Life on a leaf stalk
Tarnished Plant Bug / Lygus lineolaris
Tropical leaves
Greater Fringed Gentian / Gentianopsis crinita
A metallic look
Echinacea
Cladonia Lichen sp.
The power of bokeh
Sandhill Crane / Grus canadensis
Sitting pretty
Barrier Lake
Huddled
Fall colours near the Bow River
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Northern Pygmy-owl
Light
Long-eared Owl
Cliff Swallow nests
Blue-eyed Grass / Sisyrinchium montanum
Tiny Lemon Drops
Aged beauty
African Spur Tortoise / Geochelone sulcata
A close up view
Blue-eyed grass seedpods
Peruvian Lily
Gulls, gulls and more gulls
Two of the same
Sowthistle buds
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A healthy meal of greens
It's all about the bug
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Looking good for its age
The pumpkin month
American Crow
Hanging
Nodding Thistle / Carduus nutans
Disappearing world
Boreal Chickadee
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The kind of day it's been
Pretty while it lasted
Vancouver Island Marmot / Marmota vancouverensis
Milbert's Tortoise Shell / Aglais milberti
Life on a leaf stalk
Banded Orange / Dryadula phaetusa
Glorious autumn colour
Yellow Columbine / Aquilegia flavescens
Rainbow of a smaller kind
Remembering Canola
A lucky shot
Cladonia sp.
Master of stealth
Bearberry / Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
Standing tall
Amur Maple
I'm hungry and waiting ...
Illumination
Fire and ice
I'm a Boreal Chickadee, not a Black-capped Chickad…
Little moth of the forest
When the petals have fallen
: )
A different Coral Fungus
White Columbine
Scentless Chamomile / Matricaria perforata
And away they go ...
Beauty
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Silver threads
Lacewing / Chrysopidae sp.
How's this for colour?
The twist
Soft-leaf Muhly grass / Muhlenbergia richardsonis
Reaching out to the sun
Nodding Thistle/Musk Thistle / Carduus nutans
A little find in the forest
When the weight of the world ...
Hooker's Thistle / Cirsium hookerianum
Lachnum sp.
Whooping Crane / Grus americana
Earthstar
Reflection
I guess we do have SOME red : )
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Highbush Cranberry / Viburnum trilobum
Bokeh shower
: )
Round and round ...
Dainty bells
The queen of fall colour
Cladonia Lichen
Long time no see
Out of the darkness - for the Chilean miners and t…
It's all about RED
White Angelica
Spores on moss capsules
The Sickener / Russula emetica
Black Cup Fungus / Plectania melastoma
Bokeh paradise
Spectacular
Northern Gentian
Naked Mitrewort / Mitella nuda
Scarlet Butterfly Weed / Gaura coccinea
Puffball
Ladybug on Goat's-beard
Blurry, but fascinating
Not a fungus, or a bird, or a flower ...
Dotted Blazingstar
Little beauty
Horseshoe Canyon
Rattlesnake Plantain Orchid / Goodyera repens
Bronzebells
Saddle fungus
Slime mold
Not just a pretty seedpod
Louisiana Broomrape / Orobanche ludoviciana
Blue
Comb Tooth / Hericium coralloides
Prostrate Knotweed / Polygonum aviculare
This little light of mine ...
Spider's tunnel web
The hiding game
Slime mold
Blue Lettuce / Lactuca tatarica
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Whooping Crane / Grus americana
One of the Whooping Cranes at the Calgary Zoo Ranch, south of the city, seen when a group of us had the privilege of visiting four days ago. Tremendous work is being done there to breed several very endangered species, especially the fascinating Whooping Crane. These birds are kept in enclosures and any interaction with the staff is done using white "Crane costumes". The Whooping Crane's lifespan is estimated to be 22 to 24 years in the wild. Many thanks to Crane Keeper, Dwight Knapik, for showing us around for the afternoon and filling us with interesting information. By the way, these birds don't stay still - they are constantly on the move and are a challenge to photograph : )
In 1985, the Devonian Wildlife Conservation Centre (DWCC) opened. Known as the "Zoo Ranch," this land south of Calgary is home to the breeding facilities for the endangered Whooping Cranes, Vancouver Island Marmots, Przwalksi wild horses and Zebra.
"The only remaining flock of wild Whooping Cranes, the wintering population in coastal Texas, reached a low of 15 birds in the winter of 1941-42, and hovered between the low 20s and mid 30s over the next two decades. Efforts to locate the flock's breeding grounds intensified following World War II. Evidence of breeding was first reported in 1954, when several adults and pre-fledged juveniles were observed in Wood Buffalo National Park (WBNP) in Northwest Territories, Canada. Researchers were able to locate the first nests the following year. The inaccessibility of the breeding grounds, protection of the wintering grounds, and extensive public education campaigns have contributed to the population's increase to its current level."
www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/cranes/grusamer.htm
www.bringbackthecranes.org/recovery/recv2009.html#Captive
www.whoopingcrane.com/FLOCKSTATUS.HTM
In 1985, the Devonian Wildlife Conservation Centre (DWCC) opened. Known as the "Zoo Ranch," this land south of Calgary is home to the breeding facilities for the endangered Whooping Cranes, Vancouver Island Marmots, Przwalksi wild horses and Zebra.
"The only remaining flock of wild Whooping Cranes, the wintering population in coastal Texas, reached a low of 15 birds in the winter of 1941-42, and hovered between the low 20s and mid 30s over the next two decades. Efforts to locate the flock's breeding grounds intensified following World War II. Evidence of breeding was first reported in 1954, when several adults and pre-fledged juveniles were observed in Wood Buffalo National Park (WBNP) in Northwest Territories, Canada. Researchers were able to locate the first nests the following year. The inaccessibility of the breeding grounds, protection of the wintering grounds, and extensive public education campaigns have contributed to the population's increase to its current level."
www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/birds/cranes/grusamer.htm
www.bringbackthecranes.org/recovery/recv2009.html#Captive
www.whoopingcrane.com/FLOCKSTATUS.HTM
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