While walking about a rainy Quebec marsh photographing wildflowers, I came across a large bird perched on a post some distance away.
This is a species which I have never had much luck photographing before.
As you can see, they have always been high in the sky.
This bird clearly has facial disks but is not an owl.
When it flew, it showed a white rump.
The bird is a female Northern Harrier. Males are pale gray.
Other birds:
Some botany:
MAILBOX
I did not know about their post-excavation strategy. 😊 👍🏻
NATURE POETRY
On the warm and perfumed dark
glows the firefly’s tender spark. – Horatio Nelson Powers (1826–90)
Miles Hearn