Himalayan Blue Poppy
The beauty of an invasive weed
Red-winged Blackbird
Where Dinosaurs used to roam
Showy lady's-slipper
Throat-tickling supper
Blowing in the wind
Snacking on grass
Like scoops of strawberry & peach ice-cream
A beautiful display of Elephant's Head
Mother Nature at her best
Good friends
Delicate flower of the Prickly Pear
A breathtaking landscape
Thoughts of anything cold
12 baby Tree Swallows!
Dad on the pylon
Little hearts in a row
Vesper Sparrow
I saw a Sora
Driving in a sea of gold
White-faced Ibis - very rare in Alberta
Taking a good look
Eared Grebe with young one
Majestic Castle Mountain
Wilson's Snipe - what a beauty
Tiny Bishop's Cap seeds
Like a giant sandcastle
Monarch beauty
I'm in awe, no matter how many I see
Come into my parlour, said the spider to the (butt…
Middle Lake, Bow Valley Provincial Park
Baby Barn Owl : )
Burrowing Owl
Wild European Rabbit
Vibrant pink
Rust fungus on Western White Clematis
A Black Bear sighting from May
An attractive Dragonfly perch
Venus Flytrap flower
My favourite Thistle
Showy Milkweed buds
Spirit
Yellow on gold
Should I stay or should I go?
Gorgeous iridescent feathers
Clasped
Reflected in the eye of an owl
Two of a kind!
So perfect
I'm ready to eat you
Here comes the rain
In need of preservation
Individual flower of Showy Milkweed
Found when I was lost
For a complete change of colour
A look of intelligence
The Avocet stretch
Police Car Moth and Skipper
Juvenile Wilson's Phalarope
Chokecherry / Prunus virginiana
The Wilson's Snipe - such a fine bird
A fancy fungus
Wild Strawberry
A colourful rocky spot
Yes, yes, YES!
Shootingstar
Handsome male
One less Grasshopper in the world
Almost as good as sunshine
Plain and simple
The beauty of Irises
Great choice of fence post
The land where the Dinosaurs roamed
Badlands of the Dinosaurs
The culprit
Black Bear busy feeding
Globeflower / Trollius chinensis
A good poser
Little jewel of the forest
Castle Mountain
Blue-green iridescence
Colour for a rainy day
Shaking off the raindrops
Accustomed to people
Swainson's Hawk on a rainy day
Beautiful Sacred Lotus
Blue-eyed Grass
A two-legged Wilson's Snipe : )
Shocking PINK
A close look
Feeling blue
Drama queen of the Lily pond
Not interested in us
One of nature's wonders
Time to catch supper
Ring a ring o' roses
Details in black
Pink and purple beauty
Beyond the treetops
Our wonderful Alberta skies
Wilson's Snipe
A highlight of our May Species Count
A different kind of perch
Takes a lot of grass and leaves to fill a Bear
Not missing a thing
A disappearing act
Reflected beauty
Happily feeding
Majestic Castle Mountain
So handsome
Happiness is ... playing in a puddle
Through the Rocky Mountains
Here one minute, gone the next
Lavendula
Through a fancy window
The intelligent Common Raven
A real treat from the weekend
A sky bursting with clouds
Paper Kite
Birders, doing what they do best
Iridescence
A matching stripe
The balance of land and sky
Great Mormon / Papilio memno
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Photographed this beautiful female Mountain Bluebird on 7 June 2014, when I went for a drive along the backroads SW of the city. Though the females don't show the bright blue of the males, they have such a wonderful mix of more subtle colours. They really do have a beauty of their own. This female had just fed a mouthful of insects to her babies in the nesting box.
In Bluebirds, the blue colour is produced by the structure of the feather - there is no blue pigment. "Tiny air pockets in the barbs of feathers can scatter incoming light, resulting in a specific, non-iridescent color. Blue colors in feathers are almost always produced in this manner. Examples include the blue feathers of Bluebirds, Indigo Buntings, Blue Jay's and Steller's Jays."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mountain_Bluebird/id
www.jstor.org/discover/pgs/index?id=10.2307/4077277&i...
Photographed this beautiful female Mountain Bluebird on 7 June 2014, when I went for a drive along the backroads SW of the city. Though the females don't show the bright blue of the males, they have such a wonderful mix of more subtle colours. They really do have a beauty of their own. This female had just fed a mouthful of insects to her babies in the nesting box.
In Bluebirds, the blue colour is produced by the structure of the feather - there is no blue pigment. "Tiny air pockets in the barbs of feathers can scatter incoming light, resulting in a specific, non-iridescent color. Blue colors in feathers are almost always produced in this manner. Examples include the blue feathers of Bluebirds, Indigo Buntings, Blue Jay's and Steller's Jays."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mountain_Bluebird/id
www.jstor.org/discover/pgs/index?id=10.2307/4077277&i...
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