WOW! I saw a wolf the other evening a few minutes from our home. It was getting dark (5:45pm) maybe too dark to take a picture but I tried anyway. I heard the shutter trip but it sounded slow, too slow for a clearly focused picture. To my surprise when I looked at the LCD screen the blurred picture turned out to be quite amazing in fact. I couldn't create that effect if I planned to.
Thanks God!

Here are a few pictures I took this past week.
These eagles were only two of the thirty or so that I saw. Where you ask... that's a secret.

Birds are sometimes a challenge to photograph. Here are a few pictures I took this week.
Sharp-shinned Hawk, Great Blue Heron, Female Mallard, Adult Cormorant with young, Red-tailed Hawk

I watched this osprey fly around for a few minutes than he spotted something. Amazing... what a dive and a few seconds later he came out with a large cat fish. Wow!

This is one of this year's foxes. He was so cute. There were two of them but the other hiding from the camera.

I was maybe 50 feet from this fella. He was more concerned with the blueberry patch he was standing in than me.

Providence Bay.

A Northern Harrier is fairly hard to get a picture of unless you are in a blind. They, like kingfishers and many other species are easily spooked. Thankfully this one stayed sitting for a second on the bale of hay while I took a quick picture.

I stopped by an area where I had seen a family of loons a few days earlier and they were there again. This time the dad had caught a small fish and gave it to the little one to eat but not before he passed it by mama for final inspection.

Have you ever felt like you were being watched? This buck stood so quiet I walked right by him but I felt as though something was watching me. When I looked around I didn't see him at first as he blended in with the trees and was standing in a shaded area.

This little guy was hitching a ride on mama's back. It is awesome to see a pair of loons with their young. If you are privileged to view this in the wild please give them a lot of room. Loons are very susceptible to human disturbances as are their nests.

These two terns were fish'in in the rain. It was amazing to watch them dive from high up into the water. Thankfully fish provide a lot of protien as these two birds were burning the energy as they flew non-stop for the half hour I watched them.

Coming back from Little Current this eagle was soaring along a section of the highway. I watched him for several minutes and he had not flapped his wings once. Amazing!

While driving down one of the back roads we spotted this bobcat. He was quite far from us. He walked into the bush and came out on the nearby rail bed so I followed quietly behind. The resulting picture is not the best as he was quite far and it was getting dark but I was just happy to have seen him.
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There were three young skunks with their mother. This little one wasn't shy and stuck around for a picture. They are even cutter than in the picture.

Chestnut-sided Warbler

Killdeer - Elliot Lake

Foxy Moxy...

Bababababaahhh Bear!

Osprey - Manitoulin Island