Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Bohemian waxwing enjoying a juniper berry! They are back a bit early this year. We don't normally see them until February typically. #birds #ottawa #mudlake (This one is going on a greeting card 😎) 1445
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 26/10/2025Looks like this black-throated blue warbler didn't get the memo that it is time to start the migration - #birds #photography #nature #ottawa 1432
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 25/10/2025I spotted this Eastern Bluebird here in Ottawa. Apparently, it is native to the area, but I have rarely seen it - #birds #nature #birds #ottawa 0241
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Giant swallow-tailed butterfly at the Ornamental Gardens, Ottawa, Ontario - These characters are fueling up for the long journey south 😎 #nature #butterfly #wings #photography 0170
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 15/08/2025"Don't try to bite off more than you can swallow!" The crayfish did, in fact, get away from this juvenile cormorant 😎 #birds #birding #ottawa 0131
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 07/08/2025The avian Cerberus has arisen - These juvenile green herons were huddled together for warmth - #birds #birding #ottawa Or it could be Larry, Moe, and Curly 🙂 0212
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 12/07/2025This little guy looks like a muppet! 😎 Ottawa River just west of Ottawa. Eastern screech owl - Red morph #birds #birding #ottawa 0261
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 21/05/2025It is so nice seeing migratory birds among the apple blossoms! Baltimore Oriole, male #birds #birding #ottawa 2351
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 08/05/2025"I am the terror that flaps in the night..." #birds #birding #ottawa Double crested cormorant 1240
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Hours old goslings sheltering with their mother #birds #birding #ottawa Canada Geese / Cobra chickens 0321
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 01/05/2025The male wood duck is Canada's answer to having colourful tropical waterfowl #birds #birding #ottawa 1482
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 27/04/2025This northern flicker, (a type of woodpecker), is back a bit early this year #birds #birding #ottawa 31475
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Such an elegant pose! Cedar waxwing eating a blackthorn berry #birds #birding #ottawa 1422
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 18/04/2025An existential crisis is happening in real time! Red-winged blackbirds attack their reflections during mating season and leave quite significant messes behind #birds #birding #ottawa 1292
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 13/04/2025This Great Blue Heron came so close, that I could feel the wind of its passage! #birds #birding #ottawa 0412
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Unintentional camouflage. This great egret was flying over a snowy backdrop. At first I thought that the shot was blown out 😎 #birds #birding #ottawa 21022
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Tree swallows having, ahem, a disagreement #birds #birding #ottawa 2653
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 05/04/2025What are you lookin' at? Northern Cardinal, (male) #birds #birding #ottawa #red 1524
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 02/04/2025North American Robin posing in red #birds #birding #ottawa 0441
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Just a wood duck, (male), cruisin' by #birds #birding #photography #ottawa 1561
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Hooded merganser, (male), in full mating plumage #birds #photography #ottawa #nature 2461
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 29/03/2025That's a big beak! This northern shoveller, (male), uses his beak to filter food from the water as he glides along. Very similar to how a baleen whale functions. #birds #birding #photography #ottawa 2351
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 28/03/2025This Northern Pintail, (male), is quite an unusual sight here in Ottawa at this time of year #birds #birding #photography 1353
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 18/03/2025This ring-billed gull giving me the side eye while having a fishy snack #birds #birding #photography #ottawa 0551
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 10/03/2025 I really enjoy the sound the goldeneyes, (juvenile male), make as they take off and fly upriver here at Mud Lake #birds #birding #photography #ottawa Canon t7i Sigma 150-600 C 0330
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 09/03/2025It's not Niagara Falls, but Hogsback Falls is actually quite nice to be around #ottawa #waterfall #nature #rideaucanal #whitewater 0120
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 22/02/2025The feathers on this barred owl's eyelids are pretty much the same as the area around them. Most of the birds that I have seen have smaller feathers on their eyelids #birds #birding #birdwatching #ottawa 0513
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Mrs and Mr Northern Cardinal giving me the side eye #birds #birding #birdwatching #ottawa 0211
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Are you looking at me? #wildlife #squirrel #ottawa #nature #photography 0340
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 15/02/2025I must go, my people need me - Goldeneye, (common male) #birds #birding #birdwatching #ottawa 0290
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Incoming! Mallard, (drake), landing in the Mud lake channel #birds #birding #birdwatching #ottawa #nature 0311
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Looks like this starling was enjoying a snack of staghorn sumac #birds #birding #birdwatching #ottawa #nature 0422
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 10/02/2025The original flappy bird - mallard, (male) - #birds #birding #birdwatching #ottawa #nature 0620
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 09/02/2025I find it fascinating that among the paddling ducks, the male tends to be the most flamboyant... Mergansers, (common male and female) #birds #birding #birdwatching #ottawa #nature 3803
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Are you lookin' at me? Dark eyed junco #birds #birding #birdwatching #ottawa 2795
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Definitely a bad "hair" day - Black capped chickadee - #birds #birding #birdwatching #ottawa #fletchergardens 0422
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 05/02/2025My people need me... Here I come! Wood duck, (male) #birds #birding #birdwatching #ottawa #mudlake 0342
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Just a downy woodpecker, (male), with an interesting hair style #birds #birding #birdwatching #ottawa #mudlake 1051833
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Up close and personal with a male common goldeneye #birds #birding #birdwatching #ottawa 0321
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 23/01/2025This should have been a nice photo of a robin eating a berry... Then I zoomed in on the "eye" - oops #birds #birding #birdwatching #ottawa #mudlake 2372
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 15/01/2025That's a bill! Female northern shoveller spending the winter in #ottawa. #birds #birdwatching #birding 1411
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Ice accretion disk along the Ottawa River. This is nature's 3D printer at work 😎 0180
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 07/01/2025House finch, (male). Interestingly enough it just sat there for quite a while, ignoring me - #birds #birdwatching #birding #ottawa 1422
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 04/01/2025This wood duck, (drake), is still hanging around on the Ottawa River #birds #birding #birdwatching #ottawa 2393
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Northern cardinal, (male), giving me the side eye #birds #birdwatching #ottawa #wildlife 1291
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Little red squirrel enjoying a sumac snack #wildlife #ottawa 2363
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 23/12/2024An alert blue jay #birds #birdwatching #ottawa 1192
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 22/12/2024This little character is puffing up its feathers to deal with the cold #ottawa #birds White-breasted nuthatch 1181
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 09/12/2024I must go, my people need me 👽 #birds #ottawa Common golden eye, male 0131
Jason Mac @jason-mac-canada.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Saw this little guy just off shore at Andrew Hayden Park. Bufflehead (male) #birds #ottawa #cloudy 1140
