It was like a scene right out of Lucky Luke!

The first time I saw a Turkey Vulture a few years back I was just getting acquainted with how the wings of a bird of prey look. At first I used to confuse them with eagles as their wing span is similarly shaped, but you can always tell them apart because Turkey vultures have paler wings then their bodies. When I first looked it up, I realized that those birds did not used to come as far north as Southern Quebec & Ontario, but now they do. All maps that show their territory show them far more south. But each summer I see more. This time it was creepy. Two trees at a distance overlooking Charleston lake there was 13 - yes count them 13 Turkey vultures. It made me think of Lucky Luke.

There are 7 Turkey Vultures in this tree

There are 6 Turkey Vultures in this tree

2015 is not a year for camping or canoeing it seems?

Well this past week-end I did not canoe or camp.  My friend and I were supposed to go camping & canoeing 3 days, but then things changed.  Not a bad thing, I didn't even have much energy at all. Spent most of the week-end vegging in bed listening to music.

We did go picnic with our Lafleurs at the Pierrefonds Marina. We saw a mom woodpecker and it's yearling hanging out different trees.  We did see a pair of ducks as well. 

The one thing that I was happy to see was a couple with a toddler, put a canoe into the water there, and canoe off and it seemed to canoe ok. So this is another place to take the canoe for a quick ride.

Woodpeckers

Birds from Reserve faunique Portneuf

Birds in my yard - another catch

Common Grackle

More animals from the camping trip

Blue Jay

Great blue Heron

Unidentified ducks

Another unidentified pair of ducks

Yellow bellied Sapsucker

Some type of gull

Pair of Turkey Vultures

After the departure of the snow in Bois de Liesse

Great crested flycatcher?

The pink line is where I walk to and then back to work.

Moss nice and green despite snow just melted

Fiddleheads?!?

More birds from my yard....

Blue-Jay

Downy woodpecker female

Robin

Crow

Woodpecker flying away

Downy woodpecker male

Birds of my back yard

Cardinal

Pileated Woodpecker

Cardinal

Pileated Woodpecker

Pileated Woodpecker

Pileated Woodpecker

Dark-eyed Junco

Pair of dark-eyed Junco's

Good site for bird identification

Most of the birds I run into around the woods, or around my house can be found here.  It helped me figure out the difference between the black-capped Chickadee and the white-breasted nuthatch.

Misidentified

Last week when I put up photos of the birds in Bois de Liesse, I had originally thought that a white-breasted nuthatch was a black-capped chickadee.  I've put photos of them side by side, they are different. What is amusing is that after mislabelling that bird, the only birds I have run across since have been black-capped chickadees :)

Black-Capped Chickadee

White-breasted Nuthatch

Birds of Bois de Liesse

downy woodpecker

 

 downy woodpecker

Mallards

White-breasted Nuthatch

Pileated Woodpecker

Pileated Woodpecker