Chuck Rumsey

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Birding | Photography | Living along the Pacific Flyway in Vancouver Canada. https://www.instagram.com/flightpattern1

A Sort-eared Owl hovers, feet dangling and talons clutching a small rodent, while a Northern Harrier dangles below, talons grasping the same prey.
A Short-eared Owl perches on a long stick amongst brown marshland grasses, with its yellow eyes staring back at the viewer.
A Northern Harrier hovers over cattails with wings and tail feathers spread. Snow covered coastal mountains form a feint backdrop.
A Tawny-bellied Hermit hovers in the greenery, it’s long curved beak dipping into a bright pink flower.
A Northern Harrier with wings in a delta formation over its head glides towards the viewer across the tall brown grass of a marshland.
A Short-eared owl looks straight into the camera with its gleaming yellow eyes as it hovers, wings spread and feathered feet dangling, above the tall brown grass.
A White-throated Quail-Dove stretches out its neck, displaying the intricate feather pattern of its neck as it stares back at the camera.
A Short-eared Owl hovers over the brown grasses of a tidal flat with wings and tail feathers spread, and one yellow eye visible,
A Great Blue Heron flies across the frame, close off the surface of a waterbody, while it holds a small mammal in its long beak.
A Northern Harrier, with wings and tail feathers spread, hovers above brown grasses of a field, with mountains in the background.
A Northern Harrier drifts above the grasses of. Marsh a the early morning light casts everything in a distinctive orange glow.
A male Hood Merganser, with its white puffed out head feathers, and bright yellow eye moves through thick, dark waters that carries its reflection.
A Great Blue Heron perches among the abandoned pylons of the tidal marsh of the Fraser River Delta.
As the sun sets across the golden grasses of a tidal marshes, the spread tail feathers of a Northern Harrier are back lit as it hovers.
A colourful male Mallard comes into land among the brown grass of a tidal marsh, wings and tail feathers spread wide, orange feet dangling.
One Northern Harrier swoops down at a steep angle, wings spread, as it moves to engage with a second harrier flying low over the brown grasses of a coastal march.
A Great Blue Heron perches on one leg atop a fence post, with morning light coming from the left and catching its eye.
A Sandhill Crane’s long neck, red mask and amber eye are captured in profile against the bokah of green grass behind it.
A Bald Eagle sweeps onto the scene, wings spread wide and talons dangling as a second eagle jealously guards the salmon its feasting on at the water’s edge.
A Trumpeter Swan’s white feathers stand out against the black water on which it sits, with water droplets streaming from its head and black beak.
A male/female pair of hooded mergansers move through autumnal coloured water. The female’s beak is spread wide as she communicates with her partner, the male’s head is turned in profile to look at her, displaying his beautiful black and white hood, and gleaming yellow eye.
A Northern Harrier and Short-eared Owl are captured, wings spread and talons bared, fighting in silhouette against a cloudy golden sunset sky.
The spread wings of a Short-eared Owl are backlit by the sun as it glides over the brown marsh grass, its yellow eyes glowing with alertness.
A Bald Eagle, silhouetted against an orange sky lands on a circular wooden structure.
The bright red eye, framed by a jet black mask of a Toucan Barbet stares into the camera as it shows off its grey throat and bright red chest.
A Short-eared Owl, with its yellow eyes and round face pointed intently forward, spreads its wings as it glides a few feet off the brown grasses of a tidal flat.
In this black and white image a Great Blue Heron is in the foreground, in focus on a high post in a tidal March, with other posts and herons visible in the out of focus background.
A female Mallard, facing a low sun, sets its wings and drops its orange feet as it comes into landing on the brown marsh grass.
A Marsh Wren perches in a bush and opens its beak wide to project its call.
A Black Oystercatcher walks among the smooth beach rocks of the surf line with an oyster shell held firmly in its bright orange beak.
A Cinnamon Flycatcher perches and poses its orange cinnamon plumage on display against a soft green background.
A Northern Harrier hovers over tidal grasslands with its wings extended in “V” over its head, tail feathers spread, and talons dangling, all with the low evening light setting behind it.
A Short-eared Owl spreads its wings as it tries to pull up and away from a Northern Harrier whose talons grasp desperately at the owl’s tail feathers.
A Yellow-rumped Warbler, wings and tail feathers wide spread, opens its beak mid-air to snatch a flying insect.
A raven poses for the camera, its enormous hooked, black beak smudged with dirt, and fine feathers swooping and scaled down its silvery black body.
A Great Blue Heron perches on a wooden pylon, facing away from the camera and stretches its neck skyward opening its long beak such that we can almost have look inside, from behind.
A pale, adult male Northern Harrier perches on a rain soaked stump among the brown sedges and grass of a tidal flat.
A keel-billed Toucan peers through the trees with its bright eye sunlit, and its long riotous coloured beak showing off a jagged scar.
A Northern Harrier spreads its wings, with wing-tips flared, as it flies across a dark forest background.
A House Finches shows off its deep red/purple breast as it perches on a log and the rain comes down on the pool of water in the background.
A Northern Harrier flies low over grassland, tilting with wings and tail feathers spread, and backlit by the low light of a setting sun.
A Glistening-green tanager shines deep green in profile as it perches on a small branch.
A Redwing Blackbird holds on to a pussy willow as it flairs its bright red shoulders and opens its beak wide in song.
Two Caspian Terns walk along the beach, with the one in the rear, opening its bright orange beak wide as it admonishes its partner in front.
A Long-billed Dowitcher has wings spread wide and feet dangling as it is about to touch down on a rain dappled wetland.