Ontario - 2013 - Final Day

My Bark Butter feeder design 

We are leaving tomorrow and soon will be back in Winnipeg. We have made two nice cedar bluebird houses with a predator guard and hinge, a pine American Kestrel box with a hinge, its all packed up in the van and we will assemble it when we get home, and a robin or barn swallow or phoebe nesting shelf while we were here. I also made a really quick Bark Butter feeder too. There will be nails for perches which you can also put oranges on for orioles. I'll nail the back onto a tree. We are taking home a bird feeder from.

The two bluebird boxes

Bluebird box with lid open

Ontario - 2013 - Week Four

This is our last week in Ontario, then we'll head back to Winnipeg. There has been a Red-bellied Woodpecker hanging around the suet here. We don't get these in Winnipeg so it was exiting. 

Chickadee singing

 My brothers went canoeing in Hamilton when I was camping with my friend. They saw swans, the only Bald Eagle family that lives in Hamilton, shorebirds, a Red-tailed Hawk, a Great Egret and a Great-blue Heron.

My brother has been getting some good pictures of birds too.

Chickadee singing

When they were canoeing they found swan feathers almost a foot and half long!

Red-bellied Woodpecker

 I am pretty sure there was some Merlins living at the lake where I was camping.

female Northern Cardinal

Mourning Dove

Red-bellied Woodpecker

I was bored so i doodled on the Red-bellied Woodpecker :)

Ontario - 2013 - Niagara and Bird Kingdom

We went to Niagara for the day. We also went to Bird Kingdom, a tropical bird aviary place. Since it was all tropical birds I barely knew any of the birds but later identified most of them from their website.

A gull

 The Falls

Niagara Falls

 In a building we were in near the falls house sparrows were nesting everywhere in the building, in big letters, on the wall, on a wall covered in vines, etc... Outside the building there were a lot of gulls. We saw a lot of Double-crested Cormorants flying around the falls.  We went behind the falls too.

A House Sparrow nest

House Sparrow eating

The falls

The US falls

Cormorant rock

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Bird Kingdom

I had almost no idea what any of the birds were because they
were all tropical and I never had time to read the signs that said

what they were because I was taking pictures. I later 
identified most of them from their website though.
 Bird Kingdom was very fun and interesting.

'Lola' the albino Burmese Python

  

                                     A thing about Passenger Pigeons

The Laughing Kookaburra 

Red-footed Tortoise

 We got the Kookaburra to 'laugh', it is VERY loud.

The Kookaburra

Bearded Dragon

A waving Blue and Gold Macaw

Alexandrine Parakeet.

An African-gray Parrot and Yellow-headed Amazon

Tokay Gecko

Alexandrine Parakeet
This parakeet was very funny because he copied almost everything
you said. I said 'hi' and he said 'hello' back. We whistled and he copied us.

Argentine Black & White Tegu

Green Iguana

The waving Macaw

Green-winged Macaw

Alexandrine Parakeet

Green Iguana

Red-winged Laughingthrush

Female Mandarin Duck

Ringed Teal

White-throated Laughingthrush

Superb Starling 

Silver Pheasent

Nicobar Pigeon

Royal Starling, these always reminded me of colorful
grackles. 

White-throated Laughingthrush

Giant Wood Rail

White-throated Laughingthrush

Java Sparrow

Emerald Starling

Pied Imperial Starling

Red-capped Cardinal

juvenile Scarlet Ibis

Red-crested Turaco

Victoria Crowned Pigeon

Pied Imperial Starling

Silver Pheasent

Silvery-cheeked Hornbill

Waterfall

Red-crested Turaco

Juvenile Scarlet Ibis

Scarlet Ibis with baby ibis

Nicobar Pigeon

Scarlet Ibis with baby

Scarlet Ibis

 The Nocturnal section was very interesting, I loved the bats. Unfortunately I wasn't allowed a flash so I turned the ISO up.

Egyptian Fruit Bat

Egyptian Fruit Bats

Boobook Owl

Indian Flying Foxes (they are bats)

White-cheeked Bulbul

Zebra Finch taking a bath

Zebra Finch

Collared Finchbill

I can't figure out what this is

Bare-eyed Cockatoo, also known as the Little Corella
This one is called 'Baby'. He was quite talkative, he said things like
'I'm Baby', 'Hello' 'Bye' 'Peanuts' and other stuff.

Zebra Dove

Gouldian Finch

Laughing Kookaburra

Green-winged Macaw