Yesterday I drove 4.5 hours west of home to the town of Bracebridge, where this bird has been coming to a house feeder.
What its doing there no one knows. Very hard bird unless Texas is home...
This bird is usually found in Texas in the winter and high Arctic in the summer...I had been chasing this species for a few years now, never thinking I'd get one so close to home.
595..so close to 600 I can taste it...104 to go
I was in someone's laneway, no other angle possible and he always flew from deep in the trees to the feeder..so this was it for now.
All my "Golden Quest" images framed and written like this...:)
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handheld from car
Congrats to you. Loved the sharpness, pose and HA. A little more room behind the bird would have been nice to have. At times, one can't do much about the BG.
Congrats on adding one to your list. It is always an odd thing when a rarity pops up for unknown reasons, but exciting.
Last spring we had a yellow headed black bird locally, and they are so rare here, that all the bird folks and photographers got pretty excited. Sibley shows them in much of Michigan, but all the local records show that they are very rare.
I wonder if the owner of the feeder would allow you to put up a perch near the feeder? If he is a serious birder, probably not!
Here in my home province, you guessed it, photographers on the low end of the totem pole. Over a 2 hundred people have been to see this bird from all over the province, I'll get my chance at this bird somewhere under better conditions.
Rare birds are happening all over..must be the screwy weather.
Kaustubh..I didn't notice how close the tail was to the edge...TY
Thanks for comments
Another Bird for the List..
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