Lacewing
Iris
Split gill
Barrier Lake, Kananaskis
Bleeding Heart
Such a cutie
Western Toad
Red Paintbrush / Castilleja miniata
Southern Red-backed Vole
Small-flowered Sand-Verbena
Rosy Pussytoes/Antennaria rosea
There's hope yet
Greater Scaup - or Lesser?
Blue-eyed Grass
Mushroom magic
Against the light
Yellow Sweetclover / Melilotus officinalis
Fireweed / Epilobium angustifolium
Insect casing
Invasive beauty
Earthstar / Geastrum sp.
Tiny world on a leaf
Black Currant Pie, anyone?
Tartarian Honeysuckle /Lonicera tatarica
Hopper on Broadleaf Gumweed / Grindelia squarrosa
One of my favourite flowers
Clasping-leaved Twisted-stalk / Streptopus amplexi…
Warbling Vireo
Lemon Drops / Bisporella citrina
Tall Larkspur seed capsules / Delphinium glaucum
Western Stoneseed seeds / Lithospermum ruderale
Shaggy Mane / Coprinus comatus
White Water Crowfoot / Ranunculus aquatilis
Russula
Stiff Yellow Paintbrush / Castilleja lutescens
Rust on a leaf
Overlapping - and, oh, so temporary
Zebra Longwing / Heliconius charithonius
Russian Thistle / Salsola kali
Marbled Orbweaver / Araneus marmoreus
A tight little community
Stunning little beauty (Aculepeira)
Is this a Shield Bug?
Upright Prairie Coneflower / Ratibida columnifera…
Alone
Shrubby Cinquefoil
Little blue spider
Poppy red
Bluer than the sky
Bow Valley Provincial Park
A mix of colours
Heaven on earth
Eyelash fungus
Stink Bug
Blue Lettuce / Lactuca tatarica
Slime mold
The hiding game
Spider's tunnel web
This little light of mine ...
Prostrate Knotweed / Polygonum aviculare
Comb Tooth / Hericium coralloides
Blue
Louisiana Broomrape / Orobanche ludoviciana
Horsetail/Equisetum
Northern Bedstraw
Fireweed
Eastern Kingbird
Tiny Spotted Coralroot flower
Heart-leaved Arnica/Arnica cordifolia
In the light
The work of ants
Popp(y)ing off the page
Different!
A real stunner
Barn Swallows
Harebells
Pretty near perfect
Menzies' Catchfly
Kiss me ...
Climbing to Plateau Mountain
Rocky Mountain Sandwort / Minuartia austromontana
Perfection in small size
Insect on tiny Moss Gentian
Bird's-nest Fungi
Subarctic Darner female and nymph casing
Sticky fingers
The metallic look
In the spotlight
The upward climb
First Picklejar Lake
Fungus rosette
Young Red-winged Blackbird
Parry's Townsendia / Townsendia parryi
Kalm's Lobelia / Lobelia kalmii
Living in a tiny world
A dose of yellow
Dew on Sundew
One-sided Wintergreen
Leopard Lacewing
Coral fungus
Fringed Gentian / Gentiana procera
Wood Frog
Crepidotus
Moss Campion
Sticky False Asphodel seedpods / Tofieldia glutino…
Bog Candle
The same but different
Eyelash fungus / Scutellinia scutellata
Hanging on to youth
Deep in the forest
Boreal Chorus Frog
Crested Beardtongue
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Mushroom in the ditch
Blue-eyed Grass
House Sparrow fledgeling
Tree Brain and Jelly
Hoary Cress
Colorado Rubber Plant
Swallowtail
Unfurling
Eastern Kingbird
Mom
Early arrivals
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Tree Swallow nest
Recently, I posted a photo of a different nesting box, changing the ID from Mountain Bluebird to Tree Swallow nest. The previous photo had just one (maybe two) feathers. The photo today shows a far more typical Tree Swallow nest, with an assortment of feathers arranged in a circle around the eggs. These nests really are beautifully made. Normally, of course, I never get the chance to take photos looking into nests, and would never get that close to a nest even if I had the chance. When a person approaches a nest of any kind, you leave a trail of human scent, which can attract predators to the nest, so nest photos are always to be discouraged. However, I was kindly invited to go along on a friend's Bluebird route mid-June, so was able to hold my camera over the top of the wooden nesting box, hold my breath, and click. Meanwhile, Sue was checking the number of eggs, or young ones, and recording all the necessary information.
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