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Seventeen Bird Species by the Lake: January 2022

On a chilly and windy morning, I briefly visited several location along the Lake Ontario lakeshore and found these birds.

#1

American Goldfinch

#2

Canada Geese
Canada Goose
Canada Geese

#3

Bufflehead (male)
Bufflehead (male)

#4

Mute Swan
Mute Swan
Mute Swan
Mute Swans

#5

Red-breasted Merganser (male)
Red-breasted Merganser (male)
Red-breasted Merganser (male)
Red-breasted Mergansers
Red-breasted Mergansers

#6

Greater Scaup

#7

Mallards
Mallards
Mallards

#8

Ring-billed Gull

#9

Rock Pigeons

#10

European Starling

#11

Dark-eyed Junco (male)

#12

Long-tailed Duck (female)
Long-tailed Ducks
Long-tailed Ducks
Long-tailed Duck (female)

#13

Trumpeter Swans
Trumpeter Swans
Trumpeter Swan
Trumpeter Swan
Trumpeter Swan

#14

American Coot
American Coots
American Coot

#15

Gadwall (male)

#16

Common Goldeneye (male)

#17

Lesser Scaups (female)
Lesser Scaup (female)

NATURE POETRY

Good King Wenceslas looked out,
On the feast of Stephen,
When the snow lay round about
Deep and crisp and even.                     – John Mason Neale (1818–66)

Miles Hearn

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