Rough-fruited Fairybells / Prosartes trachycarpa
Harebell / Campanula rotundifolia
Clustered Broomrape / Orobanche fasciculata
Canada Violet / Viola canadensis
Wild bergamot, Monarda fistulosa
Louisiana Broomrape / Orobanche ludoviciana
Mariposa Lily / Calochortus apiculatus
02 Mountain Lady's Slipper / Cypripedium montanum
Wild Blue Columbine / Aquilegia brevistyla
Pink Monkeyflower / Mimulus lewisii
My first sighting of the season
Munch, munch, munch ....
Wild Blue Columbine / Aquilegia brevistyla
Just look at those toenails
Pika / Ochonta princeps
Backlit beauties
Indian Breadroot
Early Cinquefoil
Nuttall's Sunflower / Helianthus nuttallii
03 Blowing in the wind
Red Baneberry
Paintbush, with a visiting Crab Spider
Bracted Honeysuckle / Lonicera involucrata
Orange False Dandelion / Agoseris aurantiaca
Thimbleberry / Rubus parviflorus
Mariposa Lily
Purple Prairie Clover
Shakin' all over
White Prairie Clover / Dalea candida
Paintbrush - green flowers, red bracts
Yellow Owl's-clover / Orthocarpus luteus
The cutest little furball
Yellow Columbine
A brief moment's rest
A brief moment of rest
Between a rock and a hard place
Push!
Light-coloured Pika
Mid-squeak!
It's that little guy (gal) again
Mariposa Lily
A brief close encounter
Muskrat ripples
Water Smartweed / Polygonum amphibium
Love those little Pika feet
Pika pose
It's Pika time - again
Wild Bergamot
Chocolate chip lichen / Solorina crocea
Muskrat, SW Calgary
Wild and wonderful Lupines
Indian Breadroot / Pediomelum esculentum
Red Baneberry, Waterton Lakes National Park
Pink Monkeyflower
Orange False Dandelion / Agoseris aurantiaca
Small and fast .... and adorable
Pika, on a windy day
Cinnamon Black Bear, Waterton Lakes National Park,…
Blue Flax / Linum lewisii
American Pika - such a cutie
Day 3, Large-flowered Bellwort / Uvularia grandifl…
Pika - tiny fluffball
Yellow Mountain-avens / Dryas drummondii
Beetle on Fringed Grass-of-Parnassus
Prince's Pine / Chimaphila umbellata
European Skipper on wild Bergamot
Fringed Grass-of-Parnassus / Parnassia fimbriata
Nuttall's Sunflower / Helianthus nuttallii
European Skipper on Pearly Everlasting / Antennari…
Clustered Broomrape / Orobanche fasciculata
Orange False Dandelion / Agoseris aurantiaca
Yarrow with tiny visitor
Many-flowered Monkeyflower / Mimulus floribundus
Thimbleberry / Rubus parviflorus
Busy little Muskrat
Strawberry Blite / Chenopodium capitatum
Pretty shade of Paintbrush
Gairdner’s Yampah (Yampa) / Perideridia gairdneri,…
Rough-Fruited Fairybells / Prosartes trachycarpa
Pink Monkeyflower / mimulus lewisii
Harebell
A delicate shade of Paintbrush
Water Hemlock / Cicuta
Pink Monkeyflower / mimulus lewisii
Mountain Lady's Slipper / Cypripedium montanum
Orobanche / Orobanche fasciculata
Brightening up the forest
Shrubby Penstemon / Penstemon fruticosus
Mountain Lady's Slipper / Cypripedium montanum
Nodding Silverpuffs / Microseris nutans
Mariposa Lily / Calochortus apiculatus
Arrowleaf Balsamroot with Crab Spider
Bird's-eye primrose / Primula mistassinica
Horned Lark in April snow
Pika, up close
Jack Rabbit turning from white to brown
Growing at Pine Coulee Reservoir
Prairie Crocuses covered in water droplets
Early Blue Violets
Brrr ... shiver
Love a Pika's ears
Ice crystals on Prairie Crocus
Love those big ears and big feet
Gathering food for the winter
White-tailed Deer
Columbian Ground Squirrel
A moment of closeness
Horned Lark
"Just" a Mallard
Nibble ... nibble ... nibble
Stocking up on food for the winter
Pika storing food for the winter in its cave
Young North American Beaver
Just a small mouthful
Living in a rocky world
Nibble, nibble, nibble
Just for the record
On golden pond
A moment to ponder
Eye-catching Fireweed
Supper time for a hungry young Beaver
Filling up on berries before winter
Young Beavers at play
Quick march
A change from Marmots
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Hungry little Muskrat
An overcast morning today, 22 October 2015. The sun is supposed to shine this afternoon - I'm just hoping it won't rain, as I washed my car yesterday and vacuumed it out, ready for the arrival of winter. I then dropped it off at my Tire place to get my winter tires put on today - thought that if I left it any longer, too many people would be making appointments to get the same done.
