A bald eagle in profile, sitting in a poplar.

Took my camera on a whim yesterday (It's still winter here) and I'm glad I did. Saw this right in the parking lot.
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Two bald eagles sitting on a branch, with one of them looking at the camera and the other in profile.

Starting off the new year with a bang.
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A yellow warbler clinging to a cattail seed head.

A yellow warbler playing peekaboo.
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A bald eagle just taking off from its nest.

Eagle-1, you have permission for takeoff.
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A hooded merganser swimming in Lake Superior

Either this is a hooded merganser, or Don King has been reincarnated.
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A belted kingfisher sitting on a branch, showing off his faux-hawk.

The kingfisher has returned. Let's see if he'll pose for me as well as he did last year.
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A male hooded merganser swimming between ice sheets just off a rocky shore on Lake Superior

It may be a hooded merganser instead of a Norwegian blue, but it still has beautiful plumage.
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Two mallards swimming in Lake Superior.

A nice mallard couple playing in the surf.
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A juvenile bald eagle perched in the top of a spruce tree

A young bald eagle glaring at everyone from his tree.
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A great blue heron, knee deep in lake superior, with a minnow in its beak.

A great blue heron grabbing a snack before dinner
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A snow bunting sitting on a dirty white rock, looking over its shoulder at the camera.

A snow bunting stopping for a break on the way south.
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Two goldeneye ducks, one male and one female, swimming in the water between ice floes on lake Superior

The Goldeneyes are returning.
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A lesser Yellowlegs standing in some mud on the shore of Lake Superior

A Lesser Yellowlegs
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A brown headed cowbird sitting in a conifer.

For today's viewing pleasure, I give to you, a Brown Headed Cowbird (cow sold separately)
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A belted kingfisher sitting on a branch.

A belted kingfisher showing off it's belt.
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A tree swallow in flight just in front of a nesting box with another tree swallow poking its head out the entrance hole.

A tree swallow returning home after work to be met by their spouse at the front door.
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A white throated sparrow sitting on the leaf litter beneath a spruce tree

White throated sparrows always look like they dye their eyebrows to me.
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A brown mink on the shore of Lake superior, looking towards the camera through some branches and cattails.

A mink, glaring at me through the reeds.
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5 baby goldeneye chicks swimming in a V with a gap on the right hand side.

The missing puffball formation?
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A Canada Goose in Lake Superior with his wings extended in front of him, a beach is in the background.

I think this goose is a wizard in disguise.
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A kestrel sitting on a power line with flat clouds in the background.

A kestrel adding a bit of colour to a cloudy day.
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A cedar waxwing feeds a berry to another waxwing while they both sit on the same branch.

Romance isn't dead.
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A Merganser duck sitting on a rock sticking out of Lake Superior on a sunny day.

It's a nice, sunny, duck sitting on a rock kind of day today.
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A great blue heron standing in some water just off shore, beside a large rock.

A Great Blue Heron posing for the camera.
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Every birdy was kung-fu fighting...
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A Goldeneye sitting on a rock.
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Tree swallow, checking the wings before takeoff.
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Mergansers are always silly.
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I wonder what happened to the dinosaurs...
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A Lesser yellowlegs teaching the kids how to forage for food.
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