Mild Winter Birding Adventures!



Up close and personal with a Cooper's Hawk!



Newfound friends! The Wood Duck ...always so beautiful to see up close!


Female Common Merganser


Common Mergansers ♂ and♀


Female Common Goldeneye


Not the greatest picture but we got a quick glimpse of a mink today!


A little too far away for a crisp photo but always a neat sighting!


A female Long-tailed Duck. A first for us!!



Mild winter temperatures has allowed for this Ruby-Crowned Kinglet to be spotted today!


Although Winter lacks colour, there are still so many beautiful natural sightings to appreciate!


(98% sure) Marsh Mallow seed pods 


Dinner plate size fungus!


Bittersweet! One of my favourite finds!


Cattails


Wild Teasel


An "Osage Orange" aka "Maclura Pomifera". Size of a grapefruit! Pretty heavy and firm. Fruit from a bodark tree (in the Mulberry family) Really unusual!!! 



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