A favourite old barn
Hooded Merganser male
The challenges of being a birder
Western Meadowlark
American White Pelicans, zoomed with Nikon B700
American White Pelicans with my old Panasonic FZ20…
Old barn in spring snow
American White Pelicans, Nikon Coolpix B700
A rural "winter" scene
They call this spring?
They're back : )
Goodbye, winter - so glad you are gone!
Remembering winter
Friends at Bow Lake
Reflected peaks
Bow Lake on a cloudy day
Greater White-fronted Geese / Larus glaucoides
After our first major snowstorm
Early fall, looking (and feeling) like winter
On the way to Chain Lakes
A view from Chain Lakes
Beauty of winter (well, late fall)
Winter in the park
Delicate hoarfrost
Have you ever seen a furry pig?
A favourite old barn
Llama in winter
Llama
Overload of Llamas : )
A quick drive-by shot
Red barn through the fog
Old red barn on a foggy day
The beauty of hoar frost
Short-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Peace in the countryside
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl - from January
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Wide open spaces
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Kananaskis, through the windshield
September snow in Kananaskis
Ice and bokeh
Nature's artwork
Bighorn Sheep female
Kananaskis 'winter'
Kananaskis
Bighorn Sheep female
New birding blind in a local park
One of two Coyotes
On the way to Canmore - seven Swans a-swimming :)
Winter beauty
Red Fox (just for the record)
Twice the beauty
On its way down
Boreal Chickadee
Prairie life in winter
A beautiful day in Weaselhead
With more big storms to come
Coyote crossing the frozen Elbow River
A view from yesterday
Plain, but welcome
Winter's beauty
Rusty and abandoned
What is this?
Old barns in the foothills
Sharp-tailed Grouse
The ever-present Black-capped Chickadee
Deer on the horizon
A lucky Moose day
Sharp-tailed Grouse
A white world
Country scene in winter
Better late than never
Whites and blues of winter
Red barn in winter
The beauty of winter
Young and innocent
Old wagon in winter
Boreal Chickadee, caught just in time
Yet another snowstorm
White-tailed Deer through the snow
Yesterday's COLD walk
Juvenile Northern Goshawk, feeding
Pine Grosbeak female or juvenile
Yesterday's walk in Fish Creek Park
Miniature horses in a winter playground
Old barns in winter
Common Redpoll in falling snow
You never know where you'll see a Snowy Owl
Two male Snowy Owls in the same field
Snowy Owl number 5
Townsend's Solitaire / Myadestes townsendi
Winter walk in the park
The Bow River at Carburn Park
A rural Christmas
A glimpse through the trees
Pretty in the sunshine
On a New Year's Day Bird Count
On a brutally cold New Year's Day Count
Happy New Year, everyone!
An old dog named Fang
On a Christmas Bird Count, -23C
Handsome Pine Grosbeak male
Jackrabbit, seen in my car headlights
Red barn in winter
Love a Llama
Last night's snow .... and -29°C (windchill -38°C)
Trudging through the snow
Mountain Chickadee / Poecile gambeli
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This photo was taken on 9 January 2016, when I took part in a Mid-winter Bust-out trip east of the city, led by Terry Korolyk. Eight of us, plus our leader, took part in this day trip - maybe when everyone else saw what the temperature was first thing in the morning (-23C, not counting windchill, which would have made it much colder), they changed their mind about going! Everything was covered in a heavy layer of hoar frost, which turned everywhere into a beautiful winter wonderland. The sky was blue - what more could anyone want? Well, a few birds would be nice, of course : )
The highlight of the day was seeing 6 Short-eared Owls, in addition to 6 Snowy Owls (7 seen by the people in the other cars, when we split up at the end of the day). As a photographer, though, the only birds that were barely close enough were two of the Snowy Owls. All the Short-eared Owls were tiny dots in the landscape. I don't know how anyone was able to spot them! Most of the photos I took of anything were so blurry and not fit for use. Zoomed in shots, especially, suffered from heat distortion - and distorted they are!
Our meeting place was right across the city; a drive that I never enjoy at all, but I really didn't want to miss this outing. Some of the roads we travelled were ones that I had driven several times before. Most of the time, though, I had no idea where we were : )
As always happens on any day that I go anywhere, I turned my camera lens to anything else of interest/beauty, even more so when the birds are way, way off in the distance.
Thank you, Terry - it was a great day and much appreciated, as always! You did an excellent write-up of the whole day (not posted here). Many thanks for driving some of us, Andrew.
The highlight of the day was seeing 6 Short-eared Owls, in addition to 6 Snowy Owls (7 seen by the people in the other cars, when we split up at the end of the day). As a photographer, though, the only birds that were barely close enough were two of the Snowy Owls. All the Short-eared Owls were tiny dots in the landscape. I don't know how anyone was able to spot them! Most of the photos I took of anything were so blurry and not fit for use. Zoomed in shots, especially, suffered from heat distortion - and distorted they are!
Our meeting place was right across the city; a drive that I never enjoy at all, but I really didn't want to miss this outing. Some of the roads we travelled were ones that I had driven several times before. Most of the time, though, I had no idea where we were : )
As always happens on any day that I go anywhere, I turned my camera lens to anything else of interest/beauty, even more so when the birds are way, way off in the distance.
Thank you, Terry - it was a great day and much appreciated, as always! You did an excellent write-up of the whole day (not posted here). Many thanks for driving some of us, Andrew.
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