Birding

[neovonretorch]

I’m definitely not confident in either direction, based on that photo!

[plainjane]

Other photos did not help me. first feels more vulture?

[neovonretorch]

Uploaded first and second photo to iNaturalist, and the first photo Merlin Bird ID, and both suggest Wild Turkey! I think the light brown feathers mixed in are maybe more common with turkey than turkey vulture?

[plainjane]

Yeah, merlin said wild turkey across them all. It is just that we see turkey vultures pretty commonly - though not on the ground, and have never heard of a turkey other than at the farm up the valley https://riverdalefarmtoronto.ca/

[diapasoun]

Those look like turkeys to me. The primaries are especially turkey primaries and not turkey vulture primaries.

[neovonretorch]

Female and male green-winged teal

[neovonretorch]

Very mediocre long distance shots, but a pileated woodpecker. I have to say, just before these photos, it flew across my yard, and the black and white wings are very striking!

[neovonretorch]

I just like this duck.

[plainjane]

the duck it is very pleasingly compact, like you could hold it in your hands

[turtlegirl]

That’s a good duck

[CalBal]

I definitely think turkey, they are in my yard all the ding dang time. Maybe is lost. And, TVs (at least here) are much bigger and darker.

[neovonretorch]

Can you identify the northern shoveler, the green-winged teal, and the gadwall?!

[neovonretorch]

Large red-tailed hawk!

[plainjane]

I love the shovelers the best, though the teals are also cute

[plainjane]

long tails

[neovonretorch]

So good! I was excited to see them 2 weeks ago because I hadn’t seen them before, but these photos are much clearer!

[plainjane]

they do tend to be a bit further out from shore, but they really like our stretch of the lake, so we get a good chance to see them chattering about with each other and doing their synchronized diving

the auto focus struggles with the spaniel mutton chops for some reason though

[diapasoun]

Shovelers are such a delight.

We went birding yesterday but I took no photos. Imagine a bunch of bald eagles and osprey though.

[neovonretorch]

Pied-bill grebe
American coots
Still not sure what # 3 was?!
I think the group in # 4 are bufflhead

[neovonretorch]

While we were out, we also saw:

Tundra Swan

So many tree swallows… and not completely awful photos, despite how fast they move, and all the clouds. I believe these are all tree swallows; the blue/green ones being the males, and the brown ones being the females. But I’m definitely not sure.

There were well over a dozen greater egret. I usually don’t like my photos of them - the white tends to cause lots of distortion, but with some decent photo editing, these are looking pretty good.