The Rock Pigeon is a bird so common and widespread as to be overlooked, even ignored. I found this individual uncommonly, strikingly attractive.
Category: Birds
Riding the wind
Soaring
I stepped outside to see one, three, seven, eleven Turkey vultures soaring on an unfavourable wind, trying to gain an advantage during their migration. Two turn downwind, I suppose preparing to get a head of steam up to attack the wind.
Look up
I arrived home this afternoon ready to go inside. I stepped out of the car, took a moment to look up, and saw quite a few Turkey vultures were soaring directly overhead. After scrambling to get my camera out of the car I was fortunate to capture two of these remarkably graceful animals.
Playing
Turkey vultures on the move, playing the wind.
Dove
A Mourning Dove masintains a watchful eye on me
On the move
Migratory birds are on the move here. Robins are no linger tut-tutting, killdeer are scarce, have not seen or heard orioles and grosbeaks for a while.
On a recent grey and gloomy day, during an outing that took me to the north shore of Lake Erie, I saw this group of Turkey vultures on the move, headed west along the lake shore to the nearest way around the lake instead of over it. Such graceful birds.
Glides
A Canada goose glides through still waters.
Siesta
A flock of ducks takes a siesta on a spectacular early September morning.
Not so much
Graceful in flight, not so much on the ground. Nevertheless, important and welcome fellow inhabitants.
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