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
After our first major snowstorm
Greater White-fronted Geese / Larus glaucoides
Bow Lake on a cloudy day
Reflected peaks
Friends at Bow Lake
Remembering winter
Goodbye, winter - so glad you are gone!
They're back : )
They call this spring?
A rural "winter" scene
American White Pelicans, Nikon Coolpix B700
Old barn in spring snow
American White Pelicans with my old Panasonic FZ20…
American White Pelicans, zoomed with Nikon B700
Western Meadowlark
The challenges of being a birder
Hooded Merganser male
A favourite old barn
When the world turns white
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
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Early fall, looking (and feeling) like winter
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More snow fell last night and it is still snowing very lightly this morning, 9 October 2018. Shortly before noon, our temperature is -4C (windchill -9C). This photo was taken at Elliston Park, with its blanket of snow.
Last night, I finally took another look at the photos I took way back in May, on our two-week trip to Point Pelee (Ontario) and Tadoussac (Quebec). I have only edited and posted photos from the first day there and a few from our second morning. I really need to get busy on this huge task and I think I may have to post far too many photos at a time. Will do this later in a day or at night, when most people are probably off Flickr. Many photos are simply "for the record" shots and not of good quality. I will see how long I can keep this up, though, as editing and posting photos does not help with the inflammation in my shoulder rotator cuffs. Nor does holding up a camera and taking photos!!
On 6 October 2018, I joined a few birding friends for another day out east of the city. The weather was beautiful, and so different from the freezing cold trip that was held about a week earlier. As usual on these birding trips, almost every bird was far, far away.
A bird I was happy to see was a Thayer's Gull. I was thinking that I had never seen one before, or at least not to get a photo. However, I checked my photostream and discovered a photo of a juvenile that I took on 25 March 2018. The Thayer's Gull is now called an Iceland Gull. "The darker-winged “Thayer’s” gull of the west used to be considered a different species; the two were lumped in 2017."
Like many people, I just don't "do" Gulls. A lack of interest in them does seem to be fairly widespread, On this day, however, our leader, Terry Korolyk, who is a Gull expert (along with tremendous knowledge on hybrids and all birds/wildlife), found several huge flocks of various Gulls at different locations, along with other bird species, including a few more Rusty Blackbirds (whose numbers are declining). A delight to see a few distant Swans, a Wilson's Snipe, Greater White-fronted Geese, Yellowlegs and an assortment of other shorebirds and waterfowl.
Thank you, Terry, for yet another enjoyable and interesting trip. Thank you, also, for the ride.
Last night, I finally took another look at the photos I took way back in May, on our two-week trip to Point Pelee (Ontario) and Tadoussac (Quebec). I have only edited and posted photos from the first day there and a few from our second morning. I really need to get busy on this huge task and I think I may have to post far too many photos at a time. Will do this later in a day or at night, when most people are probably off Flickr. Many photos are simply "for the record" shots and not of good quality. I will see how long I can keep this up, though, as editing and posting photos does not help with the inflammation in my shoulder rotator cuffs. Nor does holding up a camera and taking photos!!
On 6 October 2018, I joined a few birding friends for another day out east of the city. The weather was beautiful, and so different from the freezing cold trip that was held about a week earlier. As usual on these birding trips, almost every bird was far, far away.
A bird I was happy to see was a Thayer's Gull. I was thinking that I had never seen one before, or at least not to get a photo. However, I checked my photostream and discovered a photo of a juvenile that I took on 25 March 2018. The Thayer's Gull is now called an Iceland Gull. "The darker-winged “Thayer’s” gull of the west used to be considered a different species; the two were lumped in 2017."
Like many people, I just don't "do" Gulls. A lack of interest in them does seem to be fairly widespread, On this day, however, our leader, Terry Korolyk, who is a Gull expert (along with tremendous knowledge on hybrids and all birds/wildlife), found several huge flocks of various Gulls at different locations, along with other bird species, including a few more Rusty Blackbirds (whose numbers are declining). A delight to see a few distant Swans, a Wilson's Snipe, Greater White-fronted Geese, Yellowlegs and an assortment of other shorebirds and waterfowl.
Thank you, Terry, for yet another enjoyable and interesting trip. Thank you, also, for the ride.
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