I sat in on Saturday morning’s songbird banding session at Oak Hammock Marsh. Among a steady flow of young yellowthroats was a smattering of other confusing fall warblers, sparrows, catbirds, wrens, a phoebe and this wee hummingbird! #birds
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I sat in on Saturday morning’s songbird banding session at Oak Hammock Marsh. Among a steady flow of young yellowthroats was a smattering of other confusing fall warblers, sparrows, catbirds, wrens, a phoebe and this wee hummingbird! #birds
A grackle without tail feathers would be a sight.
Wow! I figured a merlin/grackle encounter would be a pretty fair fight.
Sweet fancy Moses!
“So long, Stinktown!”
Oh, I got lots of embarrassed bird photos!
I sat in at our local bird banding station this morning. Hard to believe that fall migration has been underway for a few weeks already. Lots of jittery birds in the nets, itching to get back to fattening up. #birds
Method Man, in The Wire.
Palila #avianaugust #birdart 🪶
That portrait is fantastic!
She’s history’s greatest monster!
I can’t begin to express my frustration trying to track kingfishers here in the city. You’d think they’d be more used to people!
CURSE YOU BEKI!!!
Thanks! It feels like year over year there are more swans at the marsh. It’s a good feeling.
(Spotted at Oak Hammock Marsh, Manitoba, one morning last week.)
Summer 2025 in Winnipeg, in a nutshell.
Seven (sans one) trumpeter swans a-swimming. #birds
I heard that it burned around the falls themselves, including the viewing deck – and that the yurts were OK.
Oh, me too. This would’ve been one of the three nights we had a yurt booked at Tulabi Falls had it not been canceled on us.
Jimbo spoke in classsss todayyyyyyy…
"log god" and "wood god" honestly describe it better than Pileated Woodpecker
100%.
Agreed, and bless the inventor. During the pandemic when kiddo was punted home for schooling, her teacher sometimes delivered assignments to students’ mailboxes in one of those T-rex costumes.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Wait, who *did* die? All I can think of is former Québec Nordiques goalie Ron Tugnutt.
There’s nothing better on a hot summer day than a shy, reclusive soda.
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Hunh. I prolly would’ve thought it was a young Bonaparte’s without looking closer or seeing how it flies. I missed seeing any black terns this summer!
Ah, thanks so much!
A quartet of barn swallow fledgelings wait on a railing for their parents to still bring food. The parents were more intent on dive-bombing the photographing intruder. #birds
What a time to be alive.
Yeah, but what’s his stance against teaching dogs to smoke?
Lord thundering Jebus.
Happy birthday, baby!
COCK.
A beautiful day at my old office, snuggled in next to Oak Hammock Marsh (Manitoba). Booked an office, saw some birds – confusing fall warblers, noisy catbirds, a trumpeter swan family, but no sign of the black-billed cuckoo banded here yesterday. Plus, it’s just nice to see a sky devoid of smoke.
Big-time congrats! Lifer pie!
Ah! So good.
C’mon, people, don’t fall for the flash – choose the black-and-white warbler!
This is ace!
Pass the vulture on the left hand side.
There had better be!
When in doubt...draw a Crow! Starting a new project #art #bird #nature
100%.
I’m sure you mean *blessed* in owl poop.
A bee bit my bottom, now my bottom big!!!
Our hike in the boreal forest yesterday produced almost zero birds as well. Where do they all hide in August?
Killdeers must be the most uptight and frazzled birds on the planet. Prove me wrong. #birds
That basket came out of nowhere.
Our neighbourhood chimney swifts are packing up to leave as well. Always a treat when they return each year.
Swift. An old piece on the iPad when I was getting to grips with digital. Exploring brushes, textures etc. Been so involved with all the recent BT nonsense I missed my swifts leaving. They’ve gone! Numbers were up this year around my house which is great #swifts #procreate @procreate.com
Amazing, and well done. I love each one of them.
In Canada, it’s Gen Raccoonie.
That’s what those in meteorological circles call a Charlie Brown cloud, or a charliebrownimbus.
“Fill it up with petroleum distillate and revulcanize my tires, post haste!”
Learned how to play Wingspan last night at a neighbours’ place. Buddy here was also keen to figure it out.
F**K BSKY, DO IT LIVE!!!
Avian August 2025 day 11: ʻAnianiau #birds #avianaugust #ʻAnianiau #hawaii #birb #birdart #digitaldrawing #procreate
Day 14: 'Ua'u #AvianAugust #AvianAugust2025 #illustration #art #blackandwhiteart #birds #procreate
I love that I can hear Bill O’Reilly voice that in my head right now, with way more exclamation points than what you have posted. Thanks.
That’s Hitchcock-ian!
Likes > Society
The woodpecker, probably: ”Heeeeeeeere’s Johnny!!”
Wetting his whistle at the thistle bar!
Masked Booby!! #avianaugust #birdart 🪶
One of my favourite sounds out there.
Ah thanks so much, Oly. They are great little birds with great big voices.
A song sparrow, hiding out and blending into some dry marsh vegetation. #birds
What book is it? The Winnipeg library had one in their database but when I ordered it, it quickly disappeared.
Holy frijoles!
The Lazuli Bunting takes its name from lapis lazuli, a blue gemstone as brilliant as the bird itself. #birds #nature #wildlife #photography
Your zoo has a ruddy duck? Lucky zoo.
Mmm-mmmm, a cup of meat you say. I will be right over.
N: Flin Flon, MB E: Roddickton-Bide Arm, NL S: Pelee Island, ON W: Tofino, BC
Make it Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater, and I’m in.
wrens are always bitching out something
Thanks! A picture on BluSky is worth 300 (or less) characters.
A photo of where birds used to be: A minute prior, two merlins chattered noisily overhead, invoking the ire of a nearby kingfisher – who in his blind rage, beaked at them and then hovered and chattered 10 meters over my kayak as I gawked.
Fantastic.
Soylent teen.
Just don’t tell my daughter anything about the world she is inheriting.
I’m 29 years from achieving the average lifespan of a Canadian male, and taking more and more comfort in that every day.
✨Pueo✨ #avianaugust #birdart 🪶
100%.
Well done! You must have an in with our provincial smoke-spread agency.
Move over, Delhi!
Saints be praised! For this one day, the smoke can be someone else’s pain-in-the-butt.
Counterpoint: Never ever.
We think it’s a black spruce.
Thank you, sir. I wish it, too – but also just one clear day before we have to go back to the city.
They’re just my favourite islands in the world. I visit them in the kayak every summer.
Greetings from Lake Athapapuskow in northern Manitoba, where unfortunately that isn’t just grey clouds. But there are the usual suspects, roughing out the smoke: Bonaparte’s gulls, grey jays and oodles and oodles of loons.
That’s the Usain Bolt of soras!
Tramboppaline!!
Ha ha, I remember seeing Deep Inpact at Portage Place – the scene when the president (Morgan Freeman) admits the meteor will strike western Canada, someone in the theatre shouted OH F*CK NO.
