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
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Pretty while it lasted
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
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Vancouver Island Marmot / Marmota vancouverensis
This large Vancouver Island Marmot wanted to stay inside, so I wasn't able to get a good shot. The sunlight just reached his nose : ) However, I felt it was important to show it, as this is Canada's most endangered species. Seen on a special visit to the Calgary Zoo Ranch, also called the Devonian Wildlife Conservation Centre, on 25 September. This location, south of the city, spreads over 128 hectares of land and includes a large pond often used by migrating birds.
"When a species comes to the brink of extinction, it takes the dedicated and combined effort of many individuals and institutions to rescue it. In total, 65 Vancouver Island marmot pups were born this year at four partnering facilities across Canada including the Calgary Zoo, the Toronto Zoo, Mountain View Conservation & Breeding Centre in Langley, B.C. and the Tony Barrett Mt. Washington Recovery Centre on Vancouver Island.
The Vancouver Island marmot is listed as endangered under the Species at Risk Act (SARA) and the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) as well as a Priority 1 Species under the British Columbia Framework. Found only on Vancouver Island, their population remains too small and fragmented to recover without intervention and assistance from captive breeding programs.
Reported June 30th, 2009: "From a population low of less than 30 wild Vancouver Island Marmots in 2003, the population is expected to reach over 200 marmots in the wild by the end of
this summer."
"When a species comes to the brink of extinction, it takes the dedicated and combined effort of many individuals and institutions to rescue it. In total, 65 Vancouver Island marmot pups were born this year at four partnering facilities across Canada including the Calgary Zoo, the Toronto Zoo, Mountain View Conservation & Breeding Centre in Langley, B.C. and the Tony Barrett Mt. Washington Recovery Centre on Vancouver Island.
The Vancouver Island marmot is listed as endangered under the Species at Risk Act (SARA) and the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) as well as a Priority 1 Species under the British Columbia Framework. Found only on Vancouver Island, their population remains too small and fragmented to recover without intervention and assistance from captive breeding programs.
Reported June 30th, 2009: "From a population low of less than 30 wild Vancouver Island Marmots in 2003, the population is expected to reach over 200 marmots in the wild by the end of
this summer."
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