A beautiful day for a walk in the park. |
Sunday November 24, 2013. Swan Lake Village area, Markham, Ontario |
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Some interesting pictures of Swan Lake Park over the last few weeks. |
Swan Lake Park - Nov 8th |
Ring-billed Gull |
Ring-billed Gull |
This is the picture as I shot it on a cloudy day. It's in full color but you would never know it. The angle and the light turned it into a very interesting black and white view of the gull. |
Swan Lake Park - Nov 13 |
Common Merganser |
This male Merganser is flying off with it's lunch hanging from it's mouth. A gull was harrasing it in the hopes that it could get a free lunch by making the Merganser drop the fish. |
Common Merganser |
Another view of the Ring-billed Gull harrassing the Common Merganser. |
Swan Lake Park - Nov 20 |
Common Merganser |
The Common Mergansers on the lake would swim and fly off if I came within 100 yards of them. This made it very difficult to get any good shots of them but I did manage to get a few interesting long range shots like the last few. This is a shot of the male Common Merganser swimming in the middle of the lake. |
Canada Geese |
Swan Lake Park - Nov 23 |
Common Merganser |
As I approached the shore near the pier these two Common Mergansers immediately swam away and then took off in flight. The red head is a female and the one on the right is a male distinguished by the very dark green head. |
Common Merganser |
Another shot of the male Common Merganser taking off. |
Swan Lake Village Nov 23rd, |
Winter arrives |
Swan Lake Park - Nov 24th |
Canada Geese |
The lake was covered with Canada Geese and ice today. About 1/3 of the lake was covered with ice and there must of been more than 2,000 geese on the lake. |
Something unusual |
As far as I can determine this is a half breed Canada Goose. One of the parents would have been a white domestic goose with an orange bill, legs and feet while the other parent was a Canada Goose with a black bill, legs and feet. |