A close up of a porcupine showing some deformity to its nostrils. You can also see it's gorgeous orange teeth and its not so obvious eyes.
Looks like this guy has old damage to its nose, maybe attacked or maybe frostbite? Still in great shape and a cutie.
Porcupine, Tantramar Marsh, #NewBrunswick
#nature #wildlife #porcupine
A heron flying and banking offering a view of the top of its spread wings.
As the heron glides in for a landing one gets a good view of its profile from beak to toes.
Spring has been busy and it seems like this was a long time ago now. My first good sighting of a Great Blue Heron almost two weeks ago.
Beaubassin-est, #NewBrunswick
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A small flock of five scoter fly by. Males are black with a bright orange "lump" on their bill.
Up close with a flying scoter. Black feet shine in the sunlight as does the orange nostril "lump" on its beak.
Black Scoters, Pointe-du-Chêne, #NewBrunswick
#birds #scoter
Just a fun close up of a Wild Turkey's head. A good view of its "hair", sporadic stubble, its beak changing from dark to light and its eye reflecting the sunny ground
Stretching its neck to find something in a hole in the ground. Nictitating membrane closed, protecting the eye.
Wild Turkey making like an ostrich, Never really thought about it but they are similar.
Charters Settlement, #NewBrunswick
#birds #turkey
The turkey flaps it wings to get dirt all through its feathers. You can see the dirt fly into the air over the turkey's back
Wild Turkey taking a dirt bath,
Charters Settlement, #NewBrunswick
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This shows off the white outer tail feather of a Dark-eyed Junco.
Dark-eyed Juncos were one of the first migrants we saw this Spring.
Charters Settlement, #NewBrunswick
#birds #nature #wildlife #Junco #birdphotography
Five Wild Turkey enjoying early Spring with a dust bath. This helps with parasites and general grooming and, well, maybe just feels good.
Charters Settlement, #NewBrunswick
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A Purple Finch is described as a bird who flew into a box of Raspberry Jello with red washing over its face, chest and back. While easily mistaken for other finch like the House or Cassin's it is the reddest of the bunch.
Haven't seen many Purple Finch over the winter.
Charters Settlement, #NewBrunswick
#birds #nature #wildlife #birdphotogarphy #finch
The red on the Redpoll's head is what is first noticeable but looking closer you can see the tailfeathers, bent down and to the right, through the thin wing feathers.
Having a stretch, I like the way the wing is translucent enough to see the tail feathers underneath.
Redpoll, Manners Sutton, #NewBrunswick
#birds #nature #wildlife #birdphotography #redpoll
A hawk looks to the left, raising its tail feathers, showing off its namesake red tail.
Adjusting its grip atop an apple tree.
Red-tailed Hawk, Charters Settlement, #NewBrunswick
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A very white pigeon with a "normal" coloured head and orange eyes flies directly towards the camera.
I liked the paint job. Rock Pigeon, Fredericton, #NewBrunswick
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I have a visual in my head, lol. I am around the same age and not as agile as I used to be! Again good for you and the goose. Next time I am going in with reckless abandon!
Good for you. A goose would not be easy to deal with safely. I need to learn the proper way to wrangle some of these birds so neither them nor I get hurt.
A female mallard has what looks like an iced-cap lid around its neck. You can see where water is collecting in the lid as the duck swims.
Never sure what to say or even if I should post but I've seen two waterfowl in the past two weeks with plastic on them. One was this Mallard the other a Black Scoter on the Northumberland Strait.
Fredericton, #newbrunswick
#birds #garbage #pollution #plastics #mallard
Two very different birds share a similar white , grey, yellow, black plumage. The biggest difference is size.
When I look quickly out the window at the feeder I often have to look twice. Despite big differences they look the same at a glance.
Evening Grosbeak and American Goldfinch.
#NewBrunswick #Birds
I didn’t get to hear this one at all- quiet for hunting I suppose. Would love to hear them.
Thanks. Quite gorgeous. I was surprised by how orange it was.
A medium sized hawk perches on a hardwood branch. Its chest is a mottled rust colour. There are small amounts of blood on some talons. It is looking down for a small mammal to come along.
This Red-shouldered Hawk is a #NewBrunswick first for me. Found him "ditch hunting" along the hwy in Douglas.
#birds #nature #wildlife #birdphotography #hawk
Completely agree. I was trying to get shots of the Redhead and this guy kept getting in the way. All of a sudden it faced me and the viewfinder was full of bold colours. Quite gorgeous!
Thank you! Beautifully said and I agree.
Thanks Steve!
During breeding the Ring-billed Gull gets a brilliant colouring in its bare parts especially around the eye, mouth and throat.
During breeding the Ring-billed Gull gets a brilliant colouring in its bare parts especially around the eye, mouth and throat.
A Ring-billed Gull showing off its orangey-red breeding colour.
Fredericton, #NewBrunswick
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Not sure about longevity. There was also a pair (M&F) I photographed in Torryburn Water Treatment in Quispamsis in 2022 and I saw a female in 2024 in the water treatment plant in Salisbury. So they show up but not often.
Was at Carleton Park.
Thanks. I think he’s long gone. Was around for a couple of days and hasn’t been seen since the 30th.
Flying into the sun the light shows off the black, white and blue-grey of the beak, the cinnamon head with gold eye then the monotone variation of the wings and body.
This fellow, a Redhead, was a recent and very unusual visitor to Fredericton, #NewBrunswick
#birds #nature #wildlife #birdphotography #redhead #duck
A duck with a cinnamon coloured head and golden eye. Caught in the middle of a good scratch it looks like it struck a pose, foot behind its head.
No doubt about it...A natural Redhead. Not seen here very often..the duck that is.
Fredericton, #NewBrunswick a few days ago....
#birds #nature #wildlife #birdphotography #redhead #duck
Up close with a wrinkly-faced vulture. Its gorgeous brown feathers end at its forehead where its red skin is hidden by a dark stubble. The skin around the eye has less a crusty look than many of his type and his large nostril is covered in a brown crust of who knows what. Finally a white beak that looks like an afterthought.
Up close with a wrinkly-faced vulture. Its gorgeous brown feathers end at its forehead where its red skin is hidden by a dark stubble. The skin around the eye has less a crusty look than many of his type and his large nostril has something stuck to it.
Well if he wasn't ugly enough.......Someone tell him he has a booger.
Turkey Vulture, Hanwell, #NewBrunswick
#birds #nature #wildlife #birdphotography #vulture
Excuse the typo (wish BlueSky would allow editing it's a pain to delete the whole thing). Blacks Harbour has no apostrophe!
The water has slow gentle waves giving a calming texture to the scene and some odd reflections of the duck's head, one with a pointy bill and the other like a fuzzy ball with two eyes.
A female Long-tail Duck chilling in Blacks Harbour, #NewBrunswick
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