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!!!