Brian Morin

1736 uploads

Total photos: 1736
Total videos: 0
Species photographed: 343
Most photographed species: Snowy Owl (See all)
Countries visited: 2
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Jan 17 2019
Williamsburg - This is the northern subspecies, a few of which overwinter in the region. Spring migrants will arrive in a little over a month.
Jan 18 2019
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Jan 13 2019
female, adult
Ottawa - these are scrappy birds that regularly have interactions.
Jan 15 2019
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Jan 13 2019
male, adult
Ottawa - I spent a couple of hours on a cold winter morning trying to get shots of a flock near a feeder on a public trail. Numerous branches obscured the birds most of the time but patience delivered in the end.
Jan 14 2019
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Jan 6 2019
adult
Toronto - Ontario's Trumpeter Swans, introduced a few decades ago, winter largely on Lake Ontario between Toronto and Hamilton. They are a familiar sight along the waterfront in the winter.
Jan 11 2019
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Jan 8 2019
male, adult
Rondeau - A high of +12C was enough to get this Carolina Wren to sing about spring. Winter returned the next day :)
Jan 11 2019
0
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Jan 10 2019
male, adult
Burlington
Jan 11 2019
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Jan 2 2019
adult
Ottawa - Last month I posted a picture of a Tree Sparrow but I couldn't confirm until now that the number of winter visitors this year are way down from what we can expect. With Christmas bird counts almost complete for another year, results are showing low to record low numbers across Ontario. I'm not sure why that is. It doesn't suggest that there is anything disastrous happening with the species but it is a curiosity. We'll see this time next year if the numbers return to normal.
Jan 3 2019
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Jan 2 2019
male, adult
Ottawa - In winter, in a year when subjects can be hard to find, you take what you can get. What you can't see is the degree of difficulty shooting down on the subject from a pedestrian bridge where the railing interferes with the lens (on tripod) on a brisk winter afternoon at -14C.
Jan 3 2019
0
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Jan 1 2019
female, adult
Ottawa - There is good news on the woodpecker front. All of the southern species in Ontario are showing an upward trend in their populations. This includes the Pileated which is experiencing record highs on Christmas counts in many areas. My take on this, and I was expecting it, is that it is related to the decimation of native ash trees due to the emerald ash borer. Almost 10% of the tree population in the southern part of the province is ash. The white ash will be almost wiped out in the next very few years as the onslaught continues. The species is virtually gone in the south.
Jan 3 2019
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Jan 2 2019
adult
Williamsburg - I went looking for a Barred that a friend had told me about the day before. After some looking I spotted it enjoying some late day sun.
Jan 3 2019
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