A Snowbird in Paradise

Honey bee...I hope I can keep these happy.

What a gorgeous day!  The afternoon sun made every insect flitting about my garden so eye-catching that I just had to grab the camera. 

Pretty dragonfly

Geese stopping over

The weather was so gorgeous that we went for a little ride around the Lake Erie Metro Park, camera in hand, of course.  The Picnic area is right on a bay that invites migrating and non-migrating birds to stop over.  Last year I only had my purse camera when I discovered the gathering of birds.  The next day when I returned with my DSLR camera all of the birds had left.  This year I had the DSLR with me and got these photos.

Coming in from all over on their way South

Seagulls, ducks, swans and geese all in one shot!  This is a small sample of the hundreds of birds in this bay.

Plenty of action

While I was there quite a few swans and geese came in and joined the crowd.  Above is a small flock of swans that flew in from Canada in the background.

Landing!!!

A few minutes later a couple of small flocks of geese came from the same area, flying across from Canada.

Canada, US...they see no boundries

Swans and the Ontario Wind Farm

I liked the swans peacefully swimming (here in the US) with the Canadian Wind Farm in the background.

Geese, ducks, swans, gulls and the Edison Power Plant