snakeman4 136 Posted January 3 Report Share Posted January 3 a few pics from my morning walk down the niagara parkway this morning. managed to find a field loaded with snow geese as well on my way home. Lots of goldeneye on the river right now. smerchly, kgm, Bubba14 and 2 others 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
smerchly 2,757 Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 Nice shots of the waterfowl ...never seen so many snow geese on land ! The River is a bird watchers paradise , a good place to spot the beautiful white egrets as well . Are those 3 birds mergansers ?Do you see many cormorants since there's plenty of bait fish ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tyler0420 862 Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 Nice pics snakeman Quote Link to post Share on other sites
basscrazy 23 Posted January 4 Report Share Posted January 4 (edited) Those three are mergansers, hard to tell from the photo but I believe those to be swans not snow geese. Cormorants are early migrators, and for the most part are gone. Although fishing the upper in the summer there were thousands. cheers Edited January 4 by basscrazy boogaloo and dave524 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
smerchly 2,757 Posted January 5 Report Share Posted January 5 9 hours ago, basscrazy said: I believe those to be swans not snow geese. Might be a mix of both by looking at the neck length . There are a few mallards hanging around Port Dal today .....some kind of duck convention going on .....what a racket !! knightfisher and Tyler0420 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubba14 190 Posted January 5 Report Share Posted January 5 And not a mask in sight... smerchly 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
smerchly 2,757 Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 On 1/5/2021 at 6:55 AM, Bubba14 said: And not a mask in sight... That's because they are dining and the masks can come off ..... Bubba14 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
genec 265 Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 Maybe they are discussing whether to fly south, or stay here for the winter and avoid all the Trump quacks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dave524 156 Posted January 6 Report Share Posted January 6 Nice pics, 50 plus years ago did that drive with my parents often and dad had a high power spotting scope. My favourite was watching the otters on Navy Island, no Comorants back then. Think those are all swans, snow geese are only slightly bigger than a mallard and swans are bigger than Canadas. smerchly 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
smerchly 2,757 Posted yesterday at 12:28 AM Report Share Posted yesterday at 12:28 AM Last shot a Gadwall ? That looks like the mounted duck my neighbour just showed me ! I believe it was mounted by our member Gunner !! . Nice mount !! Snakeman is very happy with the mount . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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