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Sunday Showcase: Baby Birds, Summer Adults

Photos taken by Tony LePrieur on the weekend of June 26, 2016, at Fish Creek park and Bridlewood Wetlands in Calgary, at Frank lake, and in the Priddis area. There are lots of juvenile birds being fed out there right now!

Male Red-winged Blackbird feeding juvenile.

American Coot babies.

Yellow-headed Blackbird feeding juvenile.

Cedar Waxwing.

Gray Catbird.

Willet in an unusual spot.

Eastern Phoebe.

Mallard with ducklings.

Hungry Juvenile Red-winged Blackbird.

Adult Black Terns.

Female Mountain Bluebird with nesting material – raising a second brood?

Male Mountain Bluebird.

Sunday Showcase: Birds of Late Spring

Here are some photos taken by Tony LePrieur in the Calgary region in mid-June. Many young birds have now fledged. The photos were taken in Fish Creek Park and at Frank lake.

American Avocet.

American Avocets with chick.

American Avocet.

American Avocet chick.

Great Horned Owl (juvenile).

White-faced Ibis.

Swainson’s Hawk with Meadow Vole.

Eastern Kingbird.

Western Kingbird.

Clay-colored Sparrow.

House Wren.

Least Flycatcher.

Cedar Waxwing.

Warbling Vireo.

American Coot with chick.

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