I decided to make a trip to Lake Traverse in Algonquin Park to see if I could find a few Red Crossbills and hopefully a Leconte’s Sparrow. The weather had other plans for us though, a steady rain hampered us all morning.
We stopped at the Barron River Canyon on the way out and took a number of HDR images.
Below are some of the better ones of the views from the canyon processed using Photomatix Pro 4.2.
Ciao for now
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Sparrows, little brown jobs. Some easy, some tough. Like them or not they take up numerous pages in our bird guides. Over the last ten years I have managed to photograph 31 of the 35 species of Sparrow.
Some like the Eurasian Tree Sparrow can only be found in St. Louis, Missouri and others across North America.
Some respond to pishing and others stay buried in the grasses, occasionally showing themselves. Getting a photo is pure luck for many of these birds.
The four species I still need are all found in the Texas, New Mexico and Arizona area. Cassin’s Sparrow, Botteri’s Sparrow, Brewer’s Sparrow and Baird’s Sparrow (also found in western Canada in summer).
Ciao for now….
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