Raptor hunting in Ian Millar's Field!

Birds are migrating. I spotted a purple finch pair.

Frog pond has a skiff of ice on top.

Cold days in Lanark County still. Overnight, the frog pond refroze. The Voices of Spring have been silenced, as they dig deep down into the muddy bottom.

Usually there are deer feeding here,
or wild turkeys.

New birds, purple finch, have been at the feeder.

Today, on my way into my volunteering at PCCC, I saw a BIG bird. At first I thought it was the hawk. Can you see it?

On closer inspection of the photos, I think it is the owl! But maybe not! People with eagle's eyes have thought perhaps the red-tail hawk.

You'll remember we visited the sugar shack on the weekend.

Whilst there, we saw owl's ear tufts, she was sitting high atop her nest. She is very high up in the nest, quite safely methinks.

I stopped the car this day, turned around, and refitted my camera with the zoom lens.

After cropping, I realized there were some duds, but you can see that it isn't a hawk, osprey or falcon. It has a very thick neck!

These fields belong to Ian Millar, international horseman, famous for Big Ben.

What an amazing bird!
Tough to follow it, very fast creature.

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