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
Purple Prairie Clover
Mariposa Lily
Thimbleberry / Rubus parviflorus
Orange False Dandelion / Agoseris aurantiaca
Bracted Honeysuckle / Lonicera involucrata
Paintbush, with a visiting Crab Spider
Red Baneberry
03 Blowing in the wind
Nuttall's Sunflower / Helianthus nuttallii
Early Cinquefoil
Indian Breadroot
Backlit beauties
Pika / Ochonta princeps
Just look at those toenails
Wild Blue Columbine / Aquilegia brevistyla
Munch, munch, munch ....
My first sighting of the season
Pink Monkeyflower / Mimulus lewisii
Wild Blue Columbine / Aquilegia brevistyla
02 Mountain Lady's Slipper / Cypripedium montanum
Mariposa Lily / Calochortus apiculatus
Louisiana Broomrape / Orobanche ludoviciana
Wild bergamot, Monarda fistulosa
Canada Violet / Viola canadensis
Clustered Broomrape / Orobanche fasciculata
Harebell / Campanula rotundifolia
Rough-fruited Fairybells / Prosartes trachycarpa
Hungry little Muskrat
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
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Shakin' all over
There were two of these American Crows sitting on my back fence two days ago, 1 August 2016, making a whole lot of noise. Not sure, but I think both were juveniles. Or maybe not, as I've just read the information below, saying that "when Crows molt, the old feathers can appear brownish..." Caught this one just as it was ruffling up all its beautiful feathers. Grabbed my camera just in time to get two or three shots and off they flew. Local Crows used to nest in my neighbour's Spruce tree, but the last few years they have been nesting somewhere else.
"American Crows are familiar over much of the continent: large, intelligent, all-black birds with hoarse, cawing voices. They are common sights in treetops, fields, and roadsides, and in habitats ranging from open woods and empty beaches to town centers. They usually feed on the ground and eat almost anything – typically earthworms, insects and other small animals, seeds, and fruit but also garbage, carrion, and chicks they rob from nests. Their flight style is unique, a patient, methodical flapping that is rarely broken up with glides.
American Crows are all black, even the legs and bill. When crows molt, the old feathers can appear brownish or scaly compared to the glossy new feathers." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Crow/id
Monday was mostly a quiet day at home - it was a long weekend and I didn't really want to be doing a longish drive with a lot of traffic on the roads. Late in the afternoon, I did get out to see a pair of Swainson's Hawks and also drove to a local Osprey family, that I think has three youngsters still on the nest. Seeing the Hawks was quite an experience - I was dive-bombed three times in the two minutes maximum that I was there! A friend had told me about this family, but didn't have the same experience as me!
Yesterday and today, I have been without my vehicle, because it suddenly developed a really bad, noisy muffler problem. It was going to be a major expense ($4,660) to repair/replace the various parts and I have just heard back that one part is no longer available. To find one would mean being without my car for two weeks! So, I think I will collect the car and just drive within the few roads by me (groceries, etc.) with an extremely noisy vehicle. It looks like I will have to buy a new car - something that I have been thinking about the last few years, as the car is now over 17 years old. Not something I wanted to do on the spur of the moment like this, though. Unfortunately, I will have to cancel my plans to take my daughter to the mountains tomorrow. For years and years I have longed to drive there myself and finally plucked up courage to go with my daughter to help me navigate.
"American Crows are familiar over much of the continent: large, intelligent, all-black birds with hoarse, cawing voices. They are common sights in treetops, fields, and roadsides, and in habitats ranging from open woods and empty beaches to town centers. They usually feed on the ground and eat almost anything – typically earthworms, insects and other small animals, seeds, and fruit but also garbage, carrion, and chicks they rob from nests. Their flight style is unique, a patient, methodical flapping that is rarely broken up with glides.
American Crows are all black, even the legs and bill. When crows molt, the old feathers can appear brownish or scaly compared to the glossy new feathers." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Crow/id
Monday was mostly a quiet day at home - it was a long weekend and I didn't really want to be doing a longish drive with a lot of traffic on the roads. Late in the afternoon, I did get out to see a pair of Swainson's Hawks and also drove to a local Osprey family, that I think has three youngsters still on the nest. Seeing the Hawks was quite an experience - I was dive-bombed three times in the two minutes maximum that I was there! A friend had told me about this family, but didn't have the same experience as me!
Yesterday and today, I have been without my vehicle, because it suddenly developed a really bad, noisy muffler problem. It was going to be a major expense ($4,660) to repair/replace the various parts and I have just heard back that one part is no longer available. To find one would mean being without my car for two weeks! So, I think I will collect the car and just drive within the few roads by me (groceries, etc.) with an extremely noisy vehicle. It looks like I will have to buy a new car - something that I have been thinking about the last few years, as the car is now over 17 years old. Not something I wanted to do on the spur of the moment like this, though. Unfortunately, I will have to cancel my plans to take my daughter to the mountains tomorrow. For years and years I have longed to drive there myself and finally plucked up courage to go with my daughter to help me navigate.
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