Old and the new
Red barn in winter
Country scene in winter
Old barns in the foothills
Winter's beauty
Plain, but welcome
Prairie life in winter
Glorious Canola
Heading into the mountains
Day 2, Common Five-lined Skink barn, Rondeau PP
Day 2, Five-lined Skink barn, Rondeau PP
Day 2, reflected 'Geese', Rondeau PP
Two of my favourite things
The Straw Barn
Rural decay down south
Prairie winter
Farm with sheep and a donkey
Showing its age
Happy New Year, everyone!
On a Christmas Bird Count, -23C
A sunrise sky that lasted till sunset
Looking across the prairie
Part of an abandoned mining camp
Old tractor at Pioneer Acres
A country scene
A peaceful winter scene
The new "Famous Five" at Granary Road
Old weathered shed
A beauty of a barn
Beyond repair
The joys of an old farmyard
International Loadstar 1600
Cockshutt tractor, Pioneer Acres
Old barn
Case steam tractor, Pioneer Acres
Part of an old miners' camp
A popular row of old granaries
Old red tractor at the Saskatoon Farm
An old grain elevator with character
An old Ford, plus tractors, Pioneer Acres
Rumely Oil Pull Tractor, Pioneer Acres, Alberta
Grass in bloom
Four in a row
Four in a row
Treasures in the yellow strip
Beyond the fence
Pine Coulee Reservoir trip
Cattle drive - and a few old barns and sheds
With a little filtered help
Filtered
Sleeping in the sunshine
Snow turns something ordinary into beautiful
Red's the best in winter
TV's "Heartland" series location
Beautiful farm cat
Old barn at the Ellis Bird Farm
Sharples grain elevator
Under a stormy sky
The long road south
Mossleigh grain elevators
Little red cabin
Gottlob Schmidt's Antelope Hill Ranch
Rural decay
Old glass doorknob
At Mossleigh grain elevators
The Grad Barn 2016
And then there were only THREE!
Along a country back road
The old barn at the Ellis Bird Farm
Weathered and patched
Tucked away near the creek
Window box at Reader Rock Garden
The Famous Five from a distance
The old and the new
Now THIS is winter!
A different style
Little cabin in the woods
A clash of colour
Colour for a snowy morning
A favourite old barn
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HELP is needed to find the two amazing men who stopped (in brutal, -30C weather) to help save the life of one of our birder/photographer friends, who was in a very serious vehicle accident east of the city. Mike (Mike Kelly on Flickr), who is in hospital with a broken jaw, broken wrist, and two broken legs, really, really wants to meet his two rescuers so that he can thank them in person for saving his life. Everyone is using the social media on Facebook in an attempt to find these two good Samaritans, and I thought I would add it here, too, in the hope that someone out there might just know the hoped-for information. It would mean so much to Mike! His many friends would be so happy, too. I will add the link to today's Global TV News article. Of course, it is possible that the two rescuers might have seen the News and hopefully come forward. Mike thinks that one of them might live in British Columbia, the province to the west of us.
globalnews.ca/news/3949198/calgarian-who-barely-survived-...
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I happened to come across this photo last night while searching for certain other shots. Kind of late for Christmas, but I thought it was such a cute scene.
On 2 February 2014, a group of us went on an annual birding trip west of the city, that is normally to the Sibbald Creek area, Exshaw and Harvie Heights. This year, though, we drove around the Water Valley area (NW of Calgary) first and then went straight on to Harvie Heights. Very few birds to be seen in either area, but of course it was wonderful to get out to these places, in good company. At Harvie Heights, near Canmore (near Banff), there were no Grosbeaks, no Clark's Nutcrackers, etc.. The same has been true for so many walks and outings these days - where are all the birds? The day before this trip, a group of people went to a local city park and, in just under three hours of walking, saw only five species of bird.
The following is the report complied by trip leader, Andrew Hart. Thanks for a great day, as always, Andrew!
"Twelve of us set out on a sunny but chilly day with temperatures ranging from -14 deg C to -8 deg C. We started off by driving around in the area to the south of Water Valley as far as the Bates Ranch. We were hoping to find owls, but despite visiting several known previous sighting locations, came up short. We did see several Ravens and Magpies, some Blue Jays (at the Winchell Lake Estates), Black Capped Chickadees, a Rough Legged Hawk, Pileated Woodpecker, and Hairy Woodpecker. We also saw a Coyote.
After lunch we went further south and encountered a family of 6-8 Gray Jays near the Bates Ranch.
We then headed to Harvie Heights. En route we passed a road-killed deer swarming with 20 Ravens, and a Coyote angling to see them off. We also saw two Bald Eagles.
At Harvie Heights we saw several Mountain and Black Capped Chickadees, a Brown Creeper, Pine Siskins, Dark Eyed Juncos, and Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers (the Woodpeckers seen by Phil Quin at a feeder by the hamlet entrance that the rest of us drove past). No Pine Grosbeaks (not that much of a surprise this year) and no Clark's Nutcrackers (more of a surprise).
The incredible sunlit snow blanketed scenery made up for the relative shortcomings in bird species."
globalnews.ca/news/3949198/calgarian-who-barely-survived-...
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I happened to come across this photo last night while searching for certain other shots. Kind of late for Christmas, but I thought it was such a cute scene.
On 2 February 2014, a group of us went on an annual birding trip west of the city, that is normally to the Sibbald Creek area, Exshaw and Harvie Heights. This year, though, we drove around the Water Valley area (NW of Calgary) first and then went straight on to Harvie Heights. Very few birds to be seen in either area, but of course it was wonderful to get out to these places, in good company. At Harvie Heights, near Canmore (near Banff), there were no Grosbeaks, no Clark's Nutcrackers, etc.. The same has been true for so many walks and outings these days - where are all the birds? The day before this trip, a group of people went to a local city park and, in just under three hours of walking, saw only five species of bird.
The following is the report complied by trip leader, Andrew Hart. Thanks for a great day, as always, Andrew!
"Twelve of us set out on a sunny but chilly day with temperatures ranging from -14 deg C to -8 deg C. We started off by driving around in the area to the south of Water Valley as far as the Bates Ranch. We were hoping to find owls, but despite visiting several known previous sighting locations, came up short. We did see several Ravens and Magpies, some Blue Jays (at the Winchell Lake Estates), Black Capped Chickadees, a Rough Legged Hawk, Pileated Woodpecker, and Hairy Woodpecker. We also saw a Coyote.
After lunch we went further south and encountered a family of 6-8 Gray Jays near the Bates Ranch.
We then headed to Harvie Heights. En route we passed a road-killed deer swarming with 20 Ravens, and a Coyote angling to see them off. We also saw two Bald Eagles.
At Harvie Heights we saw several Mountain and Black Capped Chickadees, a Brown Creeper, Pine Siskins, Dark Eyed Juncos, and Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers (the Woodpeckers seen by Phil Quin at a feeder by the hamlet entrance that the rest of us drove past). No Pine Grosbeaks (not that much of a surprise this year) and no Clark's Nutcrackers (more of a surprise).
The incredible sunlit snow blanketed scenery made up for the relative shortcomings in bird species."
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