A favourite old barn
White-winged Crossbill / Loxia leucoptera
Bald Eagle in the Badlands of Alberta
Northern Shrike / Lanius excubitor
On a bitterly cold, hoar frosty day
High wire act
Common Redpoll / Acanthis flammea
The cross and the moon
Davisburg Community Church, Alberta
Common Redpoll on the wire
Northern Pygmy-owl, one year ago
One of my few Snowy Owls of 2016
Yellow and blue
Hiding in the Canola field
Mountain Chickadee
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Old country schoolhouse
Yesterday's Bald Eagle
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Beyond repair
The beauty of erosion
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Rural decay on the prairie
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Happy Canada Day
White-winged Crossbill
Changing from green to white
A view at Marsland Basin
X marks the spot
Old farmyard windmill
A different pose
The sacrifice made by Meadow Voles
Northern Pygmy-owl from January
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Way, way up
Like finding a needle in a haystack
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One of three grain elevators at Mossleigh
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Christmas Eve day on the prairies
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This is where I was yesterday
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Giving me the look
Willow catkin
Campion
Almost ready for the birds
Paper Kite / Idea leuconoe
Such a beautiful sky
Colours of fall
Puccinia monoica, Rust Fungus
White-handed Gibbon
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Marston Creek
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Breathtaking
I'm the king of the castle ...
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Got my sheds in a row
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Mind-boggling
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A delicate touch of hoar frost
This is just a quick shot taken yesterday. The hoar frost looked so pretty, especially when backlit. It was cold yesterday morning, when I met friends for a three hour walk at Griffith Woods. Temperature was -10 to -4°C. Eventually, the warmth of the sun could just be felt, which always makes such a welcome difference.
Not a huge variety of birds - but we saw so many Bohemian Waxwings (a total of 600+) flying overhead and sometimes landing near the tops of very tall Spruce trees.
Canada Goose-110
Mallard-10
Bald Eagle-1 juv.
Merlin-1
Downy Woodpecker-1
Hairy Woodpecker-1
Northern Flicker-2
Northern Shrike-1, chasing a Blue Jay
Blue Jay-4+
Black-billed Magpie-7
Common Raven-3+
Black-capped Chickadee-25
Boreal Chickadee-4+
Red-breasted Nuthatch-1
White-breasted Nuthatch-3
Golden-crowned Kinglet-1
Bohemian Waxwing-600+.
Pine Grosbeak-4
White-winged Crossbill-4+
Common Redpoll-2
House Sparrow-1
On a totally different note, I had a wonderful surprise yesterday. After receiving a notificiation e-mail telling me that someone had 'buzzed' me on the FriendsReunited website that I had joined quite a few years ago, I discovered two words, "Remember me?" To my amazement, it was from someone who had been in the class I taught for one year in England (my very first year of teaching, in a mixed class of Grade 5/6 (equivalent). He had been a delightful, quiet, shy boy and I remembered hm as if it was yesterday : ) I am so impressed with what he has done with his life - I'm still in awe today! Most of his 36 years of working were spent teaching. When he sent me the message yesterday, he had just finished taking part in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - the boat he was on came in third place out of twelve! Such a good, good feeling to hear that a student from so many years ago has used his life so well!
Not a huge variety of birds - but we saw so many Bohemian Waxwings (a total of 600+) flying overhead and sometimes landing near the tops of very tall Spruce trees.
Canada Goose-110
Mallard-10
Bald Eagle-1 juv.
Merlin-1
Downy Woodpecker-1
Hairy Woodpecker-1
Northern Flicker-2
Northern Shrike-1, chasing a Blue Jay
Blue Jay-4+
Black-billed Magpie-7
Common Raven-3+
Black-capped Chickadee-25
Boreal Chickadee-4+
Red-breasted Nuthatch-1
White-breasted Nuthatch-3
Golden-crowned Kinglet-1
Bohemian Waxwing-600+.
Pine Grosbeak-4
White-winged Crossbill-4+
Common Redpoll-2
House Sparrow-1
On a totally different note, I had a wonderful surprise yesterday. After receiving a notificiation e-mail telling me that someone had 'buzzed' me on the FriendsReunited website that I had joined quite a few years ago, I discovered two words, "Remember me?" To my amazement, it was from someone who had been in the class I taught for one year in England (my very first year of teaching, in a mixed class of Grade 5/6 (equivalent). He had been a delightful, quiet, shy boy and I remembered hm as if it was yesterday : ) I am so impressed with what he has done with his life - I'm still in awe today! Most of his 36 years of working were spent teaching. When he sent me the message yesterday, he had just finished taking part in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race - the boat he was on came in third place out of twelve! Such a good, good feeling to hear that a student from so many years ago has used his life so well!
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