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Page 1: Wildlife Photography in Ottawa and Gatineau · 2019. 3. 1. · Shirleys Bay Crown Game Preserve Causeway restricted to OFNC members. Ottawa Duck Club members may access whole area

Wildlife Photography in Ottawa and Gatineau

D. Gordon E. Robertson

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My Background

Interested in nature from youth

Initially photographed sports and filmed for research

Retired and engaged in wildlife photography

Joined FWG, then OFNC, and ODC

Started giving wildlife tours and talks — added videography to enhance presentations

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My Camera

Hand held, rarely use tripod

Natural lighting, occasionally use a flash

Canon Powershot SX50 HS

wide-angle to 50x optical zoom (24–1200 mm)

close focussing to 0 cm (macro)

viewfinder (poor visually) and large LCD display with articulating screen (vari-angle)

HD video to 30 fps

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OFNC’s birding code of conduct. Applies to other wildlife.

Always consider your impact on birds.

Keep a good distance away and do not linger.

If you note any signs of agitation from the bird, move away immediately.

Do not announce the location of RARE breeding birds.

Avoid flushing birds.

Stay on established trails.

Stay away from active nests.

Do NOT collect specimens.

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Some local wildlife locations

Shirleys Bay Crown Game Preserve (open to OFNC and ODC members)

Gatineau Park

Petrie Island Park

Central Experimental Farm & Fletcher Wildlife Garden

Mer Bleue Conservation Area Britannia

Conservation Area (Mud Lake)

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Central Experimental Farm and vicinity

Agricultural Museum

Dow’s Lake

Fletcher Wildlife Garden

Experimental Farm

Vincent Massey Park

Hog’s Back Park and falls

Dominion Arboretum

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Arboretum (tree park)

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Pine Grosbeak, male, eating seeds from crabapples

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Fletcher Wildlife Garden off Prince of Wales opposite Agriculture Museum

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Fletcher Wildlife Garden – Breeding birds

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Fletcher Wildlife Garden – Migrating birds

Bohemian Waxwings, stop by to feed during winter migration. Look for them around the fruit trees like crabapples.

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Fletcher Wildlife Garden – Nest building or insect hunting

Note, call and drum are from a different Pileated Woodpecker. Downy and Hairy are always present.

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Fletcher Wildlife Garden – Red Squirrel eating peanut

Grey and Red Squirrels present all year, check feeders and forests. Chipmunks and Groundhogs hibernate.

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Fletcher Wildlife Garden – Backyard Garden

Ruby-throated Hummingbirds were a hit in summer, feeding on flowers such as Butterflybush, Phlox, and Dame’s Rocket

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Petrie Island Park

Includes 6 trails, 2 beaches for swimming, picnic tables. Excellent for mammals, turtles, birds, insects and wildflowers.

Interpretative Centre

beaches

trails

trails

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Petrie Island Park – Turtles

Northern Map Turtles

Painted Turtles

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Great Blue Heron – eating a fish

.

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What is this? A beaver?

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Britannia Conservation Area, Park and Beach (Mud Lake)

Mud Lake

Ridge Water treatment plant

Park and beach

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Mud Lake – Snapping Turtles

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Runner-up Prize at OFNC Awards Night 2019

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Mud Lake – fauna

Black-crowned Night Heron Muskrat Painted & Blanding’s Turtles

Wood Duck Black-throated Green Warbler Cottontail Rabbit

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Mer Bleue Conservation Area, part of the Greenbelt – NCC

Prescott-Russell Recreation Trail – walking, biking, horse riding

Bog Trail/P53 – walking, skiing, picnicking

P50/P51 – walking and ski trails

Dewberry Trail –

walking, skiing

Dolman-Ridge Road – walking, sking, snowshoeing

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Mer Bleue Conservation Area – Bog Trail

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Mer Bleue Conservation Area – Bog Trail – carnivorous plants

Three types of carnivorous plants.

Round-leaved Sundew

Purple Pitcherplant

Common Bladderwort

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Mer Bleue Conservation Area – Dewberry Trail

Three types of trilliums on this trail. Used by skiers in winter.

Great White Trillium

Red Trillium

Painted Trillium

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Gatineau Park

Mackenzie King Estate

Lac Phillipe beach

Visitor Centre

Pink Lake and trail (no dogs)

Meech Lake beach

Champlain Lookout

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Gatineau Park – Champlain Lookout

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Gatineau Park – Cross-country trails and chalets

Barred Owl (Hoot Owl)

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Gatineau Park – Pink Lake has rare three-spined stickleback fish

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Gatineau Park – Beaver, in winter

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Gatineau Park – butterflies

Great Spangled Fritillary White Admiral

Compton Tortoiseshell Red Admiral

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Shirleys Bay Crown Game Preserve

Causeway restricted to OFNC members. Ottawa Duck Club members may access whole area.

boat launch and picnic shelter

Lac Deschênes IBA

Innis Point Bird Observatory (bird banding)

Hilda Road bird feeders (winter)

South March Highlands Conservation Forest

The “causeway”

Eagle’s nest

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Shirleys Bay – way to causeway

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Shirleys Bay – flora and fauna

Showy Lady’s-slipper Wood Lily Leopard Frog

Hooded Merganser Osprey Great Blue Heron & Great Egret

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Concerns – Ticks & Lyme disease

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Concerns – Poison Ivy

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Winter Sites – Adàwe Crossing over Rideau River

Barrow’s Goldeneye, male

Common Goldeneye, males Common Goldeneye,

females

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Winter Sites – Adàwe Crossing over Rideau River

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Winter Sites – Billings Bridge (1000 Mallards plus)

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Winter Sites – Hilda Road feeders, Shirley’s Bay

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Winter Sites – Fletcher Wildlife Garden

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Winter Sites – Dewberry Trail feeder, Mer Bleue

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Clubs and Organizations

Ottawa Field-Naturalists’ Club (>150 years old!)

ofnc.ca

Ottawa Duck Club (not a hunting club)

ottawaduckclub.com

Friends of the Central Experimental Farm – flowers, trees

Friends of Petrie Island

Friends of Gatineau Park

eBird – citizen science, birds

iNaturalist – citizen science, all life

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Questions?

Great Horned Owl at Fletcher Wildlife Garden