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 Migrating birds were piling up in the yard with 11 species of warblers and a total of 35 species for the day. There were 5 Nashville warblers in our little water feature, managed to get this image of four of them. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, Sept 29, 2024. Leiothlypis ruficapilla Nashville Warblers have been known to use porcupine quills as nest material.

 Looks displeased with the water, perhaps the temperature is wrong or it's just in a bad mood. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, Sept 26, 2024. Quiscalus quiscula Common Grackles are resourceful foragers. They sometimes follow plows to catch invertebrates and mice, wade into water to catch small fish, pick leeches off the legs of turtles, steal worms from American Robins, raid nests, and kill and eat adult birds.

When one of the kittens sits in your lap the other will get jealous and plop right on top of the other. Neither seems to care and they just stay there. Nellie and Mickey, Sept 24, 2024.

 The spring and fall plumage is entirely different on this bird. I am red/green spectrum impaired ( fancy for colour blind) and I thought people were messing with me when I started birding and they were telling me both are male tanager. May 10, 2014, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, canada. September 21, 2024, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. Piranga olivacea In fall, males trade red feathers for yellow-green and the birds take off for northern South America. Male Scarlet Tanagers are among the most blindingly gorgeous birds in an eastern forest in summer, with blood-red bodies set off by jet-black wings and tail

  This handsome little bird is a house wren, it is having an enthusiastic bath on our spall water feature. Rondeau Provincial Park. Ontario, Canada, September 20, 2024. Troglodytes aedon A House Wren weighs about as much as two quarters, but it’s a fierce competitor for nest holes. Wrens will harass and peck at much larger birds, sometimes dragging eggs and young out of a nest site they want – even occasionally killing adult birds. In some areas they are the main source of nest failure for bluebirds, Tree Swallows, Prothonotary Warblers, and chickadees.

  At friend Davids stream, September 16, 2024, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada. A beautiful little migrant. Setophaga americana.. Before this species received the name Northern Parula (a diminutive form of  parus , meaning little titmouse), Mark Catesby, an English naturalist, called it a "finch creeper" and John James Audubon and Alexander Wilson called it a "blue yellow-backed warbler."

Great blue heron, seen from the pontoon boat, missed the catchopf this rather large fish. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, September  10, 2024. Ardea herodias Great Blue Herons in the northeastern U.S. and southern Canada have benefited from the recovery of beaver populations, which have created a patchwork of swamps and meadows well-suited to foraging and nesting.

  Warblers are slowly moving through the yard, most stop for a quick bath. Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, September 3, 2024. Cardellina canadensis Canada Warblers fly more than 3,000 miles from their wintering grounds in South America to their breeding grounds in the United States and Canada.