Welcome the Sun

The coldest morning so far heralded a gorgeously clear blue sky. The sun stays much lower now and that is good and bad. It's almost 7 AM before the sun breaks through the trees, but that low light adds so much contrast to our world. Everyone was wanting to warm up. The first to catch the morning sun was this great blue heron who strategically perched on the top of the willow tree, right at the bottom of Lakeside Park, beside Greenbrook Drive:


I could have stayed there all morning, as the heron never moved while I was at Lakeside Park, but there was more to see.  After so many overcast days, this morning was very welcome. A young warbling vireo found a secluded perch to warm up in the sun and occasionally be fed by its parents:


I often see cardinals at the lake but seem unable to capture any reasonable photos of them. This was a welcome photo opportunity:


I never really moved from the bottom edge of the lake. This song sparrow was preening itself in the bushes in the pollinator meadow:


A photo of a wren which I also took on the same bushes as the previous photo:


I had to take one more photo of the garden spiders before the cold weather moves in. I really like the shimmering water droplets caught on the web:


I simply cannot leave the pollinator meadow (which I have mistakenly been calling the wildflower meadow in previous posts) without a photo of a bumblebee on a flower:


Not to be outdone by the bumblebee, here is a honeybee flying to the next flower:


This grasshopper appears to like this cotton candy, which is, in reality, a reed head:


To back up my report yesterday of the warblers, here is a migrating warbler which I took, again close to the pollinator meadow. I am not entirely sure what kind of warbler it is though. Please leave a comment if you know:


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Location: Lakeside Park, 206 Lakeside Dr, Kitchener, ON N2M 4C5, Canada

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