Another thing completed this week was having two people come and remove everything from my tiny back yard. It had become one tangled jungle mess and, as I can't bend or kneel to do anything, it had been become totally out of control. It now looks completely bare and wonderfully tidy! That big, black cloud that has been hanging over my head for years has finally gone, and it feels so good.
On 16 August 2015, I went with a group of friends to Carburn Park to look for Warblers and several species were seen by at least some of the group. Group size was much too large even after splitting in half, but I think everyone was so thankful that it wasn't raining, unlike the previous day of heavy rain, that they came out to enjoy the sunshine. I enjoyed seeing a Merlin, a number of Double-crested Cormorants, and several Pelicans that flew overhead. Without binoculars, I didn't really see any of the Warblers, except for a quick glimpse of one Yellow-rumped Warbler.
As you can see from this photo, my eyes were not always looking upwards : ) On any birding walk, I'm always looking around me to see what else there is to photograph. We tend to walk on such uneven ground, that my eyes are mostly downwards anyway, making sure I don't catch my foot in a hole or go flying over a fallen branch or log.
This little Muskrat was near one of the ponds there, busy looking for food. Their little hands are so cute, I always think.
"An adult muskrat is about 40 to 60 cm (16 to 24 inches) long, almost half of that tail, and weighs from 0.7 to 1.8 kg (1.5 to 4 lb). Muskrats are much smaller than beavers (Castor canadensis), with whom they often share their habitat." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskrat
Another thing completed this week was having two people come and remove everything from my tiny back yard. It had become one tangled jungle mess and, as I can't bend or kneel to do anything, it had been become totally out of control. It now looks completely bare and wonderfully tidy! That big, black cloud that has been hanging over my head for years has finally gone, and it feels so good.
On 16 August 2015, I went with a group of friends to Carburn Park to look for Warblers and several species were seen by at least some of the group. Group size was much too large even after splitting in half, but I think everyone was so thankful that it wasn't raining, unlike the previous day of heavy rain, that they came out to enjoy the sunshine. I enjoyed seeing a Merlin, a number of Double-crested Cormorants, and several Pelicans that flew overhead. Without binoculars, I didn't really see any of the Warblers, except for a quick glimpse of one Yellow-rumped Warbler.
As you can see from this photo, my eyes were not always looking upwards : ) On any birding walk, I'm always looking around me to see what else there is to photograph. We tend to walk on such uneven ground, that my eyes are mostly downwards anyway, making sure I don't catch my foot in a hole or go flying over a fallen branch or log.
This little Muskrat was near one of the ponds there, busy looking for food. Their little hands are so cute, I always think.
"An adult muskrat is about 40 to 60 cm (16 to 24 inches) long, almost half of that tail, and weighs from 0.7 to 1.8 kg (1.5 to 4 lb). Muskrats are much smaller than beavers (Castor canadensis), with whom they often share their habitat." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskrat
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