As most of you may know from a previous post, I went to Rushing Wind Fishing Resort for a fly-in fishing trip. Rushing Wind is located on Populous Lake near Kenora. Anyway, we got up at 5:30am on Friday, May the 22nd, and started the 3+ hour drive to Nestor Falls. On the way was the first highlight that got me going: a Sandhill Crane, in a ditch near some marshy wooded field, next to a lake. Over the trip I saw many different species of birds. On the lake in the evening, the loons would call, and the hermit and swainson's thrushes would sing. It was haunting and beautiful. We fished almost all day, everyday, except for a few work projects that involved portaging and hiking (of course fishing and birding in there as well.) Anyway here are a few of the best pictures.
Fun Fact: Over the trip I took a total of 753 photos! Don't worry, I still fished... a lot! :-)
Sorry that I missed so many FoFs and W.W.B.W.s.
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| Sunrise Monday Morning |
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| Common Raven |
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| The plane we flew on. |
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| Least Flycatcher |
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| Chestnut-Sided Warbler |
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| Eastern Wood-Pewee |
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| An interesting bird that flew by and dropped off some pontoons! |
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| Puffed up Loon |
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| Common Loon |
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| Red-Eye |
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| Turkey Vulture |
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| First Bald Eagle |
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| Flying together |
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| A group of lazy vultures. |
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| Waiting for food to come. (They have a rock on which they place fish that are too small to fillet, the cultures and eagles wait for the scraps. After every meal, right on time, the sky slowly fills up) |
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| The multiple terns at 'tern rock' |
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| Ruby-Throated Hummingbird |
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| Bald Eagle |
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| Alder Flycatcher |
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| Caspian Tern |
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| Bald Eagle |
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| As I said, the sky fills up with turkey vultures. |
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| Common Loon |
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| I love loons, they are a highlight of the trip. |
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| Common Mergansers |
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| Common Loon |
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| Common Loon |
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| Checking for Fish |
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| What an amazing wingspan! |
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| Red-Winged Blackbird |
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| Ruby-Throated Hummingbird |
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| Having a drink. |
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| Western Painted Turtle (Someone caught a Snapping Turtle off the dock where we moor the boats.) |
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| Gray Jay |
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| Eye out for fish, I watched and eventually he/she dived and caught a Pike! |
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| The scrap rock. |
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| Incoming! |
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| Eating the scraps. (The Eagle kicked out the other vultures, there was about nine before. Only the brave get to stay.) |
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| Ruby-Throated Hummingbird |
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| Blurry photo of Caspian and Common Terns. (It is blurry for the lack of light makes the shutter take longer to close as it needs enough light, resulting in a blurry photo.) |
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| What massive wings! |
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| Sitting high. |
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| Red-Breasted Nuthatch |
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| Blue Jay |
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| American Robin |
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| The Male and Female |
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| Chipmunk at the old mine. |
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| The old Gold mine nearby. |
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| The abandoned shafts. |
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| Picturesque lake |
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| Herring Gull |
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| Loon pair |
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| Beautiful scenery |
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| Beautiful sunset over the glassy lake |
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| Silhouette of trees at sunset |
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| Flying low |
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| View from the plane on the way back, water and trees. |
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| An interesting shot of a COLO, almost makes it look like a YBLO! |
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| Me co-piloting the aircraft to the lake. |
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