This little guy was the first one to come out of the culvert where a group of six young foxes were living. You can see the ears of a second one about to join him.
Tags: Artic Fox Pribilof Youngs Young Artic Foxes Young artic fox Pribilof Artic fox
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Tags: Swans Waiting for Santa White Christmas Series Wild and Free Bokeh Depth of Field Snowy Pond Winter scene white swans Noel Joyeux Noel Feliz Navidad Merry Christmas
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There is something a bit comical and comforting at the same time in this image. I got it earlier this year when Jody Wells www.flickr.com/photos/134270033@N06 discovered this Northern Shrike at the Saanichton Spit. This image is not meant to be a "Northern Shrike" image, it is an image about nature and resilience of our wildlife. Look at the size of this bird in relation to its environment.... things are falling apart but birds strive and it is comforting to know this, however we need to continue to care. I have a bluebird picture perched in a similar fashion that I will share on another HFF. Hope you all have a great weekend with great photo opportunities.
Tags: Happy Fence Friday HFF Northern Shrike Bokeh Depth of Field Saanichton Spit Wildlife Resilience Birdscape habitat
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This is a rare opportunity to capture such a scene, not so much because of the crow, we have plenty of them, but because of the snow...something we rarely get here... so far +/- 15 inches which is a lot for here. First time I am doing photography while it is snowing... interesting challenge as the camera always wants to focus on the snow flakes.... I will need more practice and more snow to do so. Here, not so much a picture of a bird but more of a bird picture as my friend Graham would suggest.
Tags: Crow Snow Northwestern Crow birdscape Bokeh Depth of field Esquimalt Lagoon Wild and Free Full Frame Ebony and Ivory Unusual bird scene Winter Scene
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The Common Redpoll is a bird that would be a rarity at home and we only saw it twice during the trip to Barrow, Once at a house where the owner had several bird feeders and weird perches and once in an open field. I expected these birds to be much more common in Barrow during the Summer as they are breeding in the Artic Tundra.
Here is what the Cornell lab of Ornithology says about the cute little bird. "As energetic as their electric zapping call notes would suggest, Common Redpolls are active foragers that travel in busy flocks. Look for them feeding on catkins in birch trees or visiting feeders in winter. These small finches of the arctic tundra and boreal forest migrate erratically, and they occasionally show up in large numbers as far south as the central U.S. During such irruption years, redpolls often congregate at bird feeders (particularly thistle or nyjer seed), allowing delightfully close looks."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Redpoll/id
Tags: Common redpoll Redpoll Artic Tundra Bird Depth of Field Bokeh Wild and Free Wild Bird Artic Tundra Not so common after all
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