Beautiful shots!

For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Reflections, a GBH fishing in Big Creek Marsh, Long Point. I'm late with this, but Happy Christmas all, and here's to hope for a kinder, loving New Year!

@karenbdc.bsky.social you'll want to pay particular attention to bird of the day today as the theme is reflections :)

Stunning shot! Great photo.

Thanks to the @refocus.awards judges for naming my photo Bronze winner in the Refocus Awards World Photo Annual Still Life (non pro) category. #photography #nikonphotography #stilllife #streetphotography

Throwback (60+ years) Thursday to when I was at the apex of my hockey career; I burned out by the age of 4.... I note that hockey helmets and gloves have changed a bit over the past several decades.

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14 young women who would have changed the world, were changing the world for the better, but were tragically murdered on this day, 1989. I take a moment to read each name aloud, to remember. Let love win, not hate. End violence against girls and women. #whiterose #endviolenceagainstgirlsandwomen

I avoid entering contests, but a couple of non wildlife shots I particularly love I thought, ah, go for it. Made it to the nominated level, which allows people to vote for their favourites. So your vote is the only thing between me and fame and fortune LOL Please: refocus-awards.com/people-vote-...

I avoid entering contests, but a couple of non wildlife shots I particularly love I thought, ah, go for it. Made it to the nominated level, which allows people to vote for their favourites. So your vote is the only thing between me and fame and fortune LOL Please: refocus-awards.com/people-vote-...

#birdoftheday is #BerriesandBeaks. Here's a Swainson's Thrush, juvenile Cedar Waxwing and Robin Redbreast (N.A. Robin) kindly meeting the theme 😀 #bird #birds #birdphotography #canadianwildlife #nikonphotography

#birdoftheday is #warbler. Here to comply -- a Magnolia Warbler and Cape May Warbler; both males. Both shots taken in the Wet Woods at the base of the Leslie St. Spit in Toronto. #bird #birds #birdphotography #canadianwildlife #nikonphotography

Yellow-headed Blackbird. A marsh east of Edmonton; the only time I've seen them in considerable number. 2020 #bird #birds #blackbird #birdphotography #canadianwildlife #nikonphotography

Hopefully NATO sees that middle finger as the barrel of a howitzer, and we get off our asses and repel Putin.

How will these trials work around pardons and SCOTUS rulings in favour of tyranny?

LMAO 😂 Okay, so the proposed solution here is an farcical, fantasy scenario (his resigning prompted by a meme going viral) which would put a truly broken sociopath (likely psychopath) VP into the POTUS seat? (Actually) Rise Up America! Hurry the f' up, ffs.

In a shocking turn of events, Paul Leonard-Morgan and I wrote an album together. Here's a wee teaser, we'll be launching it at St Luke's in January. Another dream coming true. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙 youtube.com/shorts/Cmkv4...

A Common Snapping Turtle. Big Creek Marsh (Long Point). #turtle #snappingturtle #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Canadianwildlife

Well that was easy, a promise or two by a couple of elected members of parliament and voila, the environment is saved....

Elvis has not left the building, least not a building in Toronto's Kensington Market; and MJ is there with him. Clearly, neither of them do windows. #streetphotography #toronto #nikonphotography #torontostreets

If only we could monetize this somehow, get the Cap Equity Bruhs interested, the world might take note. Perhaps we run a pool on the actual date this occurs, or maybe a bet on whether the oceans will collapse first or the Gulf Stream #dyingplanet #environmentalarmageddon #apologiestoGaia

Classic Chinese resting pose, the squat, here in life and mural art. Chose TO's Chinatown for street photography yesterday. The neighbourhood beautifully continues to mostly resist development keeping its truly engaging charm. #streetphotography #chinatown #torontostreets #nikonphotography #toronto

As yes, a wrathful Old Testament god crushed evil by painting scathing statements on desert tent flaps. Pretty sure, likewise, witty graffiti brought down the Axis Powers in WWII, saving the world from tyranny. So spray paint not guns is it? Rise Up America! Hurry the f' up, ffs!

Definitely it's Hawks who stare down my lens. Couple of shots for #birdoftheday 's them #staredown. Cooper's Hawk and Red-tailed Hawk. Both shot in Toronto locations. #birds #bird #hawk #birdphotography #nikonphotography #canadianwildlife

Like I say, lots of Mallards appear in my viewfinder. Here are four more for a second post for #mallardmonday. #bird #birds #duck #birdphotography #canadianwildlife #nikonphotography

Happy #mallardmonday. From various locations (ON to AB) over a few years. Common in Canadian wetlands but not any less beautiful for their frequent appearance in my lens. #bird #birds #duck #birdphotography #nikonphotography #canadianwildlife

I guess beer pong sets represent the tipping point. Rape of women and girls, murder, deportation, zip tied children.... But putting the sacred POTUS seal on a drinking game -- bring out the guns! Rise Up America! Hurry the f' up!

So the American people get accommodated or not accommodated with it, just what exactly is the plan of ACTION to do something in opposition. Of course scum like Bannon are bragging about it -- they've got all the evidence they need that CunTrump et can do whatever... Rise Up America. Hurry the f' up!

#birdoftheday also includes birds on a #post. A GBH on a post in one of the marsh ponds #Toronto 's Leslie St. Spit, 2023. #bird #birds #heron #greatblueheron #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #nikonphotography

#birdoftheday is #swans A couple of Trumpeter Swan cygnets. Lake Ontario, 2024. There were a couple of families moving together; six or seven cygnets; too long lens to get anything but closeups -- not the usual 'problem' photoing birds :) #birds #bird #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #toronto

a crossing guard being killed by a driver the day before we yank speed cameras out of school zones is super on the nose

Happy #ThursJay featuring one of my favourite birds, the Black-billed Magpie, Canada's only type of magpie. Edmonton, 2019-ish. #birds #corvids #magpie #Canadianwildlife #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #Corvidlove #Alberta

Black-crowned Night Heron shot through the reeds. Toronto Brick Works, 2023. #heron #bird #birds #birdphotography #willdlifephotography #nikonphotography

I love this.

Good morning, the #BirdOfTheDay theme today is paddling birds standing or walking in shallow water. Here a North American Coot shows off her ever so odd made for walking on land as well as paddling in the water feet. Lois Hole Park, Alberta 2020. #Coot #bird #birds #birdphotography #nikonphotography

Remembrance Day, 2025 Toronto #remembranceday #November11 #LestWeForget #gratitude

Remembrance Day, 2025 Toronto #remembranceday #November11 #LestWeForget #gratitude

Remembrance Day, 2025 Toronto #remembranceday #November11 #LestWeForget #gratitude

Remembrance Day, 2025 Toronto #remembranceday #November11 #LestWeForget #gratitude

Remembrance Day, 2025 Toronto #remembranceday #November11 #LestWeForget #gratitude

Capitalism works just fine; its objectives and values are supreme over all others. What doesn't work, at all -- re having a civil, just and kind, healthy shared society -- is Capitalism as the working model of governance that it now most assuredly has become. Fuck Capitalism.

My favourite shot of my visit to The Royal, yesterday. I love photos that tell a story; and I shoot far too few of them. For the record, the goats, horses and cattle I saw were far (far!) better groomed than was (am?) I 😂 Been too long; forgot how much I love ag fairs. #royalwinterfair

Why the long face? #horse #royalwinterfair #nikonphotography

For @karenbdc.bsky.social A fellow lover of goats. Goats are the GOAT. Royal Winter Fair, Toronto. Playing with my new Nikon Zf camera yesterday, so was sought out some gorgeous models. #goats #royalwinterfair #nikonphotography

Her answer is spectacular, but I would have still gone with, "If I thought you were physiologically able to do so, I'd tell you, Harry, to go fuck yourself."

Worth repeating for a 'Happy Friday!'