blackbird flying over the canola field
Earlier this week I was thinking, I wanted to get out of the city for a drive, I knew the canola fields were blooming, and there fields would be filled with beautiful shades of yellow and green. As luck would have it I had to drive to a property just south and east of Calgary for work on Tuesday.
I have to admit that I don’t always carry by camera gear in the car, but decided that it was a good idea on Tuesday, and I am glad I did. I stopped on the side of the road near a patch of cattail, natural habitat for red-winged blackbirds.
They won’t let you get too close, this bird chatted at me for quite sometime while I photographed the fields and the cattails. I guess I was a little closer that he liked, and when I didn’t move off, he started to do the flyby.
Great shot – I love the contrast with the canola field. Blackbirds are chatty little fellows… just don’t get too close to their nest or they’ll dive bomb you
. I’ve gotten a few good shots when paddling (or gliding) through the reeds but they are skittery.
thanks Suzi, the little guys are skittery that is for sure! the flyby was my first warning, any closer and he was going to be after my head!
like a painting!
thanks Frizztext.
This photo looks like something Vincent Van Gogh would have painted when he was living in the south of France.
Thanks Tim, that is quite a compliment!