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Copyright Brian Morin
Birdviewing.com
Jul 12 2017
male, adult
Limoges
Jul 13 2017
30
Copyright Brian Morin
Birdviewing.com
Jul 4 2017
adult, molting
Point Pelee National Park -
Jul 7 2017
32
Copyright Brian Morin
Birdviewing.com
Jul 4 2017
male, adult, outside normal range
Wheatley - the Dickcissel saga continues. Following my first sighting a couple of weeks ago I am now up to 30 birds in three locations in southwestern Ontario. Most were in colonies like Bobolinks.
Jul 7 2017
31
Copyright Brian Morin
Birdviewing.com
Jul 2 2017
female, adult, outside normal range
Leamington - a great bird for the province.
Jul 7 2017
29
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Copyright Brian Morin
Birdviewing.com
Jul 3 2017
adult
Leamington
Jul 7 2017
13
Copyright Brian Morin
Birdviewing.com
Jul 3 2017
male, adult
Leamington
Jul 7 2017
9
Copyright stephane
Birdviewing.com
Jun 30 2017
Parc national de l'Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé, Gaspésie

Last one for tonight. It's not difficult to take photos of gannets at this colony. The difficulty is in trying to isolate one interesting scene! Birds are constantly shifting up and down, getting in the way.

Here, just one bird on the edge of the colony.
Jul 1 2017
14
Copyright stephane
Birdviewing.com
Jun 10 2017
Close-up portrait of a gannet. They pick up just about anything and everything for the nest. Here, a small feather. Countless times I saw a gannet picking up a small feather such as this, meticulously place it at the edge of the nest, only to have it blow away in the ever present wind.
Jul 1 2017
7
Copyright stephane
Birdviewing.com
Jun 10 2017
Gannets engaging in typical gannet behaviour. From the Parc national de l'Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé, Gaspésie.

Males and females frequently engage in "fencing", where they knock their beaks together with their necks outstretched. It always happens in the minute after a mate arrives at the nest.
Jul 1 2017
24
Copyright stephane
Birdviewing.com
Jun 10 2017
Gannet from the Parc national de l'Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé, Gaspésie.

The male and female gannets are nearly identical, but I believe this may be a male arriving at the nest. Each and every time the male lands at the nest, he launches into an attack on the female's neck. Here, we appear to see the female, right below the landing bird, exposing her neck in submission, to diffuse the male gannet's aggression.
Jul 1 2017
14