My partner Pat's recent 90th birthday party at her daughter Lissa Dwyer's home in Aurora...

Pat Cromie gets a 90th birthday kiss from her grandaughter.

Dozens of guests filled several tables in Lissa Dwyer's backyard

Pat Cromie's son and party chef

Pat and newest great-grandson

meet my daughter Auralee attending from Ottawa.

My son-in-law, hector, was one of dozens of guests at Pat's party.

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Barry Wallace

July sunset over Aurora...

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Osprey nesting again on Ravenshoe Sideroad in Keswick, Ontario

Photos by BarrytheBirder

Ospreys now have a second batch of eggs being watched over at the top of towering light standards over a large baseball complex on the  Ravenshoe Sideroad in southwest Keswick, Ontario.   The first set of young birds this year are currently swooping about the site not far from the nearby south end of Lake Simcoe, where they regularly go to fish.

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Pat's Delmanor balcony flowers...

 

                                                                                                       Photos by Barry Wallace

Before the rain

...after the rain

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Lots of Swainson's Hawks in Aurora's skies...

Photos by Barry Wallace

Swainson's Hawks, a raptor normally found in the U.S. midwest (particularly in Kansas), has been showing up in Aurora for the last three or four years and are nesting and breeding here.   There nests are to be found in southwest Aurora in tall fir trees.   They resemble Red-taiied Hawks in size and colouring and are easily mistaken by casual observers.

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Barry Wallace

Last day of June...

Photo by Barry Wallace

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June is for hummingbirds...

Photos by Barry Wallace

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Barry Wallace