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
Powderpuff flower
Common Nighthawk / Chordeiles minor
Eastern Kingbird, SW of Calgary
Male Snowy Owl
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Eastern Kingbird, from my archives
Long-eared Owl
Helmeted Guineafowl
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Farmyard friends
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
A face only a mother could love
Day 7, Brown Anole (?) extending dewlap, southern…
Day 7, Hong Kong orchid tree / Bauhinia (blakeana?…
Day 6, Northern Cardinal male, southern Texas
Day 3, leg band & tracking device, Whooping Crane…
Day 3, Whooping Crane adult, Aransas National Wild…
Day 3, Cormorant drying its wings, Aransas boat tr…
Creeping Thistle / Cirsium arvense, pure white, no…
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker male
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, adult male
Hard working Dad
European Skipper
Scaly Pholiota / Pholiota squarrosa
A beautiful catch
Nodding Thistle / Musk Thistle / Carduus nutans
Mountain Bluebird with food for his babies
Black-crowned Night-heron
Water Lily
Tiny spider with a death wish
Purple Avens / Water Avens / Geum rivale
Coral Fungus
One Eyed Sphinx Moth / Smerinthus cerisyi
Reflected peaks
Always a treat to see
Colobus monkey - such a poser
Horsetail strobilus
Barn Swallow
Barn Swallow
Hummingbird at feeder
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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Peony seedpods
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I always think Peony seedpods are interesting and beautiful. Almost like a circle of little green birds sleeping or preening.
Back to the bio-blitz on Lisa Harbinson' property for my photos tonight. I have just added six extra photos. I really need to get the rest of my suitable shots taken that day edited and posted, so that I can send her the link to my album.
The area we visited on 7 August was an 80-acre site near Bottrel, NW of Calgary. The site consisted of mostly open, low, hilly, ungrazed land, with a few Aspens and Spruce, and willows around three ponds (two of which were dry). On 25 May 2018, four people had visited this site for the first time - I had been unable to go, as I was spending the day with my daughter.
The original visit was the result of the owners winning a free bioblitz at a Silent Auction, in connection with the Ghost Valley Community. A great idea and always a win-win situation, with the land owners learning a lot about what is found on their land, and the leader and participants enjoying a much-appreciated visit to a different location.
We were very lucky to see an adult male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker with two juveniles. I rarely see one of these birds, but love to see the neat rows of small holes that they make on a tree trunk.
Did you know that photographing mushrooms can be dangerous? I believe I knew this already and I was reminded of this on this bio-blitz. Towards the end of our hike, I stopped to photograph a not particularly photogenic mushroom that was growing on a very slight incline. I took one step back to focus better and lost my balance - not sure if my foot went down into a shallow hole or if I was tripped up by one of the many very small, short tree stumps. Whatever the cause, I did a most inelegant, slow-motion fall backwards, hitting my head hard on the ground, surrounded by my friends. Because I was wearing a backpack, I think this resulted in some whiplash, with my head falling back. It was not pleasant to drive anywhere the next day, especially each time I had to start off when traffic lights turned green. The muscles all around my neck and my shoulders are painful, but hopefully it will clear up before too long.
Back to the bio-blitz on Lisa Harbinson' property for my photos tonight. I have just added six extra photos. I really need to get the rest of my suitable shots taken that day edited and posted, so that I can send her the link to my album.
The area we visited on 7 August was an 80-acre site near Bottrel, NW of Calgary. The site consisted of mostly open, low, hilly, ungrazed land, with a few Aspens and Spruce, and willows around three ponds (two of which were dry). On 25 May 2018, four people had visited this site for the first time - I had been unable to go, as I was spending the day with my daughter.
The original visit was the result of the owners winning a free bioblitz at a Silent Auction, in connection with the Ghost Valley Community. A great idea and always a win-win situation, with the land owners learning a lot about what is found on their land, and the leader and participants enjoying a much-appreciated visit to a different location.
We were very lucky to see an adult male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker with two juveniles. I rarely see one of these birds, but love to see the neat rows of small holes that they make on a tree trunk.
Did you know that photographing mushrooms can be dangerous? I believe I knew this already and I was reminded of this on this bio-blitz. Towards the end of our hike, I stopped to photograph a not particularly photogenic mushroom that was growing on a very slight incline. I took one step back to focus better and lost my balance - not sure if my foot went down into a shallow hole or if I was tripped up by one of the many very small, short tree stumps. Whatever the cause, I did a most inelegant, slow-motion fall backwards, hitting my head hard on the ground, surrounded by my friends. Because I was wearing a backpack, I think this resulted in some whiplash, with my head falling back. It was not pleasant to drive anywhere the next day, especially each time I had to start off when traffic lights turned green. The muscles all around my neck and my shoulders are painful, but hopefully it will clear up before too long.
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