LESSER YELLOWLEGS, CRANBERRY MARSH, LYNDE SHORES CONSERVATION AREA, WHITBY, ON

   This Yellowlegs can be identified as a Lesser Yellowlegs by the size of its bill compared to the size of its head.  In a Lesser Yellowlegs the bill's length is about the same size as the width of its head, while in a Greater Yellowlegs it is about 1 1/2 x the size.

EASTERN KINGBIRD SPREADING ITS WINGS TO TAKEOFF, CRANBERRY MARSH, LYNDE SHORES CONSERVATION AREA, WHITBY, ON

GREAT EGRET & WOOD DUCK, CRANBERRY MARSH, LYNDE SHORES CONSERVATION AREA, WHITBY, ON

   Thought this was a nice photo, the juxtaposition of the Great Egret ans Wood Duck.  The Wood Duck has some of its breeding plumage, but not all.

BLUE JAY EYEING SUNFLOWER SEEDS, LYNDE SHORES CONSERVATION AREA, WHITBY, ON

   At one of the overlooks at Cranberry Marsh, two women had laid out sunflower seeds for birds ( you are allowed to feed song birds, but no other birds or wildlife).  This Blue Jay eyed the seeds and area for quite a while and flew away and came back, but finally decided to get them.

DOE, LYNDE SHORES CONSERVATION AREA, WHITBY, ON

   As we were walking back from an overlook at Cranberry Marsh to the car we came cross this female deer in the woods.  It just kept staring at us; probably protecting its fawn (s).  Another birder had seen a fawn earlier.

TRAILL'S FLYCATCHER, LYNDE SHORES CONSERVATION AREA, WHITBY, ON

   This flycatcher is either a Willow Flycatcher or a Alder Flycatcher.   They are very close in appearance and you can generally only differentiate them by their calls; which we weren't able to do.  At one time they were considered to be the same species: Traill's Flycatcher; so that is what we are calling it.

FEMALE AMERICAN ROBIN, LYNDE SHORES CONSERVATION AREA, WHITBY, ON

   We identified this as a female American Robin as follows:

• The head is grey, rather the the black of a male.
• The breast and flankks are pale orange, rather then the more reddish of the male.