![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium6/photo10404.jpg) The Actor Brown Pelican (Pelicanus occidentalis) ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19427.jpg) Black-capped Chickadee Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapella ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo15837.jpg) Nanday Parakeet Nandayus nenday
![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo18599.jpg) Black Vulture Coragyps atratus ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo16153.jpg) Osprey ![](images/cameraicon1.png) |
![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo18616.jpg) Limpkin Aramus guarauna Limpkin, shot at sunset, preparing for its evening meal. Limpkins are very uncommon outside of Florida. With a length of 26 inches and a weight of 2.4 pounds, they look like giant waders, but five times the size of a Willet, for example. ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium5/photo9243.jpg) Reconnaissance Brown Pelicans are impressive low-level fliers. They can often be seen flying at water level. When gliding, the breast feathers will almost touch the water. Then as the bird flaps its wings, it will rise just enough to keep the down-stroke of the wing out of the water.. ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium5/photo9250.jpg) Morning This Brown Pelican was shot from the North Fishing Pier at the Sunshine Skyway; that's the bridge in the background. Despite the fact that the pelicans seem to have bodies that could never fly, they quite enjoy long glides on air currents near their feeding grounds. I can't get over how, in even my best quality photos, the feathers never seem to be feathers. Here is there is a metallic or plastic sheen that I am sure would not be seen on other birds in the same light. ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19374.jpg) Brown Pelican Brown Pelican Pelicanus occidentalis ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium4/photo6017.jpg) The Enforcer This Brown Pelican has bold breeding colours. In the breeding season, the head is yellower, and the nape of the neck becomes dark brown. ![](images/cameraicon1.png) |
![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo18615.jpg) ND3_24046 Juvenile Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja The juvenile Spoonbill still has a feathered head. In another year, it will have the same featherless head as its parents. This was shot just before sunset. The late afternoon sun has cast the shodow of its bill halfway down its back. ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19365.jpg) Cormorant Double Crested Cormorant Phalacrocorax auritus ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium6/photo12575.jpg) ND3_0438 Brown Pelican (Pelicanus occidentalis) ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo15298.jpg) ND2_33832 Brown Pelican Pelicanus occidentalis ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium5/photo9239.jpg) Heartbreaker Brown Pelican (Pelicanus occidentalis) ![](images/cameraicon1.png) |
![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium5/photo9245.jpg) You Talkin' to Me? Brown Pelican ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo16902.jpg) ND2_30701 Brown Pelican Pelicanus occidentalis ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo17824.jpg) ND2_21726 Great Blue Heron Ardea herodias Great Blue Heron posing for profile shot. Notice how the feathers are swept to the camera-side shoulder. From any sort of distance, Great Blues look uniformly gray. I am always surprised by the amount of colour that is actually there. ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19370.jpg) Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea> ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19373.jpg) ND3_21831 Little Blue Heron Egretta caerulea> ![](images/cameraicon1.png) |
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![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo16915.jpg) Reddish Egret Reddish Egret Egretta rufescens ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo18603.jpg) Juvenile White Ibis White Ibis Eudocimus albus ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium6/photo12837.jpg) Great Egret Ardea alba
![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium6/photo12182.jpg) Great Egret Ardea alba A Great Egret in the early evening at the Pier. Great Egrets can be distinguished from Snowy Egrets because they are bigger by a foot or so and have all-black legs and feet. The bill of a Snowy Egret is all black, while this one clearly has yellow. ![](images/cameraicon1.png) |
![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19344.jpg) Great Egret Ardea alba ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium6/photo9868.jpg) Snowy Egret ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo18266.jpg) Snowy Egret Snowy Egret Egretta thula ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo17489.jpg) Night Heron Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nyctanassa violacea ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium5/photo9166.jpg) ND2_21891 Juvenile Yellow-Crowned Night Heron (Nyctanassa violacea) ![](images/cameraicon1.png) |
![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19778.jpg) Common Loon Gavia immer ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19798.jpg) Common Loon Gavia immer ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo17506.jpg) Roseate Spoonbill Roseate Spoonbill Platalea ajaja Not just another pretty face. ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19345.jpg) Yellow-billed Stork Mycteria ibis> ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo18591.jpg) Northern Pintail Anas acuta ![](images/cameraicon1.png) |
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![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo18585.jpg) Red Shouldered Hawk ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo17185.jpg) Osprey Osprey Pandion haliaetus ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo15471.jpg) Osprey Pandion haliaetus
![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo15500.jpg) Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus
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This one of a nesting pair at Honeymoon Island State Park near Dunedin, Florida. ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo16910.jpg) Piping Plover Piping Plover Charadrius melodus ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19366.jpg) ND3_19393 Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19364.jpg) Black-bellied Plover Juvenile Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium5/photo9241.jpg) American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus) ![](images/cameraicon1.png) |
![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo15302.jpg) Willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatas ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo17488.jpg) Willet Willet Catoptrophorus semipalmatas ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo17024.jpg) ND2_23715 Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo17251.jpg) Dunlin Calidris alpina The Dunlin is half the size of the similar looking Willet and about 3/4 the size of a Robin. This would be non-breeding plumage. ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo17257.jpg) Least Sandpiper Calidris minutilla This tiny sandpiper weighs 20 grams; less than an ounce. It breeds throughout North America. ![](images/cameraicon1.png) |
![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo15052.jpg) Sanderling Calidris alba ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium6/photo12216.jpg) ND2_29996 Great Black-backed Gull Larus marinus This gull is common on the Atlantic coast, but is quite rare on the Gulf coast, so ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo16900.jpg) ND2_29920 Laughing Gull in Winter colour at sunset. ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo17176.jpg) Laughing Gull Dressed up and trying to impress. Laughing Gull in breeding colours, Larus atricilla ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo15836.jpg) ND3_3437 Laughing Gull Larus Atricilla ![](images/cameraicon1.png) |
![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo16381.jpg) Laughing Gull ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo15291.jpg) Ring-Billed Gull
![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo16953.jpg) DSC_9840 Royal Tern Sterna maxima ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo16512.jpg) Royal Tern Sterna maxima ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo16514.jpg) ND2_29896 Royal Tern Sterna maxima ![](images/cameraicon1.png) |
![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium6/photo13877.jpg) DSC_22506 ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo15061.jpg) Willet ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19460.jpg) ND3_28585 Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19441.jpg) Norther Cardinal Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19462.jpg) NZ6_00742 Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis ![](images/cameraicon1.png) |
![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo14454.jpg) ND3_9234 Barred Owl Strix varia ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium7/photo17184.jpg) ND3_17788 Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo18600.jpg) ND3_24194 ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19906.jpg) Wood Duck Wood Duck Aix sponsa Seen at Mud Lake in Ottawa, October 23, 2023 ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19473.jpg) NZ6_00894 Dark-eyed Junco Junco hyemalis ![](images/cameraicon1.png) |
![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19466.jpg) NZ6_00612 Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19464.jpg) Common Redpoll Common Redpoll Carduelis flammea ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | ![Click here for full sized image Click here for full-sized image](http://www.mikemackay.ca/photos_medium/medium8/photo19465.jpg) Downy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Picoides pubescens ![](images/cameraicon1.png) | | |