DOWNY WOODPECKERS FEEDING AT TREE & FEEDER, LIGHTHOUSE AREA, PRESQU'ILE PROVINCIAL PARK, BRIGHTON, ON

   The Downy Woodpecker in the first three photos is a female, it does not have the red on the rear of head.  The Downy Woodpecker at the feeder in the fourth photo is a male; you can see the red at the rear of the head.

NONBREEDING SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, OWEN POINT, PRESQU'ILE PROVINCIAL PARK, BRIGHTON, ON

JUVENILE SANDERLINGS, OWEN POINT, PRESQU'ILE PROVINCIAL PARK, BRIGHTON, ON

   We can ID these sandpipers as juvenile Sanderlings as follows:

• Black legs and tubular, black bill.
• Clean white below.
• Spangled black and white above with alot of contrast.
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NONBREEDING MALE MALLARDS, PRESQ'ILE PROVINCIAL PARK, BRIGHTON, ON

   On the Mallard in front you can see the distictive speculum: blue-purple with black and white borders.  We can iD these Mallards as nonbreeding males by their yellow bills with a black dot (rather than the orange bills of the females) and by their grayish necks (rather than the green necks of breeding male Mallards).

CANADA GEESE, BAY OF QUINTE, ZWICKS CENTENNIAL PARK, BELLEVILLE, ON

MOURNING DOVE ON WIRE, THRASHER RD., PLAINFIELD, ON

TURTLES, H.R. FINK CONSERVATION AREA, PLAINFIELD, ON