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Chuck Rumsey
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Birding | Photography | Living along the Pacific Flyway in Vancouver Canada.
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With its very, very narrow subtropical Andean range, I’m not surprised to have only one capture of a Cinnamon Flycatcher. Valle del Cauca Colombia, April 2025. #birdoftheday #least.

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A Cinnamon Flycatcher perches and poses its orange cinnamon plumage on display against a soft green background.
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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This Northern Harrier tries to slide a ”hovering” shot into the #birdoftheday “takeoff” theme. Richmond BC, November 2025.

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A Northern Harrier hovers over tidal grasslands with its wings extended in “V” over its head, tail feathers spread, and talons dangling, all with the low evening light setting behind it.
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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A Northern Harrier tangles with a Short-eared Owl over the tidal flats of the Fraser Delta. November 2025.

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A Short-eared Owl spreads its wings as it tries to pull up and away from a Northern Harrier whose talons grasp desperately at the owl’s tail feathers.
November 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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This Yellow-rumped Warbler pops up for a quick lunch in Richmond BC. October 2025.

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A Yellow-rumped Warbler, wings and tail feathers wide spread, opens its beak mid-air to snatch a flying insect.
November 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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This Raven was all too eager to pose for a closeup and the #birdoftheday. Prince Rupert BC, October 2025.

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A raven poses for the camera, its enormous hooked, black beak smudged with dirt, and fine feathers swooping and scaled down its silvery black body.
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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This Great Blue Heron stretches skyward in a hopeful attempt to qualify its long beak for the alt #birdoftheday.

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A Great Blue Heron perches on a wooden pylon, facing away from the camera and stretches its neck skyward opening its long beak such that we can almost have look inside, from behind.
November 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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A “grey ghost” Northern Harrier perches in the rain, overlooking the Fraser River delta in Richmond BC. November 2025.

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A pale, adult male Northern Harrier perches on a rain soaked stump among the brown sedges and grass of a tidal flat.
November 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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The sun peeks through the thick canopy to put a quick spotlight on my #birdoftheday, a Keel-billed Toucan looking straight back at the camera. Selva Minca Colombia, April 2025.

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A keel-billed Toucan peers through the trees with its bright eye sunlit, and its long riotous coloured beak showing off a jagged scar.
October 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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A Northern Harrier glides by showing off for the #birdoftheday theme. Delta BC, October 2025.

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A Northern Harrier spreads its wings, with wing-tips flared, as it flies across a dark forest background.
October 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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This House Finch and #BirdoftheDay is clearly thinking “is there a crumb on my beak? You’d tell me, right?” Richmond BC, October 2025.

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A House Finches shows off its deep red/purple breast as it perches on a log and the rain comes down on the pool of water in the background.
October 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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When the #birdoftheday is ‘raptors’ my go to is always going to be the Northern Harrier, including this evening hunter moving across the marshlands of Richmond BC. October 2025.

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A Northern Harrier flies low over grassland, tilting with wings and tail feathers spread, and backlit by the low light of a setting sun.
October 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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A Glistening-green Tanager seemed an appropriate subject for the #birdoftheday theme today. Valle del Cauca, Colombia, April 2025.

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A Glistening-green tanager shines deep green in profile as it perches on a small branch.
October 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Had to reach back to spring to join the #birdoftheday with this singing Redwing Blackbird. Richmond BC, March 2025.

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A Redwing Blackbird holds on to a pussy willow as it flairs its bright red shoulders and opens its beak wide in song.
October 20, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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A couple of characters (Caspian Terns) loitering on the beach in Delta BC. April 2025.

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Two Caspian Terns walk along the beach, with the one in the rear, opening its bright orange beak wide as it admonishes its partner in front.
October 17, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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A Long-billed Dowitcher comes in for landing on a rain dappled runway In Delta BC. October 2025

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A Long-billed Dowitcher has wings spread wide and feet dangling as it is about to touch down on a rain dappled wetland.
October 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Happy #wrensday with this Marsh Wren also hitting the #birdoftheday as a #birdinabush. Delta BC, October 2025.

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A March Wren perches amongst leaves and twigs, beak wide as it fusses and chirps.
October 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Sandhill Crane, Delta BC, October 2025.

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The long legs of a Sandhill Crane carry it over a mud flat as it coils it’s neck and cocks its head with red crest and orange eye clearly in profile.
October 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Wings in full landing mode for #BirdoftheDay and a #MallardMonday in Delta BC, October 2025.

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A male Mallard comes in for landing, wings sculpted in front of its body, orange webbed feet dangling, and head and neck extended forward, all against the backdrop of brown marsh grasses.
October 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Mesozoic vibe courtesy of this Great Blue Heron sweeping over the marshland of Delta BC. October 2025.

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A Great Blue Heron spreads its wings and opens its beak as it sweeps across a grassy marshland.
October 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Wilson’s Snipe, darting through the marshland that edges the Salish Sea near Richmond BC. October 2025.
5 Wilson’s Snipe fly right to left across and through green-brown marsh grasses and a slate grey sky.
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Yellow-rumped Warbler. Richmond BC, October 4, 2025.

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A yellow-rumped warbler sits atop a lichen covered stump.
October 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Northern Harrier. Richmond BC, October 4, 2025.

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A Northern Harrier, wing and tail feathers spread wide, alights upon a decaying tree stump above a grassy wetland.
October 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Blue Heron calisthenics on a warm morning in Richmond BC, July 2025.
A Blue Heron sits on a post and stretches out one long leg, to reach its toes up and scratch its beak.
September 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Already feeling nostalgic for summer. American Goldfinch, Delta BC. August 2025.

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September 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Rose-breasted Nuthatch, Invermere BC. August 2025.

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September 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM