Asters plus fly
Those red, red rocks
Female Harlequin Duck
A closer look
Bison Paddock, Waterton Lakes National Park
Dusky Grouse female
Sea Holly
Yellow-bellied Marmot gathering grasses
Burrowing Owl, after the storm
Adult and juvenile Three-toed Woodpeckers
Lighting up the forest
Visiting the city
There's always a Chickadee
Mom at the nest
I spy with my little eye
Hiding in the moss
Harebell and tiny visitors
Early September snowfall : (
When the mountains turn pink
Three-toed Woodpecker
Sunny reflections
Irresistable
Juvenile Pied-billed Grebe
Jerusalem Artichoke
A change from Marmots
Juvenile Red-winged Blackbird
Menacing
Almost like art
Young Burrowing Owl
The fancy web work of a spider
Just a little mushroom
Coming in to land
Skiff Elevator, after the storm
Butter-&-eggs
Me and my shadow
Garlic
Three-toed Woodpecker
Backlit
Young Beavers at play
View over the Waterton Valley
Owl butterfly
Fall colours of Common Tansy
McDougall Church on a sunny day
Where I was, yesterday
Looking a lot like fall
Watching and waiting
Filling up on berries before winter
Splish, splash, I was taking a bath
Burrowing Owl
Fall colours
Forgetmenot Pond - one of my favourite places
Great dexterity
Supper time for a hungry young Beaver
Listening
A country road in fall colours
Beautiful Leafhoppers - Cuerna alpina
Eye-catching Fireweed
A moment to ponder
On golden pond
Curious, for a brief second
A sight for sore eyes
A youngster having fun
A mighty beast
Cameron Lake, Waterton
Cleaning the BBQ
A glance over the shoulder
Layers of blue
If it looks close, it's because it was!
Purple-flowering Raspberry / Rubus odoratus
Spruce Sawyer / Monochamus scutellatus
Pure joy
At the end of the rainbow
Time to relax
Yesterday's storm clouds near Skiff, Alberta
Yellow-bellied Marmots
Pale Enargia (Enargia decolor)
Red-tailed Hawk with tree bokeh
A touch of iridescence
Police Car Moth
The smoke breathing monster
I see a Sora
Yellow Penstemon
Pika, busily feeding
Cautious mother of twins
Embracing the sun
The Kent (Superman) Farmhouse
Edelweiss
A beautiful display of Fireweed
Oh, so cute
A quick, two-second rest
What could be cuter?
What big feet you have
Shades of brown
Broad-headed bug
Common Branded Skipper on Alfalfa
The twins' Mom
Cabbage White butterfly
Clouds over Frank Lake
One of two little fawns
Mourning Dove
Richness in nature
Female House Finch
Erosion in Dinosaur Provincial Park
Just before it jumped
Tiny Crab Spider
Now that's a whole lot of bull
Glad to see Gladioli
A fancy fungus
The Wilson's Snipe - such a fine bird
Chokecherry / Prunus virginiana
Juvenile Wilson's Phalarope
Police Car Moth and Skipper
The Avocet stretch
Deer in Foxtails
A look of intelligence
For a complete change of colour
Found when I was lost
Individual flower of Showy Milkweed
In need of preservation
Moth on Creeping Thistle
I'm ready to eat you
Western Meadowlark
Sunset over Weaselhead
So perfect
Two of a kind!
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Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel hoping for food
There were a few of these very cute Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrels at Cameron Falls, in Waterton Lakes National Park. There were picnic tables nearby and where there are people, these little creatures know that, if they are "lucky", someone will give them food. I noticed this one doing its best to attract attention.
"Spermophilus lateralis is found in Canada and the United States. It ranges from southeast British Colombia and southwest Alberta, into the western United States as far east as western Colorado and down to northwestern New Mexico and southern California.
Golden-mantled ground squirrels have little positive economic importance to humans. They do however, provide amusement and enjoyment for many campers as they can become quite tame, living at campgrounds and taking food from eager campers hands. (Bartels and Thompson, 1993).
Spermophilus lateralis can have a negative impact on the timber industry. In the fall, coniferous seeds make up a large portion of their diet, and S. lateralis can harm reforestation efforts by eating newly sprouted conifer seeds. They have little impact on agriculture because of habitat selection."
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Spermophilus_late...
A few of the things friends, Cathy and Terry, and I, saw during our three-day trip to Waterton Lakes National Park (26, 27 & 28 August 2014) included fantastic scenery, 4 Black Bears (including one that was swimming in the lake), Bison, Deer (including several that we saw in the village of Waterton, where we stayed the two nights at the clean and friendly Bear Mountain Motel), Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels, Chipmunks, various bird species including the endangered Burrowing Owls (new to all three of us), a few wildflowers, several Yellow-bellied Marmots (a first for me!), a few different insect species, and a family of some species of Grouse (still not sure what kind). I even got the chance to see three or four new-to-me old, wooden grain elevators.
"Spermophilus lateralis is found in Canada and the United States. It ranges from southeast British Colombia and southwest Alberta, into the western United States as far east as western Colorado and down to northwestern New Mexico and southern California.
Golden-mantled ground squirrels have little positive economic importance to humans. They do however, provide amusement and enjoyment for many campers as they can become quite tame, living at campgrounds and taking food from eager campers hands. (Bartels and Thompson, 1993).
Spermophilus lateralis can have a negative impact on the timber industry. In the fall, coniferous seeds make up a large portion of their diet, and S. lateralis can harm reforestation efforts by eating newly sprouted conifer seeds. They have little impact on agriculture because of habitat selection."
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Spermophilus_late...
A few of the things friends, Cathy and Terry, and I, saw during our three-day trip to Waterton Lakes National Park (26, 27 & 28 August 2014) included fantastic scenery, 4 Black Bears (including one that was swimming in the lake), Bison, Deer (including several that we saw in the village of Waterton, where we stayed the two nights at the clean and friendly Bear Mountain Motel), Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels, Chipmunks, various bird species including the endangered Burrowing Owls (new to all three of us), a few wildflowers, several Yellow-bellied Marmots (a first for me!), a few different insect species, and a family of some species of Grouse (still not sure what kind). I even got the chance to see three or four new-to-me old, wooden grain elevators.
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