E-bike on a trail leading into green hills.

Getting there is half the fun!!!

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Female mallards, or hens, are more subtly colored, with mottled brown plumage, a darker crown, and an orange bill with dark markings. Both genders have a distinctive iridescent blue speculum bordered by white on their wings.

Good Morning Bird Sky! 🪶🌿🦉🦆

Shhh we's sleepin' - beside a water place.
Marie Curtis Park, Etobicoke - Ontario.
(via Etobicoke Creek Trail SB 🚲)

#Birds #Ducks #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #ForestTherapy #PhotoBike #BikeHike

It's a me! Watching herons on the water at Colonel Samuel Smith Park, actually. Canon camera at the ready. Hybrid bicycle nearby at my side. A small collage of Night Herons, adult and juvenile, a blue jay, and one of those gold crowned kinglets. Swapped my helmet for my hat because of the bright sun. Yes terminal beard is long and white, and has been in existence for at least a decade.

Can confirm , am not professional - professionals get paid, I've never been paid for any of my photography as of yet. I would like to, but it hasn't happened.

Am just another bloke with camera at this point.

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The word "quiscula" comes from the specific name Gracula quiscula, which was coined by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 to describe the common grackle. As predators, Grackles help provide pest control services to the environment by consuming insects like mosquitoes, black flies, and ants. Their most substantial role in the ecosystem lies within their droppings. Grackles are in the Icteridae, or blackbird family, which includes orioles and cowbirds. Crows are corvids, more closely related to jays and magpies.

Good Afternoon Birdsky! 🌿

🦉 Grackle yellow eye upon branch. (Quiscalus quiscula)

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The Credit River originates in the headwaters of the Niagara Escarpment near Orangeville and Caledon, and empties into Lake Ontario in Mississauga. The Credit River is approximately 90 kilometres long with a watershed that encompasses 1,000 square kilometres.

Serene day on the Credit River watershed. 🏞️
Riverwood Conservancy - Mississauga, Ontario.

🍁🤠📷🤙📿
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A young eastern cottontail in the leafy undergrowth standing on a log.

Bun, bun, bunny on the rabbity road.🐇
High Park - Toronto, Ontario.
🤠📷🤙📿🍁

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#UrbanForest #SignalBoost #Wildlife #Rabbits

Compact, no-necked and short-tailed bird with a long, sharply pointed bill. Note blue-gray back, stark white cheeks, and black cap. From below, it has a white belly and rusty spots near its rear.

White bellied nuthatch. Just birdin' around. 🪶
Culham Trail - Credit River - Riverwood Conservancy.
Mississauga, Ontario.
🍁🤠📷🦅🤙📿

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Bun bun bunny, on trail ... (this is late evening so it's actually darker than you're seeing here.), I almost missed it. Juvenile eastern cottontail rabbit, brown with some white bits, on a dark evening trail (brightened up in the edit), there's a leafy sparse grass verge on either side.

Bun bun bunny, on trail ... (this is late evening so it's actually darker than you're seeing here.), I almost missed it. 🪶🐇📷🤠🤙📿🍁

Colonel Samuel Smith Park - Etobicoke.
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Parked at tree, glorious black Norco carrying a bar bag, two bidons, a mirror. It's red reflective strips adorn the rear fork. We're parked against a tree, don't need no kickstand m'kay. We're on a trail path somewhere inside Colonel Samuel Smith Park in Etobicoke. There are trees literally everywhere.

It was parked here ... pondering where next to go, while hydrating and having a gel pack. 🪶🦅📷🤠🤙📿

Colonel Samuel Smith Park - Etobicoke, Ontario.

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A green heron leaps headfirst off a log and into the water below to capture a fish for dinner. Afterwards he successfully swallowed the fish, then as two dragonflies passed he snapped out and snared them as well to chase the fish down. This particular little heron was quite very hungry that day and very active all afternoon.

Green heron diving in for a fishy at the upper storm water pond in High Park. Toronto. 🪶🦅📷🤠📿
(Archives).

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Look deep into those eyes, she's looking deep into your very soul. This is a Red tailed hawk.

PH33R ! Great Redtailed hawk, lookin' right at you! 🦅
High Park - Toronto.
🪶📷🤠 (Archives).

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The Black Swallowtail is a medium to large butterfly with a wingspan of about 3 to 4 inches (7-10 cm). Sexual dimorphism is evident, as males and females exhibit different color patterns. Male Black Swallowtail: Males display more vibrant colors with a predominately black upper side of wings.

Black swallowtails in the meadow at High Park. Toronto.
🦋🪶📷🤠
(Archives)

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The Dekay's brownsnake (Storeria dekayi) is brown, light brown or grey. It always has two parallel rows of small dark spots bordering a faint, wide stripe down the back. On some brownsnakes, these parallel spots may appear connected. These are a small non-venomous species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to North America and Central America.

