eggs were pointed out to us by an excited boy who found them on the beach at Lake Ontario. On a walk a few days later Ruth spotted mom incubating them. To assure you, the latter picture was taken with a telephoto lens. Both eggs and mom seem clear in the photos. They were virtually invisible when we were walking.
They are beautiful pictures David. I remember when we would find the killdeer nests out in the grain fields and see the mother bird try to draw our attention away from her nest. Dad would mark the nest with a tall stick and drive around the nest. But I don't hear or see the birds out in my brother's grain fields anymore. I wonder if the spray used on the grains have made the grain fields an inhospitable place for them.
ReplyDeleteIt is scary Susan. Songbirds are disappearing in our region because of the loss of habitat in South America. And birds that nest is fields such as kildeers and bobolinks have not fared well as farming has become more industrialized. Farmers such as you late father are themselves an endangered species.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the complements on my photographer. Alas, I can take no credit for the waxwing. I found it on the internet, but if I get a shot of the flock on our tree, I will post it.