Today's walk in Fish Creek Park
Coyote catching a Meadow Vole
Rural Alberta
Lyalta elevator
Beautiful barn, rural Alberta
Friends
Side by side
Chinook Arch over the prairie
Lingering sunrise colour
Rural splash of colour
Taken in 2017, but now GONE!
Day 8, Quebec trip
Day 8, Sand Dunes, Quebec
Day 8, Sand Dunes, Quebec
Day 8, coast at Sand Dunes, Quebec
Day 8, on the way to Les Bergeronnes, Quebec
Day 8, Les Bergeronnes, Quebec
Day 8, Église Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Désir, Les Bergero…
Day 8, coast NE of Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 8 coast NE of Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 8, coast NE of Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 8, Quebec
Day 8, Quebec
Fine old house
Shepard plant with sunburst
Snowy Owl #2
Blurry shot for the record
Old house and shed
One of three Snowy Owls today
Natural and man-made clouds
A 'new' old homestead
White-tailed Deer resting in the morning sun
One Snow Goose among the Canada Geese
White-tailed Deer resting
Beauty on a foggy day
Quonset in fog
Hoar frost
Foggy day
Fog in the countryside
Old red barn on a foggy day
Horse and hoar frost
Rust and hoar frost
Ditch reflections
A pyramid of hay bales
Minimalism on a foggy day
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E and NE of Calgary for Snowy Owls, 10 January 2019
E and NE of Calgary for Snowy Owls, 10 January 2019
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Snowy Owl #2
This morning, 11 January 2019, I met up with nine friends for a walk at Shannon Terrace, Fish Creek Park. It was a very slow morning for birds, but after about two and a half hours, we had found 11 species of bird.
The other six photos I posted tonight were taken yesterday, 10 January 2019. Unfortunately, the Snowy Owl - the second of three that I found - decided to perch on top of such an ugly insulator atop a utility pole.
The first time I drove east to look for Snowy Owls was on 5 January, which turned out to be a day of dreadul, dense fog. I quickly gave up on the idea of searching for these beautiful Snowies that day. Today, the sun was shining, so I reckoned I would try again. Not much snow to be seen in the fields - sort of a patchwork of stubble and snow, which would make finding distant owls rather difficult. I like my Snowies close, ha, so I tend not to search the fields, keeping my eyes on the road instead.
The first two owls were on the same road, quite a distance apart. Couldn't believe my luck! Once I was back on a main road, I suddenly decided to take one of the back roads and was amazed to come across a third Snowy Owl. This one was skittish and took flight when I was stopped way, way down the road. The first owl simply stayed put on its insulator. The second owl stayed for a while, but then suddenly spotted movement way across the field. Off it flew and I could see it swoop down and then land on a distant fence post. From several highly zoomed-in photos, I could see strands of dried grass in its talons and it started preening, presumably after catching and eating some poor little Meadow Vole.
I am not on my computer very much at the moment, because I am just so fed up of it freezing constantly and I have to keep starting all over again. If I am able, I really have to get back to editing and posting more photos from our Ontario and Quebec trip back in May 2018. Not sure I am going to be able to finish them before my next trip, but at least I can get further ahead than I am now.
The other six photos I posted tonight were taken yesterday, 10 January 2019. Unfortunately, the Snowy Owl - the second of three that I found - decided to perch on top of such an ugly insulator atop a utility pole.
The first time I drove east to look for Snowy Owls was on 5 January, which turned out to be a day of dreadul, dense fog. I quickly gave up on the idea of searching for these beautiful Snowies that day. Today, the sun was shining, so I reckoned I would try again. Not much snow to be seen in the fields - sort of a patchwork of stubble and snow, which would make finding distant owls rather difficult. I like my Snowies close, ha, so I tend not to search the fields, keeping my eyes on the road instead.
The first two owls were on the same road, quite a distance apart. Couldn't believe my luck! Once I was back on a main road, I suddenly decided to take one of the back roads and was amazed to come across a third Snowy Owl. This one was skittish and took flight when I was stopped way, way down the road. The first owl simply stayed put on its insulator. The second owl stayed for a while, but then suddenly spotted movement way across the field. Off it flew and I could see it swoop down and then land on a distant fence post. From several highly zoomed-in photos, I could see strands of dried grass in its talons and it started preening, presumably after catching and eating some poor little Meadow Vole.
I am not on my computer very much at the moment, because I am just so fed up of it freezing constantly and I have to keep starting all over again. If I am able, I really have to get back to editing and posting more photos from our Ontario and Quebec trip back in May 2018. Not sure I am going to be able to finish them before my next trip, but at least I can get further ahead than I am now.
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