Live in forest but woefully ignorant. Love our hummingbirds, fearless chickadees and big (slow peck) and small (fast peck) woodpeckers. Find vultures and turkeys really thrilling and totally envy Stinky's 'obligatory' eagles. Loved the grey jays that ate off our hands in Algonquin, the blue jays anywhere, the robins I didn't realise were robins until a kindergartener explained and the colourful Orioles. Even love the geese and goslings who hold me up on the school run, and the noisy food-demanding mallards at our last rental house, who swam in the pool. Everything else I see is a mysterious, unknown bonus.

All the birds you like, and maybe some you don't!
https://inse-photography.smugmug.com/All-the-Birds

I thought that you might be tempted:lol
Great photos.. iPad mini?

A few more
Great horned owlet
North Murican Robin/thrushy type thing - yep-too dark on the left but I can't adjust and post- it will have to do
It might be.. an eagle....

Goodnight Stinky



(Great photos, by the way)

The irony did not escape me...but it was the only bird photo I had on my iPad. And takes just this week.

Top quality bird pictures from yourself...are you a twitcher by any chance?

Oh heavens I'm so jealous Oink, I'd love to see the seals, the sea lions and the orcas!

But... I do see quite a few eagles, and cormorants. Sea gulls are the most magical of birds, their haunting cry brings memories of every wet seaside holiday
I've ever suffered! For some reason they frequent Walmart's car park here, and I often go there when it's closed just to listen to them.

This is an interesting little story about a hummingbird.

http://1funny.com/man-dog-hummingbird

How long to drive to the sea from Fredericton?

I kind of thought so
Thanks- no, not a twitcher but I can never get bored of watching them. Where we live, the eagles and ospreys are forever around- so majestic. We stood on our deck and four eagles were soaring overhead, chattering and calling. I love the seasonal changes of birds, you can virtually tell by what birds you see what month or two you are in. I'm kind of Jack of all trades photography wise, mainly wildlife and landscape but will turn my hand to most things aside from studio work and weddings... ie, anything except those fields that might actually earn some money! ... But I digress ..
That dog/ hummingbird story is very cute PC

thats a low blow

We see eagles rarely, maybe twice in the past ten years but osprey and plentiful. It's wonderful to watch them flying over the back yard and sometimes they drop the fish they've caught which delights and confuses the cat. The prospect that one might drop a snake gives me the willies.

And talking of cardinals. My very Catholic and early dementia MIL was very worried when we told her we had cardinals in the backyard. She also thought we lived in a shack with a tin roof. (Wooden frame house with metal roof)

Seagulls are annoying little gits that steal yer chips and poo everywhere.

Ages...we are in the middle of bloody nowhere....as Bristol will attest to. I like Moncton, where he lives, but have visited it once since I've lived here....the drive is 2-3 hours of deathly boredom. Bristol can get to the sea in 45 minutes to an hour? In the other direction we have Saint Stephen....you arrive for the first visit full of hope and realize that you have been equally cheated !

I hate "here" and YES it's all my fault!

We have quite a few nice looking little birds that come in for two to three days on a migratory passage and fill my garden with their eating and tweeting...a little group of bright yellow numbers, that my husband told me were 'migratory canaries' were here today...very exciting...

No eagles!!

Female bluebird
One of Millie's canaries? American Goldfinch
Merlin... Small bird, big badass attitude

I think this is a Black-Crowned Night Heron.
I was lucky to spot her resting in a tree - (Bali, early May), even more so when she obligingly turned 90 degrees for the camera!

JC3