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Yellow-headed Blackbird
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Common Merganser
Arethusa Cirque, Kananaskis
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Watch out for its stranglehold
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Am I a Ladybug?
Slime mold
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Happy Christmas, everyone!
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One-flowered Wintergreen / Moneses uniflora
Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park
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Happy Valentine's Day
See my nasal tufts?
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Unidentified
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Another birdwatcher
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Picklejar Lakes trail, Kananaskis
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A reward for facing my fears : )
Eriogonum species (flavum?)
Bad feather day
Possibly Laccaria proxima?
Little pink bells
Avian perfection
Hidden amongst the branches
Cold stare
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The definition of cuteness
Hills and peaks of Alberta
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Beauty on the power pole
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Ice is nice
Afternoon sun at Gap Lake
Beauty never fades
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West Thumb Geyser Basin, Yellowstone
Little bird, big world
Winter magic down by the creek
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Spring delight
Three's a crowd
Banded Orange, Dryadula phaetusa
Wilson's Snipe
Red Panda
Such a treat
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The magic of ice
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Happy Birthday, Rachel, 12-12-12
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Yellow-headed Blackbird from the archives
Always a happy sight
Santa's on his way
Can't beat a red barn
Some things grow old gracefully
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Gyrfalcon - what a treat!
Two days ago, on a last-minute decision to drive NW of Calgary, I was so lucky to come across this beautiful Gyrfalcon. I didn't notice it in time to stop closer, so I ended up taking some fully zoomed (later, heavily cropped) shots of it way down the road. I wasn't sure what it was until I got home to my bird book and Google, but then reckoned it could be a Gyrfalcon. Thanks to friend, Tony, a superb birder who puts up with my occasional bird ID questions, I now know that it is, indeed, a Gyrfalcon. A handful of times over the last few years, I have been out with various friends and someone will call out "Gyrfalcon" and I see a fast-flying "shape" flying high in the sky, but this is the first time I've really "seen" one. About 45 minutes later, I was staring into the eyes of a beautiful Great Gray Owl : ) All this, plus sunshine - made a great afternoon on 22 March 2013.
"The largest falcon in the world, the Gyrfalcon breeds in arctic and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere. It preys mostly on large birds, pursuing them in breathtakingly fast and powerful flight .... May range from nearly pure white to dark gray to black, with variable barring and streaking; most are gray." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/gyrfalcon/id
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrfalcon
"The largest falcon in the world, the Gyrfalcon breeds in arctic and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere. It preys mostly on large birds, pursuing them in breathtakingly fast and powerful flight .... May range from nearly pure white to dark gray to black, with variable barring and streaking; most are gray." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/gyrfalcon/id
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrfalcon
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