Happy Dance / Saluting a neighbour/

The cormorant and the loon are birds a plenty in the North Kawartha Region. I spend many weekends each summer and fall in a rented island cottage on Stoney Lake. The cormorants lite on a rock outcropping to the east about 30+ metres from the island. On this particular day they were quite active, arriving for a break while on their fly-by. I saw this as fortuitous timing as a boater was coming into the frame as I was shooting. I shot it with my Nikon D5100 with a 70-300 lens. As for the loon, on a different weekend, it was dancing around the North West side of the island while I watched and waited from my 18-foot Prospector canoe. The water droplets dripping off his beak on this shot contributed to the only image in a dozen-plus shots which which showed the true character of the loon. I have photographed many of these two birds over the years, but these recent ones stand out.

Happy Dance / Saluting a neighbour/

The cormorant and the loon are birds a plenty in the North Kawartha Region. I spend many weekends each summer and fall in a rented island cottage on Stoney Lake. The cormorants lite on a rock outcropping to the east about 30+ metres from the island. On this particular day they were quite active, arriving for a break while on their fly-by. I saw this as fortuitous timing as a boater was coming into the frame as I was shooting. I shot it with my Nikon D5100 with a 70-300 lens. As for the loon, on a different weekend, it was dancing around the North West side of the island while I watched and waited from my 18-foot Prospector canoe. The water droplets dripping off his beak on this shot contributed to the only image in a dozen-plus shots which which showed the true character of the loon. I have photographed many of these two birds over the years, but these recent ones stand out.

It was March, and I was staying at the cottage of a very good friend of mine who passed away recently. We were walking down the Lake Huron shoreline, opposite direction from the Bruce Power Plant when I spotted the eagle sitting on a bare branch about 30 feet up. I was walking with my Nikon D5100 with my 70-300 zoom lens when it looped out over the water from one tree to another. It did that about four times as we approached it, then it flew down the coastline. We had walked along with it, slowly and quietly, and I kept shooting. I probably took around 30 shots. I had been going to the area for many years and this was my first encounter with an eagle. It was a thrilling experience. It was certainly a majestic, photographic bird. It is something that we shared that I will always remember.