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A backlit Grasshopper Sparrow just down the road from our cottage. It looks like he's feeding young!
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Also just down the road, this family of Osprey was seen each day flying over the lake and sitting on their nest.
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Pine Warbler seen along the roadside
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An Ovenbird seen on a forest walk
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Vesper Sparrow - a very nice surprise!
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Eastern Kingbird - they were EVERYWHERE!
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A young or female Bobolink
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A hoped-for bird for my Ontario list, a Cliff Swallow
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...and another new Ontario bird for me, a Bank Swallow
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A Piping Plover on nest. Volunteers had cordoned off the area and were keeping watch over the nesting pair. Two young had just been born that morning!
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The male of the pair worked his way down the beach towards me and I was able to get a better photo, despite the heavy fog.
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What a great surprise! On the same beach as the plovers, I heard the cry of a Willet. Out of the fog, this bird emerged and set down right near me!
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This Least Bittern was a fun and unexpected sighting!