Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Winter wind down

17-18 March 2007

While many people on this side of the pond celebrated the St-Patrick's day weekend (heaven knows why, most of those who call themselves Irish were born here, how can Canada establish its own people when most add the nationality of a distant relative to their origin, Irish Canadian indeed!) we ignored it and went birding. Saturday was a bit of a trial with snow all day, Sunday was brighter so we went back to Chemin Scotch and the surrounding area to try to see some male Red Crossbills.

Eventually we were successful although they really did not want their photo taking but a nice male White-winged Crossbill posed and a White-tailed Deer paused as it cross the track

The month appears to be warming up considerably and so the fields of St-Clet will be alive with wildfowl as flood pools form for a few days. The year list is stalled on 102 at the moment but I predict a sudden surge so.

Just a couple of average snaps, not a great month for photography so far.




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