Etobicoke Creek Trail, coming up the hill on my bike I spotted this DeKays Brownsnake, so I grabed a few quick images, ensured it was safely off the very busy trail and left it alone. 🐍🚲🪶📷🤠

#BikeTrails #PhotoBike #Wildlife #Nature #Reptilia #WildTO #BikeTO #BikeSauga #BikeSky #Serpent

Often appears pale overall, even the boldly black-and-white striped back, with flashing red cap and nape. Look for white patches near the wingtips as this bird flies.

Red-bellied woodpecker. 🦉🪶📷🤠
High Park - Toronto. (Archives)

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Red eye'd beauty, in print.

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Red eye'd beauty. This Coopers Hawk exist in my home as a 24"x36" vertical print. Captured on the Little Etobicoke Creek Trail nearby.

This Coopers Hawk exist in my home as a 24"x36" vertical print. Captured on the Little Etobicoke Creek Trail nearby.
🪶🦉📷🤠

*some of my images can be made available in print media should it pique anyone's interest.

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Brown shadow (squirrel) tail peeks through the underbrush. Likely having himself a snack while he eyeballs you.

Brown shadow tail peeks through the underbrush. Likely having himself a snack while he eyeballs you. 🪶📷🤠🐿️

#WildTO #Wildlife #Mamals #Critters #Squirrel #PhotoHike
#PhotoBike

Double breasted cormorant. High Park - Toronto (archives).

Double breasted cormorant. 🪶📷🤠🦉
High Park - Toronto
(archives)

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Oi - gonna be hot hot hot again. I'd considered taking the Canon out for a ride (still might?), just I don't wanna sweat so much. Mississauga, Ontario.

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That's what I said! Great blue heron - High Park, Toronto

That's what I said!
Great blue heron - High Park, Toronto. 🦉

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Scream into the void, why don't we! Black crowned night heron - High Park. Toronto. 🪶📷🤠🦉

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Up on a high branch of a tree a redtail sits and is startled by another redtail swooping in on a mock surprise attack!

Boo ya! Redtail surprise attack! 🪶📷🤠

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#PhotoHike #PhotoBike

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Adults are clean gray above, with a white head, body and tail; their black wingtips are spotted with white. They have yellow legs and a yellow bill with a black band around it. Nonbreeding adults have brown-streaked heads.

Just givin' the 'ole feathers a nice press through with this versatile bill of mine. Colonel Samuel Smith Park, Etobicoke, Ontario. 🪶📸

#Wildlife #Waterfowl #Birds #PhotoBike #PhotoHike #GTA

Groundhogs weigh around 7-14 lbs and are around 25 inches in length, including the tail. Their fur is a yellowish-brown to black in color. They have short legs and a bushy tail. Groundhogs have short, powerful limbs and thick claws.

An early evening ground hog (Marmota monax), scrounging around Colonel Samuel Smith Park, looking for tasty morsels. Etobicoke, Ontario. 🪶📷

#Wild #Wildlife #Nature #PhotoBike #PhotoHike #PhotoWalk #GroundHog

The name Merganser, that is, 'Diving Goose', has reference to the size of the bird and its habit of diving for its food.

Mergus, a local common merganser, slips past on the water at Colonel Samuel Smith Park. Etobicoke, Ontario. 🪶📷

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Double-crested Cormorants are large waterbirds with small heads on long, kinked necks. They have thin, strongly hooked bills, roughly the length of the head. Their heavy bodies sit low in the water.

No this isn't a Blue eyed Samurai - This is a Double Crested Cormorant on the Lake Ontario waterfront at Colonel Samuel Smith Park. Etobicoke, Ontario 🪶📷

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"I saw a fish, it was this big, really I did, just five minutes ago". Long tailed ducks on the Lake Ontario waters at Colonel Samuel Smith Park. Etobicoke , Ontario. 🪶🦆

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Among a small field of tree swallow nesting boxes a young herring gull wanders around looking for it's own nesting possibilities only to realize this is the wrong place.

Hey wait a minute, this is a swallows nest box, I'm not a swallow. What's going on here at Colonel Samuel Smith Park, and where are my nesting grounds? Etobicoke, Ontario. 🪶

#Birds #Guls #Wildlife #NestBox #Wildlife #PhotoBike

Common Terns are pale gray overall with a black cap. Breeding birds have a fully black cap that extends to the back of the neck and a gray belly. They also have an orange bill tipped in black and orange legs. Nonbreeding birds have a white forehead, a partial black cap, and black legs and bill

Whimbrel Point a common tern hunts for a fishy dinner over the waters. Colonel Samuel Smith Park - Etobicoke, Ontario.🪶

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