2012/02/27

Birding in Ottawa/Gatineau - Waxwings Edition

This and the next post will be out of (chronological) order simply because I took way too many photos of the following animals - many Bohemian Waxwings (Bombycilla garrulus) and one Cedar Waxwing (B. cedrorum), and I want to post them first. Yesterday was our only day-off in the course, and the course instructor nicely took some of the "birders" in the group to go birding in the Ottawa region.

Towards the end of the trip, we were at Britannia Water Treatment Facility and we saw a large group of Bohemian Waxwings and one Cedar Waxwing. We were able to get fairly close to the birds and so I clicked away with my camera. And as you will see, the rest is indescribable of how beautiful these birds are.

Read this post to tell the two species apart. I got too much "insects" on my mind to figure out who's who in my photos. Maybe when I am less occupied.

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Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

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Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus)

1 comment:

Urban Girl said...

incredible photos!! we just had a birding tour in the city (love to see what others have seen also!)

http://urbanwildtours.blogspot.ca/2012/04/saturday-morning-june-23rd-8-am-birds.html

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