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Première photo d'un magnifique voyage en Norvège!
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Taken @ Bidgoods -Goulds. NL- Canada
The likely mate of the previous posted bird as they were together The female was carrying nesting material into a spruce tree into which the male went with a snack for the Female
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Connecticut
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I have always wanted to get an image of the Common Loon emerging from its hunting underwater. It seems to me to express the intensity of the species when it is on the hunt, and uniqueness of its behaviour on and under the water.
In the summer we visit a lake in North Frontenac, an hour and a bit west of Ottawa. The lake has more than one pair of resident Loons in the summer, which means the haunting call and response, often in the night and frequently before sunrise, is contant. It is as good a way of being told ‘you aren’t in the city any more’ as I know.
The boat traffic on the lake is almost non-existent. So the Loons follow the fish into the small bays that frame the lake, and they will hunt until they are full (that takes a while - they are skilled hunters and eat a lot). That means if one is lucky enough to have a Loon approach, chances are there will be multiple opportunities. And then, without warning, they will surface 60 metres away.
The date is incorrect on this image. It was July 3. I am a little inept at setting up this sort of feature on a new mirrorless camera, and I don’t have a lot of practice. I fixed it later on a rainy day, but I wanted to get the camera down to the water on that morning more than I wanted to wrestle with time and date stamps.
Tags: Plongeon huard Common Loon North Frontenac Summer birds
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