A black bird with iridescent bluish-purplish-orangish-greenish colouring is perched on a tree branch, looking to the right.
You know, for a bird with all black feathers, Common Grackles sure are colourful.
Jemseg, #NewBrunswick, Canada
April 2025
📷 #birds #grackle #COGR #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A horned grebe in its grey and white non-breeding plumage with bright red eye is swimming on grey-green ocean water. The bird is facing to the right and is looking at the camera.
I paid another visit to the pair of Horned Grebes that have overwintered at a local fishing wharf. It was cloudy and crappy but the grebes looked splendid!
Dipper Harbour, #NewBrunswick, Canada
March 2026
📷 #birds #marinelife #HOGR #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A male mallard duck with grey and brown body, dark green head, orange legs and feet, white neck ring, and yellow bill has its wings fully back and up as he lands behind a softly out of focus ridge of white snow that is artfully obscuring the bottom portion of the image.
Happy Saturday! Here's a Mallard drake flying in to keep you company this weekend.
Saint John, #NewBrunswick, Canada
February 2026
📸 #birds #duck #MALL #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A mottled brown and white songbird (female purple finch) is on a bare tree branch with a soft forest green background. She is facing toward the camera with her head turned to the left.
Ms. Purple Finch caught in the dying rays of a summer sunset.
Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
June 2025
📷 #birds #PUFI #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A sparrow-sized bird with mostly grey and mottled brown plumage with a reddish cap on its head and a yellow beak is perching on a slender leafless tree branch with a brown acorn-like seed pod (a caktin) at its feet. It is facing straight-on toward the camera.
Ms. Redpoll picking away at a birch catkin in search of seeds.
Yoho, #NewBrunswick, Canada
January 2026
📷 #birds #REDP #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A brown and white/grey mottled songbird is perching on mess of dead and lichen-covered tree branches with an out of focus green background. The bird is facing to the right.
Happy Wednesday! Here's a Song Sparrow, ruffled somewhat in a slight morning breeze.
Little Lepreau, #NewBrunswick, Canada
March 2026
📸 #birds #SOSP #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A side view of a large brown aquatic rodent (a beaver) as it rests on a submerged log just below the surface of the water. The beaver in a small patch of open water surrounded by ice, with beige reeds sticking up in the background. It is facing to the right.
Happy International #BeaverDay to all who celebrate! (and really, if you don't -- what's wrong with you??) Here's a jolly fellow I spent some time with this past weekend.
Fredericton, #NewBrunswick, Canada
April 2026
📸 #mammals #beaver #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A brown and white osprey is frozen in mid-air with its wings spread wide and its legs and talons extended as it descends toward its unseen nest below.
An Osprey approaches its nest platform on a beautiful spring morning.
Jemseg, #NewBrunswick, Canada
April 2025
📸 #birds #osprey #OSPR #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A male mallard duck with grey and brown body, dark green head, white neck ring, yellow bill, and bright orange feet is flying straight toward the camera with wings outspread as it approaches for landing.
Incoming!
Saint John, #NewBrunswick, Canada
February 2026
📸 #birds #duck #mallard #MALL #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
Two horned grebes in their grey and white non-breeding plumage with bright red eyes are swimming from left to right on turquoise ocean water.
This pair of Horned Grebes spent the winter eking a living in the tidal waters next to a commercial fishing wharf. Soon they will head inland for the breeding season.
Dipper Harbour, #NewBrunswick, Canada
March 2026
📷 #birds #marinelife #HOGR #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A small bird with a mottled or barred brown back, grey breast, white throat and rusty brown cap on its head is perched on a lichen-covered tree branch facing forward forward and to the left while looking at the the camera.
Happy Friday from this Chipping Sparrow enjoying a warm spring evening last year.
Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
May 2025
📷 #birds #sparrow #CHSP #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z6iii #Nikkor800pf
A medium sized shorebird with mottled brown and white plumage is standing in shallow water, facing to the left. Another similar bird is slightly out of focus in the background.
A pair of Lesser Yellowlegs working the shallows at low tide.
Kent Island, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2025
📸 #birds #LEYE #shorebirds #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A small bird with white cheeks and breast with tan sides and a black face and head cap is perching on a lichen-covered tree branch with some snow on it and looking forward and to the left, in front of a soft forest green background.
Black-capped Chickadee fully enfloofenated against the late winter cold.
Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
March 2026
📸 #birds #chickadee #BCCH #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A mature Bald Eagle with white head and tail and brown body and wings is perching at the top of an evergreen tree, with a clear blue sky behind them.
Sharing another image of this stunning Bald Eagle keeping watch from the top of its nest tree for this week's #TalonTuesday.
Dipper Harbour, #NewBrunswick, Canada
February 2026
📸 #birds #eagle #BAEA #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
Photo of a white bird's head and neck (herring gull) with yellow eye and yellow bill with red and black markings on it. It's bill (beak) is slightly open. The gull is facing to the left and is looking past the camera.
This is the last of the unshared images from my session with this talented model who happens to be an American Herring Gull.
Little Lepreau, #NewBrunswick, Canada
April 2025
📸 #birds #AHGU #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A common loon in its grey and white non-breeding plumage is swimming on the blue ocean water. The bird is facing partly away from the camera and to the right and is looking back over its shoulder at the camera.
Common Loon looking sharp in its non-breeding winter plumage. You can see the black and white speckled feathers coming in, getting ready for tuxedo season!
