Great Blue Heron
4 x 2 = 8
Twins
Colourful Wood Ducks
Alpine Bistort / Polygonum viviparum
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Look what I unearthed : )
Basking in the early morning sun
Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park in the rai…
Tiny Lemon Drops / Bisporella citrina
Pretty little thing
Anthurium
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False Coral fungus
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Is this Clavulinopsis laeticolor?
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Time to feed a hungry youngster
Lamb's Ear / Stachys sp.
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Common Sargeant / Athyma perius
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Forgotten fungus
Rocky Mountains around Canmore, near Banff
Tiny Saddle Fungus in the sunlight
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Eye-catching red
House Wren
A fancy fungus
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Santa's on his way
Yellow-headed Blackbird from the archives
Wilson's Snipe
Banded Orange, Dryadula phaetusa
Spring delight
Glorious Gazania - and tiny friend
Hidden amongst the branches
Little pink bells
Unidentified
One-flowered Wintergreen / Moneses uniflora
Yellow Mountain-avens / Dryas drummondii
Timber Wolf enjoying the sun
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Wavy shadows
Yellow-headed Blackbird
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Arethusa Cirque, Kananaskis
Watch out for its stranglehold
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Waiting ....
Misleading beauty
The sweetest kitten
Sausage Tree flower .... seriously!
An oldie from my archives
Narrowleaf Stoneseed
Rare Przewalski Horses
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Common Indian Crow butterfly (Euploea core)
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Tiny trio
Double-crested Cormorant
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Scaly/Shingled Hedgehog fungus / Sarcodon imbricat…
Wood Duck female
Cascade Ponds, near Banff, Alberta
Glorious sunset over Great Falls, Montana
Portrait of a fine bird
Common Gaillardia
Don't you just want to put it in your pocket and t…
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Police Car Moth / Gnophaela vermiculata
Edelweiss / Leontopodium alpinum
Fence and flowers
Fuchsia
Healthy and hungry
If you go down to the woods today...
Naked Mitrewort / Mitella nuda
A bird for a change
Periwinkle
Milbert's Tortoiseshell
Vermilion Lakes near Banff
Swift Fox / Vulpes velox
Hiding in the grass - Amanita muscaria
Fungus on a fallen branch
Bee on Globe Thistle
Mom has a nap, Dad takes over
Slime mold on moss
A few fungi from Friday
Police Car Moth / Gnophaela vermiculata
Ergot fungus
Never tease a Teasel
Cystoderma cinnabarinum
Eyelash fungi / Scutellinia scutellata
Atlas Moth / Attacus atlas
Forest goblet
The Sickener / Russula emetica
Aptenia cordifolia Syn. Mesembryanthemum cordifoli…
Fungi decoration
Comb tooth fungi / Hericium coralloides
Scarlet Mormon / Papilio rumanzovia
Wishing the heat would go away
Puffball beauty
A view from Rod Handfield's
Resting for one brief moment
Earth Star fungus
Beautiful Comma butterfly
White-tailed fawn and doe
Brightening up the forest
Comb Tooth fungus / Hericium coralloides
Hypomyces luteovirens, syn. Hypomyces tulasneanus
Dwarf Powder Puff
Cradled
Master of the woodlands
White-winged Crossbill / Loxia leucoptera
Fun in the pool
Fungus with veil
I don't have a name yet, other than "beautiful"
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Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park
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This is what the weather was like on 15 July 2012, when five of us took a long drive NE of Calgary, to spend a few hours botanizing at Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park! The day started off overcast, then turned to drizzle, which then turned into non-stop rain. There is a gate at the top of this area, which is closed when it has been, or is raining, as everywhere turns into one slippery surface. Bentonite, ancient volcanic clay ash, is prolific, and when it gets wet, it becomes very, very slippery and treacherous. Our feet slid on the surface of the gravel road that we had to walk on, and we weren't able to leave the path to explore. The gate at the top was unfortunately closed, so we had to walk all the way down to the floor of the badlands - which meant, of course, that the return walk was all uphill, which I never do well with. I'm always so thankful for very patient friends! By the time we reached the bottom, the rain was heavy and after just a few minutes, I was soaked to the skin and remained that way for the rest of the day, ha.
"Dry Island Buffalo Jump is so-named because of a flat-topped mesa called a "dry island" that rises 200 metres above the Red Deer River. In the distance you can see the grassy cliff-top of an ancient buffalo jump. Cree Indians hunted bison here by stampeding them over the high cliffs, providing enough meat, skins and other products to sustain them. The park is a mix of badlands and riparian forests where cacti and other plants typical of Alberta's grasslands are found in proximity to species normally associated with the Boreal Forest Natural Region. Prairie falcons nest on cliff faces in the park. Due to the high content of bentonite (a clay-like material) roads and trails in this area can become very slippery when wet, sometimes making them unsafe or impassable for both vehicle and foot traffic. As a result, the access road from the viewpoint to the park's day use area is often closed during wet conditions."
albertaparks.ca/dry-island-buffalo-jump.aspx
"Dry Island Buffalo Jump is so-named because of a flat-topped mesa called a "dry island" that rises 200 metres above the Red Deer River. In the distance you can see the grassy cliff-top of an ancient buffalo jump. Cree Indians hunted bison here by stampeding them over the high cliffs, providing enough meat, skins and other products to sustain them. The park is a mix of badlands and riparian forests where cacti and other plants typical of Alberta's grasslands are found in proximity to species normally associated with the Boreal Forest Natural Region. Prairie falcons nest on cliff faces in the park. Due to the high content of bentonite (a clay-like material) roads and trails in this area can become very slippery when wet, sometimes making them unsafe or impassable for both vehicle and foot traffic. As a result, the access road from the viewpoint to the park's day use area is often closed during wet conditions."
albertaparks.ca/dry-island-buffalo-jump.aspx
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