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 : ) Intense Northern Pygmy-owl / Glaucidium gnoma Bursting Loving the light Winter magic Mini-icicle Keep warm, everybody! Russula Crystal, designed by Mother Nature Crystal edging Red-breasted Nuthatch Sharp-tailed Grouse Northern Pygmy-owl Rest in peace, my brother, John One of a kind Two for the prICE of one Cosmos Great Orange Tip chrysalises / Hebomoia Glaucippe Merlin female / Falco columbarius Northern Pygmy-owl Summer colours Northern Pygmy-owl Middle Lake, Bow Valley Provincial Park Coils Frosted Winter magic Barrow's Goldeneye / Bucephala islandica For Joan, Suzanne, Margit and Sheila Whooping Crane Friends for life Tiny pinwheel of the forest Mushrooms Thank you so much, everyone! Face to face Shaggy Manes Tiny Lemon Drops / Bisporella citrina Siberian Tiger Vibrance Peruvian Lily / Alstroemeria Six more months to go Penstemon procerus Anemone The kind of day it's been A sprinkling of snow sparkles Boreal Chickadee Disappearing world Nodding Thistle / Carduus nutans Hanging American Crow The pumpkin month Looking good for its age Lighting up the darkness It's all about the bug A healthy meal of greens Frills and gills Sowthistle buds Two of the same Gulls, gulls and more gulls Peruvian Lily Blue-eyed grass seedpods A close up view African Spur Tortoise / Geochelone sulcata Aged beauty Tiny Lemon Drops Blue-eyed Grass / Sisyrinchium montanum Cliff Swallow nests Long-eared Owl Light Northern Pygmy-owl Desire and passion Fall colours near the Bow River Huddled Barrier Lake Sitting pretty Sandhill Crane / Grus canadensis The power of bokeh Cladonia Lichen sp. Echinacea A metallic look Greater Fringed Gentian / Gentianopsis crinita Tropical leaves Tarnished Plant Bug / Lygus lineolaris Life on a leaf stalk Whooping Crane / Grus americana A different Coral Fungus White Columbine Scentless Chamomile / Matricaria perforata And away they go ... Beauty Bird's-nest Fungi by the hundreds 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