GREAT EGRETS & GREAT BLUE HERONS, CRANBERRY MARSH, LYNDE SHORES CONSERVATION AREA, WHITBY, ON

WOOD DUCKS, CRANBERRY MARSH, LYNDE SHORES CONSERVATION AREA, WHITBY, ON

   The first photo is of a male Wood Duck in nonbreeding plumage.  The male in the second photo is starting to molt into breeding plumage.  You can see the duck getting  more of a crest, its crown is starting to turn green and it is getting more bluish in the rear of its upperparts.  September is generally when this molting from nonbreeding to breeding plumage takes place.

   In the third photo the Wood Ducks on the left and the right are females and the one inbetween is a male.  The ducks in the fourth and fifth photos are all males, while those in the last photo are a mixture of males and females.

ROOST OF DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS, CRANBERRY MARSH, LYNDE SHORES CONSERVATION AREA, WHITBY ON

MOURNING DOVE, LYNDE SHORES CONSERVATION AREA, WHITBY, ON

GULLS & A LIGHTHOUSE, HARBOR, COBOURG, ON

   We thought the juxtaposition of the gulls and the lighthouse made a good photo.  As far as we could determine the gulls were all Ring-billed Gulls in various stages of development.

SMALL WHITE BUTTERFLY PRINCE EDWARD POINT NATIONAL WILDLIFE AREA, MILFORD, ON

   This Small Wite Butterfly is also known as the Small Cabbage White.

BANDED JUVENILE FEMALE MAGNOLIA WARBLER, PRINCE EDWARD POINT BIRD OBSERVATORY, MILFORD, ON

   We can't see a band in this photo,  but the warbler had just been banded.  Even though we only have a rear view we can ID this warbler as juvenile female Magnolia Warbler by its yellow rump, gray crown, olive-gray upperparts and two narrow white wing-bars.