Cal Williams > White-tailed Ptarmigan
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Cal Williams > Cold Lunch                                                                             

Finch food and snowflakes.  Taken from inside my house near my woodstove, though a double-pane glass door...
Cal Williams > Gannet Landing                                                                         

Returning gannets land at a pretty high speed, honking desperately (Incoming, Incoming!) and somehow locate their mate and drop directly into that 80-centimeter circle he/she has reserved.   This sets off yet another round of honking in the neighborhood.
Cal Williams > Gannet Head Closeup                                                                    

An attractive bird, the adult Northern Gannet is gleaming white  with black wing tips, with an orange-buff tinged head.  The bill is light blue, and the eye is  blue/grey, surrounded by a bright blue lid and bare, black skin.  The immature birds are dark brown in their first year, gradually acquiring more white in subsequent seasons until maturity at five years
Cal Williams > Young Gannet Pair                                                                      

Gannets generally mate for life before they return in their third year to the colony in which they hatched.  Unable to produce an egg until their fifth year, like all teenagers they never-the-less practice, practice, practice!  This pair of four-year-olds is being typically cute with their affections.
White-tailed Ptarmigan
Cal Williams > White-tailed Ptarmigan
White-tailed Ptarmigan
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