Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: white eye ring

I spent this morning with friends at Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. Always enjoyable seeing an Osprey, a Bald Eagle and a Red-tailed Hawk. Also a Double-crested Cormorant flying low over the Bow River, a Solitary Sandpiper at the edge of the lagoon (seen above), a Red-breasted Merganser, and a few Wood Ducks (plus the usual, such as Canada Geese, Gulls, Mallards, Common Mergansers, Goldeneye, etc.) It has been a beautiful spring day today - just gorgeous!

Fully zoomed and seriously cropped, as this Townsend's Solitaire was on a spruce tree down on the hillside at North Glenmore Park the other morning. I rarely get any kind of shot of this species, so wanted to add this to my Birds of Alberta set. It's white eye-ring shows up in this photo. www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Townsends_Solitaire/id en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townsend's_Solitaire