There is a really pretty pond just down the road from my house and I can always seem to find wildlife there. It’s super convenient and such a goldmine. It’s kind of nice to know you don’t always need to travel a long way or go to a specific nature reserve to find some cool birds.
Almost every time I go to the Goose Pond there is a Great Blue Heron there and the past few times my partner and I have gone to bird watch, he’s been hunting. I‘m not always the best at capturing special moments but I did get a shot of him catching his breakfast.
The Herons are always beautiful but this morning had an even better treat in store for me, a female Belted Kingfisher was sitting in the trees! She sat perfectly still and posed for photos for quite some time. Kingfishers are one of my favorite birds and I haven’t had many opportunities to get some closeup photos like this. She is stunning!
The lovely girl even caught her own breakfast after her Blue Heron friend and let me snap a quick photo before she flew off. To round off the morning I snapped a few photos of some young Robins and a beautiful Cedar Waxwing. There were no new species for me today but any day I can find some birds I call a success !
