These are my favourite bird pictures from our recent trip to Alpena and Mackinac Island. I saw a few other life birds (see previous posts), but I didn't get pictures of everything. There are also a couple pictures of ducks that I haven't identified yet...I will post those when I figure them out :) As always, if I have misidentified a bird, please let me know....
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| Bald Eagle soaring over the Alpena Harbour |
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| Turkey Vulture...literally about 10 feet in front of where I was standing! |
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| Double Crested Cormorants, Mackinac Island |
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| Double crested Cormorants, Lake Huron, off Mackinac City |
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| Ring billed Gull, Mackinac Island |
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| Double crested Coromorant, Mackinac Island |
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| Spotted Sandpiper, Alpena Harbour |
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| Ring billed Gull, Mackinac Island. Have you seen one perched in a tree before? I hadn't :) |
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| Common Mergansers, Mackinac Island |
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| Turkey Vulture, soaring over Alpena Harbour |
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| Caspian Tern, Bayview Park, Alpena |
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| Gull towing a dead fish by its entrails :S, Alpena Harbour |
Wow! Not too often do you see a turkey vulture pose like that.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the lifer in Ottawa! Where did you go birding while you were here? I hope you will write a post about it!
I didn't to specifically go birding while in Ottawa.....we went to Pink Lake and the Mackenzie King Estate. I saw one new bird that day, but I have yet to identify it. We also went to Brewer Pond (more to catch frogs for the kids). The nuthatch I saw while sitting on my brother's deck....he is steps from the Rideau in Old Ottawa South. I will post soon, but it will be pretty short :)
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