Barn Swallow
Barn Swallow
Horsetail strobilus
Colobus monkey - such a poser
Always a treat to see
Reflected peaks
One Eyed Sphinx Moth / Smerinthus cerisyi
Coral Fungus
Purple Avens / Water Avens / Geum rivale
Tiny spider with a death wish
Water Lily
Black-crowned Night-heron
Mountain Bluebird with food for his babies
Nodding Thistle / Musk Thistle / Carduus nutans
A beautiful catch
Scaly Pholiota / Pholiota squarrosa
European Skipper
Hard working Dad
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, adult male
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker male
Creeping Thistle / Cirsium arvense, pure white, no…
Peony seedpods
American Goldfinch juvenile / Spinus tristis
Downy Woodpecker and American Goldfinch
Pine Siskin
Jackie's squirrel - Red or Eastern Gray?
Pine Siskin
Pine Siskin taking a bath
Vesper Sparrow
Impressive creature
Enjoying a good meal
Ferruginous Hawk
Ferruginous Hawks - now safely grown and gone
A classic light/intermediate-morph adult Swainson'…
Many-plume moth / Alucita sp.
Smokey Eagle Lake
Cute goat at Eagle Lake
Rough cocklebur / Xanthium strumarium
Columbian Ground Squirrel / Urocitellus columbianu…
Beautiful guttation droplets on a polypore
Beauty of a weed
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
Mourning Dove - love the blue eye-ring
A spider's creation
Yesterday's Chinook Arch
Living on the edge
Spooked by a barking dog
Wood Duck male / Aix sponsa
Wood Duck male / Aix sponsa
On a cold summer day with mist and drizzle
Swainson's Hawk / Buteo swainsoni
Clouded Sulphur on Lettuce sp.?
Another red barn
Swainson's Hawk watching for its next snack
Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel
Turkistan Burning Bush / Euonymus nanus turkmenist…
Maple sp.?
Sea Holly
Rufous Hummingbird male / Selasphorus rufus
Two-month-old American Kestrel
Photo-bombed by Blackbirds
Happy Thanksgiving!
After our first major snowstorm
Rufous Hummingbird
Cinnamon Black Bear, Waterton Lakes National Park,…
Eastern Kingbird
Bluebird bling
Calliope Hummingbird / Selasphorus calliope
Pileated Woodpecker
On the way to Canmore - seven Swans a-swimming :)
Red Fox (just for the record)
Twice the beauty
Pileated Woodpecker seen in Canmore
Far, far away
Great Gray Owl, highly zoomed
Great Gray Owl hunting
Great Gray Owl, watching and listening
You never know where you'll see a Snowy Owl
Two male Snowy Owls in the same field
A most welcome find
A change from a world of white
A digital setting capture of the Laing house, Albe…
Swainson's Hawk
Bee on Sunflower
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
Mountain Bluebird
Gaillardia
Forgetmenot Pond, Kananaskis
Elbow Falls, Kananaskis
Showing off all his "bling"
A slight touch of blue
Red-winged Blackbird male
Jumpingpound Loop trio
Don't get excited - an old image, LOL!
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Waterton Lakes National Park is where three friends (Anne B, Janet and Shirley) and I went for two days, 11 and 12 June 2018. Part of Monday was spent travelling south to Waterton, stopping at several places en route, including Lundbreck Falls. Our first short stop was in Kananaskis, where we enjoyed watching two or three tiny Hummingbirds and a pair of colourful Barn Swallows. We actually got to witness two Hummingbird males fighting, down on the ground - too far for me to get photos, other than one very distant, blurry shot. I am not a fan of taking photos at feeders, but will still do so if it offers me a good view of a bird.
With no stops, it takes roughly three hours to get to Waterton. We stayed on Monday night at the Bear Mountain Motel in Waterton town. Tuesday morning, we drove around the Waterton area, hoping to maybe see more bears, and then made out way back north, reaching Calgary late afternoon/early evening. As it was, we were so lucky to see a gorgeous Cinnamon Black Bear early evening on Monday, at first from a great distance across the lake and then unexpectedly close. Also spotted a Black Bear in among the blackened, burned trees that were near the edge of the road. It was very difficult to see and impossible to see an open spot through which to take photos - but it was our second bear.
I had been hoping to someday get a chance to get down to Waterton, especially to see how it looked after the devastating Kenow wildfire that damaged or destroyed so much of the park in 2017. Most of the park is still closed, but the whole town site and Chief Mountain Parkway and area are open. To me, the park looked beautiful, with enough green areas to contrast with the dead trees on the mountain sides. Firefighters did such a brilliant job last year of saving the whole town, and a team of firefighters form Calgary had been given the task of doing all they could to save the historic Prince of Wales Hotel. There it still stands, untouched. One can see how close to the town and iconic Hotel the fire had come - right up to the very edge, where a sprinkler system had been set up before the fire got close.
Supper on Monday was at Zum's restaurant - an interesting place with walls covered with old vehicle licence plates. Apparently, people send them to the restaurant from so many places, near and far. The food was good and, after a short drive to see what we could find, we returned the next morning for breakfast.
Apart from the wind, we were very lucky with the weather for our two days. No rain, thank goodness. The morning was chilly and so was the night. On Tuesday, the temperature got up to 20C on our way home. Amazing how much one can see in just a couple of days!
With no stops, it takes roughly three hours to get to Waterton. We stayed on Monday night at the Bear Mountain Motel in Waterton town. Tuesday morning, we drove around the Waterton area, hoping to maybe see more bears, and then made out way back north, reaching Calgary late afternoon/early evening. As it was, we were so lucky to see a gorgeous Cinnamon Black Bear early evening on Monday, at first from a great distance across the lake and then unexpectedly close. Also spotted a Black Bear in among the blackened, burned trees that were near the edge of the road. It was very difficult to see and impossible to see an open spot through which to take photos - but it was our second bear.
I had been hoping to someday get a chance to get down to Waterton, especially to see how it looked after the devastating Kenow wildfire that damaged or destroyed so much of the park in 2017. Most of the park is still closed, but the whole town site and Chief Mountain Parkway and area are open. To me, the park looked beautiful, with enough green areas to contrast with the dead trees on the mountain sides. Firefighters did such a brilliant job last year of saving the whole town, and a team of firefighters form Calgary had been given the task of doing all they could to save the historic Prince of Wales Hotel. There it still stands, untouched. One can see how close to the town and iconic Hotel the fire had come - right up to the very edge, where a sprinkler system had been set up before the fire got close.
Supper on Monday was at Zum's restaurant - an interesting place with walls covered with old vehicle licence plates. Apparently, people send them to the restaurant from so many places, near and far. The food was good and, after a short drive to see what we could find, we returned the next morning for breakfast.
Apart from the wind, we were very lucky with the weather for our two days. No rain, thank goodness. The morning was chilly and so was the night. On Tuesday, the temperature got up to 20C on our way home. Amazing how much one can see in just a couple of days!
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