Cackling Geese

 

Immature Red-tailed Hawk

 

Iceland Gull

 

Happy National Bird Day!

 Here is a Northern Flicker attempting to hide behind the tiny cones in a tamarack larch tree this morning.

Overwintering Sparrows

Song Sparrow on the left and Field Sparrow on the right.

 

Cedar Waxwing

 

Red-tailed Hawk

 

Wild Turkey

 

Eastern Bluebird

 

Solstice Greetings!

Winter Solstice begins at 10:27 pm EST

Female Northern Cardinal

 

Solstice Eve Sunset

 

American Tree Sparrow

 

Mammatus and Cumulonimbus Clouds Over Lake Erie

 

Northern Shrike

 

Red Squirrel

 

December Sunset

 

Great Blue Heron

 

Glaucous Gull (1st Cycle)

 

Bonaparte's Gulls

 

Merlin

 

Immature Bald Eagle

 

Brown-headed Cowbirds

Most Brown Cowbirds depart to warmer climates for the winter.  However, a few stay in the area and brave the winter weather here.

 

Red Phalarope (continuing for a second day)

 

Red Phalarope

 

Lesser Black-backed Gull

 

Red-tailed Hawk

 

Pomarine Jaeger

 Distant photos of a Pomarine Jaeger over Lake Erie on a very windy day.

Dunlin

 

Feeding Frenzy

Bonaparte's Gulls and Red-breasted Mergansers

 

Bonaparte's Gull

 

Common Loon

 

Song Sparrow

 

Autumn Cloudscape Over Lake Erie

 

Juvenile Dark Morph Rough-legged Hawk

 

Waxing Gibbous Moon

The waxing gibbous moon leading up to the full Hunter's Moon.

 

Bald Eagle

 

Long-billed Dowitcher