Wednesday Walk for the birds

This post if for Wednesday walk challenge And Make me Smile Collaboration challenge, initially our collaboration was once a month but due to the popularity of it we have decided to make the collab a weekly thing :)

Any questions about the challenge read the guide at the Bottom of the post ;)

For this weeks walk, I had a couple of options, over the last week most of my walks have been either on trails in one of the many reserves here, but as I shared one of those walks last week, I thought for this week I should share something different, and the other walks I have been taking have been with my longer lenses trying to catch some images of birds and that what I will focus on for this post.
I am not saying these are all great shots, but better images of birds than I have got previously so I feel I am improving at this field of photography.

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Now there are two spots I have been going to primarily to try and catch images of birds, on the harbor walk to try and catch some shots of the Osprey, but that will be for another post, and as yet still haven't got shots I am happy with fully of the Osprey, and the subject of this post birds in Buttownwood Park.

Starting with a couple of shots of this what I believe is a hawk I saw just the other day

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ON this mornings walk after catching a beautiful sunrise I walked around the pond in the park, and saw these two Canadian Geese guarding their nest and eggs

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and also this morning ( as I prepare the post) I saw this heron in one of the water ways off the pond

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and speaking of Geese, when I zoomed in one the little Island on the pond I saw these two having a bit of a battle for turf, the one on the left just landed on the island and the other came racing over to chase it away immediately

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Not sure what this type of bird is but managed to catch a shot of it

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I was fairly happy with the shots of this Hawk so here is another image of it

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and finishing off with this last one

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Weekly giveaway of shares

This week I am sending to the following who joined Wednesday Walk, for this week I did a random draw and the following each received some Hive @toffer, @littlebee4, @alechi, @nikolina, @edprivate and @jacoalberts

And @elizacheng will send to @qwerrie

As @elizacheng and I collaborated with our Wednesday Walk and Make me Smile Challenges

And one person is randomly drawn who joins both challenges to receive one Hive from me and this week it is @TBA

Wednesday Walk is a challenge started by me, the idea is to get out for a short walk and get some shots of what you can see within a short distance of your home office or wherever you start. And this is my entry for this week, but first, let me explain the challenge.

This is my post for the Wednesday Walk challenge hosted by myself, let me first explain the guidelines

Try and get out once a week for a short walk, can be from your office, home or anywhere really and walk for a few blocks or a few minutes looking for things to get shots of.

Your walk does not have to be on a Wednesday I just ask if possible to share your walk photos on a Wednesday.

Try and get a few shots not just one

Add a bit of a write up about where you walked

Just one Wednesday Walk tagged post a week

You can look for anything in general or decide on one subject you want to get shots off.

Make a point of looking around and up and see what you can find to get shots of that otherwise you may miss

Do a post with the shots you get on a Wednesday and tag it with #wednesdaywalk, also if you happen to join, please leave a link to your post in a comment on this post and I will try and visit them all, especially if its not one of the first 5 tags or I may miss seeing it .

Following me and re-Hiving the post so more see it would be appreciated but isn't a rule just a suggestion.

I am not strict on these rules and hence why they are called guidelines and not rules

I will try and visit, and upvote all who take part in the Wednesday Walk.

Make me Smile Collaboration

As I mentioned above Wednesday Walk is collaborating with the [Make Me Smile] hosted by @elizacheng,

Here are the rules for her challenge

Your post can be writing, singing, video, poem,drawing, photography etc.... the most important part is your post Make me" smile, Remember, the ME is whoever read/view/listen to your post and this includes YOURSELF.
b. Your content must be ORIGINAL CONTENT
c. Please include at least 50 Words in your post