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<\/a>\nThis Red-tailed Hawk landed a dozen metres from me.<\/em><\/p>\n
Birds as Bright as Any Tropical Beauty<\/h2>\n
People often gasp at the colours of tropical plumage but some of our every day Ontario birds are equally electric.<\/p>\n
A male Indigo Bunting<\/p>\n And while other Ontario birds may not be fluorescently coloured, they are welcome sights on any walk.<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure an artist could spend an enjoyable afternoon matching a flower near the creek with each pre-mixed colour in a set. I only took photos of a few as I was enjoying just looking at them all and forgot to stop and click.<\/p>\n As summer progresses, the colours will shift to the purples and yellows, reds and oranges of sumac and oak, sugar maple, asters and goldenrod. Winter will quiet down to the greys and browns of bark and leaves but there will be flashes of red and yellow in the cardinals and siskins to keep us alert.<\/p>\n In the meantime, though, I intend to glory in the rich variety of hues and tones, shades and shadows of summer.<\/p>\n Related Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n Join In<\/strong> Birds, butterflies, flowers, damselflies, even toads-in-training, is there anything that doesn’t bring a smile in summer? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[398,554,559,25,558,409,418,520,54,107,218,540,557,555],"class_list":["post-5065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rambles","tag-american-goldfinch","tag-american-toad","tag-banded-hairstreak","tag-birds","tag-chickory","tag-common-milkweed","tag-damselflies","tag-great-blue-heron","tag-oakville","tag-ontario","tag-red-tailed-hawk","tag-sixteen-mile-creek","tag-st-johns-wort","tag-violet-dancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5065"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5570,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5065\/revisions\/5570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
\nA male American Goldfinch<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>
\n OK damselflies are not birds but they come in many electric colour combinations.<\/em><\/p>\nBlues and Greys and Browns Add Comfortable Contrast<\/h2>\n
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\nEastern Phoebe<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nGreat Blue Heron in 16 Mile Creek
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\n Toadpoles growing legs and dreaming of land.
\n<\/em><\/p>\nFlowers Fill In Any Missing Hues<\/h2>\n
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\nChicory<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nA Hairstreak on Common Milkweed<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nSt. John’s Wort<\/em><\/p>\n<\/a>
\nPurple Flowering Raspberry<\/em><\/p>\n\n
\nAre there any summer colours that really catch your eye? Please share your favourite with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"