Dipper Harbour, #NewBrunswick, Canada
March 2026
📷 #birds #MarineLife #loon #COLO #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A horned grebe in its grey and white non-breeding plumage with bright red eye is swimming on turquoise ocean water. The bird is swimming toward the camera and has its head turned slightly to the left (its right).
This is one of a pair of Horned Grebes that ventured quite close to me while I was lurking on a floating dock at a commercial fishing wharf.
Dipper Harbour, #NewBrunswick, Canada
March 2026
📷 #birds #marinelife #HOGR #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A small grumpy-looking slate grey bird with white belly and pinkish beak is perched on a tree branch with out of focus green tree background.
Is it just me, or does this Dark-eyed Junco look super annoyed at something? (or someone) (with a camera, maybe)
Hanwell, #NewBrunswick, Canada
June 2025
📸 #birds #sparrow #DEJU #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A medium sized shorebird with mottled brown and white plumage is standing on a rockweed-covered ledge exposed by the low tide. The bird is facing to the left.
Lesser Yellowlegs exploring the inter-tidal zone on a rockweed-covered ledge.
Kent Island, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2025
📸 #birds #LEYE #shorebirds #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A black duck with a white patch on the back of his head and on his forehead, and a large weird-looking black, white, and bright orange bill, and an orange leg partially out of the water, is swimming away from the camera but looking back at the photographer.
A stunning Surf Scoter shows off his flamboyant beak/bill and orange legs. They are one of my favourite ducks.
Dipper Harbour, #NewBrunswick, Canada
March 2026
📷 #birds #marinelife #SUSC #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A mature bald eagle with white head and dirty white tail and brown body and wings is flying generally from left to right as it leaps from an evergreen tree on the left of the photo. The background is clear blue sky.
For this week's #TalonTuesday photo, we have a Bald Eagle a second after launching itself from the top of its favourite perching tree.
Dipper Harbour, #NewBrunswick, Canada
February 2026
📸 #birds #eagle #BAEA #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A mostly grey duck with a brown head and piercing yellow eyes is swimming from left to right on calm water while looking at the camera.
A moment of serenity with a female Common Goldeneye and a slow-flowing creek.
Jemseg, #NewBrunswick, Canada
April 2025
📸 #birds #duck #COGO #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A male mallard duck with grey and brown body, green head, white neck ring, yellow bill, and bright orange feet is flying from right to left with wings outstretched as it approaches for landing.
A male Mallard duck, frozen in time the instant before touching down on a snow-covered pond.
Saint John, #NewBrunswick, Canada
February 2026
📸 #birds #duck #MALL #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
Close-up image of a common loon in its grey and white non-breeding plumage swimming on the ocean. Its body is pointed to the left but it has its head turned to the right and its beak is open wide as it calls out its melodic loonsong.
Beautiful Common Loon calling its gorgeous melodic call on a cold, sunny February morning. I don't often hear them calling while wintering in salt water.
Dipper Harbour, #NewBrunswick, Canada
February 2026
📷 #birds #marinelife #loon #COLO #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A brown and white/grey mottled songbird is perching on a diagonal very dead tree trunk. The bird is facing to the right.
Happy #WorldSparrowDay! Here's a Song Sparrow looking good on a beautiful spring morning.
Maces Bay, #NewBrunswick, Canada
April 2025
📸 #birds #SOSP #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A medium sized shorebird with mottled brown plumage, white underside, and long yellow legs (lesser yellowlegs) is standing on a rockweed-covered ledge exposed by the low tide. Another bird of the same species is taking a nap in the background.
A couple Lesser Yellowlegs taking a well deserved break on a rockweed-covered ledge at low tide.
Kent Island, #NewBrunswick, Canada
September 2025
📸 #birds #LEYE #shorebirds #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A horned grebe in its grey and white non-breeding plumage with bright red eye is swimming on turquoise ocean water. The bird is facing partly away from the camera and to the right and is looking back over its shoulder at the camera.
I only see Horned Grebes in winter, so I never see the full splendour of their colourful breeding plumage. The little splash of brown on this guy is all I get.
Dipper Harbour, #NewBrunswick, Canada
February 2026
📷 #birds #marinelife #HOGR #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A mature Bald Eagle with white head and tail and brown body and wings is perching at the top of an evergreen tree, with a clear blue sky behind them.
This week's #TalonTuesday stars a stunning Bald Eagle keeping watch from the top of its nest tree.
Dipper Harbour, #NewBrunswick, Canada
February 2026
📸 #birds #eagle #BAEA #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
A small bird with greyish-blue back and wings, rusty red/orange breast and underside, and black and white head and neck is hanging upside down under a lichen-covered tree branch. It is facing to the left.
The Red-breasted Nuthatch is a hardy little bird that hangs out in my part of eastern Canada all winter long. Like, literally hangs out.
Little Lepreau, #NewBrunswick, Canada
February 2026
📸 #birds #nuthatch #RBNU #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
Close-up view of a brown deer with black nose and big dark eyes as it stares straight at the camera with snow all around.
Still had the 1.4x teleconverter on my 800mm lens (making it 1120mm) when I came across this White-tailed Deer not far off the road, so you only get to enjoy part of the deer. :)
Saint John, #NewBrunswick, Canada
February 2026
📸 #mammals #deer #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf
