Downy Woodpecker and American Goldfinch
Pine Siskin
Jackie's squirrel - Red or Eastern Gray?
Pine Siskin
Pine Siskin taking a bath
Pine Siskin
Spruce Grouse / Falcipennis canadensis
Vesper Sparrow
Enjoying a good meal
Impressive creature
Ferruginous Hawk
Gramai
Ferruginous Hawks - now safely grown and gone
A classic light/intermediate-morph adult Swainson'…
Smokey Eagle Lake
Cute goat at Eagle Lake
Tooting Bec Lido
Rough cocklebur / Xanthium strumarium
Columbian Ground Squirrel / Urocitellus columbianu…
Fungi on a log
Beautiful guttation droplets on a polypore
Beginning to look like fall
Thirsty Bighorn Sheep
Most likely a Ground Pholiota / Pholiota terrestri…
Let the light shine in
Beauty of a weed
Osprey number 2 / Pandion haliaetus
Onnia triquetra (??) and Blue Stain
Mountain Ash berries
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
Common Nighthawk / Chordeiles minor - threatened s…
Mourning Dove - love the blue eye-ring
Me and my dad
American Goldfinch juvenile / Spinus tristis
American Coot
Hollyhock
Peony seedpods
Common Wood-Nymph / Cercyonis pegala
Creeping Thistle / Cirsium arvense, pure white, no…
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker male
Between the cracks
Succulent beauty
Himalayan Monal female
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, adult male
Puffballs / Calvatia sp.
Once-married Underwing / Catocala unijuga, left fr…
Hard working Dad
European Skipper
Scaly Pholiota / Pholiota squarrosa
Magpie Inky Cap / Coprinus picaceus?
Magpie Inky Cap / Coprinus picaceus?
Magpie juvenile
Alfalfa
Baneberry, red berries
Baneberry, white berries
A beautiful catch
Nodding Thistle / Musk Thistle / Carduus nutans
Botanizing Beagles - Ben and Maggie
Invasive Yellow Clematis
Mountain Bluebird with food for his babies
Himalayan monal / Lophophorus impejanus male
Black-crowned Night-heron
Ruddy Duck male
Glorious Canola
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Rondeau PP
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American Coot
The weather alert for poor air quality continues, though this morning is low risk, unlike the extremely poor air quality the last few days (10 and 10+). This changes all the time. Our temperature is only 7C at 10:00 am! Looks like we could have rain tonight, which would be wonderful if it happens. Hoping rain is in the forecast for British Columbia and down in the States, too, to help with fighting the endless, devastating wildfires! I don't plan on leaving the house today, though, so I thought I would add a few more photos.
Three days ago, on 16 August 2018, I was invited to go with a friend to visit a mutual friend down in Turner Valley and see the birds that come to her beautiful back garden. Only small, this area has been so thoughtfully and beautifully laid out, encouraging all sorts of birds and other wildlife to visit. She is so fortunate that a wildlife corridor is just beyond her deck and garden. Totally unexpectedly, Jackie made us a delicious cheese bun sandwich for lunch that included tomatoes she has grown herself on her deck, along with cold, refreshing lemonade. Thank you so much, Jackie, for your kindness, as always!
Pam, I really appreciate your invite to go with you, and thanks so much for driving a few new back roads and a stop at Frank Lake. I don't know where all the birds were, but there were so few at the Lake and most of those were far, far out. It was a real treat, though, to start off our morning with a beautiful Swainson's Hawk that was perched on a metal fence railing, and to end our day with several (was it three?) American White Pelicans in flight and then landing on a pond in the city. We were lucky that one of them was still on the water by the time we had parked and walked to the pond.
Despite the thick blanket of smoke everywhere and the dreadful air quality, the faint landscape that surrounded us was eerily beautiful. It will feel almost strange to see our beautiful foothills and mountains once again, when the wildfire smoke finally comes to an end.
Three days ago, on 16 August 2018, I was invited to go with a friend to visit a mutual friend down in Turner Valley and see the birds that come to her beautiful back garden. Only small, this area has been so thoughtfully and beautifully laid out, encouraging all sorts of birds and other wildlife to visit. She is so fortunate that a wildlife corridor is just beyond her deck and garden. Totally unexpectedly, Jackie made us a delicious cheese bun sandwich for lunch that included tomatoes she has grown herself on her deck, along with cold, refreshing lemonade. Thank you so much, Jackie, for your kindness, as always!
Pam, I really appreciate your invite to go with you, and thanks so much for driving a few new back roads and a stop at Frank Lake. I don't know where all the birds were, but there were so few at the Lake and most of those were far, far out. It was a real treat, though, to start off our morning with a beautiful Swainson's Hawk that was perched on a metal fence railing, and to end our day with several (was it three?) American White Pelicans in flight and then landing on a pond in the city. We were lucky that one of them was still on the water by the time we had parked and walked to the pond.
Despite the thick blanket of smoke everywhere and the dreadful air quality, the faint landscape that surrounded us was eerily beautiful. It will feel almost strange to see our beautiful foothills and mountains once again, when the wildfire smoke finally comes to an end.
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