Belted Kingfishers may be found throughout Ontario, wherever there are small fish to catch and sand banks to tunnel into for nesting purposes. Some even winter in our area if there is open water.

Last week I posted photos of 1000’s of Bank swallows here:

There were many in the sky this morning, but only this gull was resting:

Perhaps most of the Bank Swallows were at their colonies tending to the young.

Other birds:

Some botany:

Bluff scenes:

Today’s group:

MAILBOX

looking at memory in birdwatchers in Ontario: https://www.baycrest.org/Baycrest-Pages/News-Media/News/Baycrest/Birds-of-a-feather-flock-together

NATURE POETRY

Something bright in all,
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall.                  – Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94)

Miles Hearn