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Chuck Rumsey
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Birding | Photography | Living along the Pacific Flyway in Vancouver Canada.
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Trumpeter Swan. Harrison Mills, BC, November 2025.

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A Trumpeter Swan’s white feathers stand out against the black water on which it sits, with water droplets streaming from its head and black beak.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I can’t be sure what’s being communicated between this #Mr&Mrs Hooded Merganser couple, but there is something familiar about the contrite look on the male. Delta BC, November 2025.

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A male/female pair of hooded mergansers move through autumnal coloured water. The female’s beak is spread wide as she communicates with her partner, the male’s head is turned in profile to look at her, displaying his beautiful black and white hood, and gleaming yellow eye.
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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An evening dance between a Northern Harrier and Short-eared Owl, captured in #silhouette for the #birdoftheday. Richmond BC, November 2025.

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A Northern Harrier and Short-eared Owl are captured, wings spread and talons bared, fighting in silhouette against a cloudy golden sunset sky.
November 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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A Short-eared Owl flirts with the setting sun as it hunts the Fraser River Delta. Richmond BC, November 2025.

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The spread wings of a Short-eared Owl are backlit by the sun as it glides over the brown marsh grass, its yellow eyes glowing with alertness.
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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This probably wasn’t the intent of the #birdoftheday challenge, but I snapped this Bald Eagle landing on some interesting #round infrastructure last evening in Richmond BC. November 2025.

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A Bald Eagle, silhouetted against an orange sky lands on a circular wooden structure.
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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A Toucan Barbet engages in a #staredown for the #birdoftheday. Val del Cauca, Colombia, April 2025.

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The bright red eye, framed by a jet black mask of a Toucan Barbet stares into the camera as it shows off its grey throat and bright red chest.
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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November brings rain and darkness to this part of the world, but it also brings back the Short-eared Owl. I’ll take that trade any day. Richmond BC, November 2025.

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A Short-eared Owl, with its yellow eyes and round face pointed intently forward, spreads its wings as it glides a few feet off the brown grasses of a tidal flat.
November 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Great Blue Herons on the Fraser River delta spend a lot of time perching on the decaying wooden pylons that dot the tidal areas, making them an easy subject for today’s #birdoftheday subject #posts.

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In this black and white image a Great Blue Heron is in the foreground, in focus on a high post in a tidal March, with other posts and herons visible in the out of focus background.
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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A Mallard comes into land on the Fraser River delta allowing it to join the other #ducksoutofwater for #birdoftheday. Richmond BC, November 2025.
A female Mallard, facing a low sun, sets its wings and drops its orange feet as it comes into landing on the brown marsh grass.
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Happy #Wrensday wishes from this vocal Marsh Wren in Delta BC. October 2025.

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A Marsh Wren perches in a bush and opens its beak wide to project its call.
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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A Black Oystercatcher lives up to its name as it explores today’s #birdoftheday theme, #ontheground. Comox BC, December 2024.

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A Black Oystercatcher walks among the smooth beach rocks of the surf line with an oyster shell held firmly in its bright orange beak.
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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With its very, very narrow subtropical Andean range, I’m not surprised to have only one capture of a Cinnamon Flycatcher. Valle del Cauca Colombia, April 2025. #birdoftheday #least.

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A Cinnamon Flycatcher perches and poses its orange cinnamon plumage on display against a soft green background.
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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This Northern Harrier tries to slide a ”hovering” shot into the #birdoftheday “takeoff” theme. Richmond BC, November 2025.

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A Northern Harrier hovers over tidal grasslands with its wings extended in “V” over its head, tail feathers spread, and talons dangling, all with the low evening light setting behind it.
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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A Northern Harrier tangles with a Short-eared Owl over the tidal flats of the Fraser Delta. November 2025.

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A Short-eared Owl spreads its wings as it tries to pull up and away from a Northern Harrier whose talons grasp desperately at the owl’s tail feathers.
November 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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This Yellow-rumped Warbler pops up for a quick lunch in Richmond BC. October 2025.

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A Yellow-rumped Warbler, wings and tail feathers wide spread, opens its beak mid-air to snatch a flying insect.
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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This Raven was all too eager to pose for a closeup and the #birdoftheday. Prince Rupert BC, October 2025.

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A raven poses for the camera, its enormous hooked, black beak smudged with dirt, and fine feathers swooping and scaled down its silvery black body.
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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This Great Blue Heron stretches skyward in a hopeful attempt to qualify its long beak for the alt #birdoftheday.

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A Great Blue Heron perches on a wooden pylon, facing away from the camera and stretches its neck skyward opening its long beak such that we can almost have look inside, from behind.
November 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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A “grey ghost” Northern Harrier perches in the rain, overlooking the Fraser River delta in Richmond BC. November 2025.

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A pale, adult male Northern Harrier perches on a rain soaked stump among the brown sedges and grass of a tidal flat.
November 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The sun peeks through the thick canopy to put a quick spotlight on my #birdoftheday, a Keel-billed Toucan looking straight back at the camera. Selva Minca Colombia, April 2025.

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A keel-billed Toucan peers through the trees with its bright eye sunlit, and its long riotous coloured beak showing off a jagged scar.
October 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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A Northern Harrier glides by showing off for the #birdoftheday theme. Delta BC, October 2025.

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A Northern Harrier spreads its wings, with wing-tips flared, as it flies across a dark forest background.
October 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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This House Finch and #BirdoftheDay is clearly thinking “is there a crumb on my beak? You’d tell me, right?” Richmond BC, October 2025.

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A House Finches shows off its deep red/purple breast as it perches on a log and the rain comes down on the pool of water in the background.
October 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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When the #birdoftheday is ‘raptors’ my go to is always going to be the Northern Harrier, including this evening hunter moving across the marshlands of Richmond BC. October 2025.

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A Northern Harrier flies low over grassland, tilting with wings and tail feathers spread, and backlit by the low light of a setting sun.
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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A Glistening-green Tanager seemed an appropriate subject for the #birdoftheday theme today. Valle del Cauca, Colombia, April 2025.

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A Glistening-green tanager shines deep green in profile as it perches on a small branch.
October 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Had to reach back to spring to join the #birdoftheday with this singing Redwing Blackbird. Richmond BC, March 2025.

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A Redwing Blackbird holds on to a pussy willow as it flairs its bright red shoulders and opens its beak wide in song.
October 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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A couple of characters (Caspian Terns) loitering on the beach in Delta BC. April 2025.

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Two Caspian Terns walk along the beach, with the one in the rear, opening its bright orange beak wide as it admonishes its partner in front.
October 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM