Cute as always
November in Weaselhead
Creature of the forest
White-winged Crossbill / Loxia leucoptera
A friendly face in Weaselhead
Common Redpoll in the forest
Sweet little poser
Downy Woodpecker
Pine Grosbeak / Pinicola enucleator
A great winter for Pine Grosbeaks
Dainty little Common Redpoll
Little Downy Woodpecker at work
Red Squirrel
Dainty little Common Redpoll
Pine Grosbeak / Pinicola enucleator
Common Redpoll / Carduelis flammea
Little forest muncher
Wild Blue Columbine / Aquilegia brevistyla
Tall Lungwort / Mertensia paniculata
Rough-Fruited Fairybells / Prosartes trachycarpa
Wild Blue Columbine / Aquilegia brevistyla
Dainty little Common Redpoll
Downy Woodpecker
Wooden bridge at Weaselhead
Least Chipmunk
Least Chipmunk
Wild Blue Columbine / Aquilegia brevistyla
Cow Parsnip / Heracleum maximum
Such cute little hands and feet
Eastern Phoebe with fishing line
One of many
Common Merganser family
Lost, in Weaselhead
Coyote crossing the frozen Elbow River
With more big storms to come
Common Redpoll female
A beautiful day in Weaselhead
Common Redpoll
Wolf Willow / Elaeagnus commutata
Calliope Hummingbird / Selasphorus calliope
Yellow Lady's-slipper / Cypripedium parviflorum
Cedar Waxwing / Bombycilla cedrorum
White-winged Crossbill
Snow with a touch of hoar frost
Changing from green to white
Dark-eyed Junco / Junco hyemalis
Pine Grosbeak male / Pinicola enucleator
Water colour version
White-winged Crossbill / Loxia leucoptera
Canada Violet / Viola canadensis
Yellow Lady's-slipper
Flashing his neck feathers
Eastern Phoebe / Sayornis phoebe
American Goldfinch female with Sunflower seed
A lovely splash of colour
Spiny Rose Gall
Well, hello, little Chickadee
American Goldfinch in the snow
A natural snow catcher
Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel
Eastern Phoebe
Calliope Hummingbird
Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel
One quick shot
Gotta love those Chickadees
Fluffed up for winter
Stealthy Coyote
House Finch enjoying the sun's warmth
Snowshoe Hare in hiding
Weaselhead, September 2010
Looking towards Weaselhead
Mushroom!!!
Ochre Tooth Fungus
Pine Grosbeak
An old friend
Prairie Gentian
Tartarian Honeysuckle
Black Meadowhawk
Young Pine Grosbeak
Spring is here!
See my nasal tufts?
Little seed muncher
Downy Woodpecker male
Sitting pretty
Hanging upside down
A glimpse through the trees
Quick, quick shot
Parasitic One-flowered Broomrape / Orobanche unifl…
Insect paradise
It takes two to tango
Police Car Moth / Gnophaela vermiculata
Multi-coloured Saskatoon berries
Townsend's Solitaire
Common Redpoll
Common Redpoll
Wolf Willow/Silverberry / Elaeagnus commutata
'Twas a cold, cold day for us all
Fluffed-up Common Redpoll
Fluffed
Watching the watchers
Pine Grosbeak
Goat's-beard
Bohemian Waxwings
A bunch of polypores
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White-winged Crossbill
On 16 November 2015, it would have been my older daughter’s birthday. Feeling that I needed to get out for a while, I met up with a group of friends for a three-hour walk in Weaselhead. It had snowed a bit overnight and, though it was mostly sunny, the temperature was around 1°C. This meant winter jacket and winter boots complete with ice-grabbers as the paths were very icy and slippery. 27 species of bird were seen. Only two or three people saw what they reckoned was an owl (Great Horned) in flight from the forest. A Snow-shoe Hare in its white, winter coat was just about visible, hiding in a tangle of bushes.
We had quite good views of several White-winged Crossbills. These are such colourful birds - at least the males are. The females are a greenish yellow, but still beautiful. Their bills are crossed, to enable them to get the seeds out of the cones. They tend to land high up in tall trees, hence a zoomed and cropped image.
“A medium-sized finch of the boreal forest, the White-winged Crossbill is adapted for extracting seeds from the cones of coniferous trees. It moves large distances between years tracking the cone crop from place to place.” From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/white-winged_crossbill/id
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-barred_Crossbill
1.Canada Goose-200+
2.Swan sp.,-7
3.Mallard-4
4.Common Goldeneye-1 f.
5.Northern Goshawk-1
6.Rough-legged Hawk-1
7.Killdeer-1
8.Ring-billed Gull?-1
9.Great Horned Owl-1
10.Downy Woodpecker-4+
11.Hairy Woodpecker-1
12.Northern Flicker-2
13.Blue Jay-4+
14.Black-billed Magpie-20
15.Common Raven-2+
16.Black-capped Chickadee-50+
17.Boreal Chickadee-4
18.Red-breasted Chickadee-1
19.White-breasted Nuthatch-1
20.Bohemian Waxwing-100+
21.Dark-eyed Junco-1+
22.Pine Grosbeak-10+
23.House Finch-1
24.Red Crossbill-1 f.
25.White-winged Crossbill-75+
26.Common Redpoll-30+
27.House Sparrow-6
We had quite good views of several White-winged Crossbills. These are such colourful birds - at least the males are. The females are a greenish yellow, but still beautiful. Their bills are crossed, to enable them to get the seeds out of the cones. They tend to land high up in tall trees, hence a zoomed and cropped image.
“A medium-sized finch of the boreal forest, the White-winged Crossbill is adapted for extracting seeds from the cones of coniferous trees. It moves large distances between years tracking the cone crop from place to place.” From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/white-winged_crossbill/id
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-barred_Crossbill
1.Canada Goose-200+
2.Swan sp.,-7
3.Mallard-4
4.Common Goldeneye-1 f.
5.Northern Goshawk-1
6.Rough-legged Hawk-1
7.Killdeer-1
8.Ring-billed Gull?-1
9.Great Horned Owl-1
10.Downy Woodpecker-4+
11.Hairy Woodpecker-1
12.Northern Flicker-2
13.Blue Jay-4+
14.Black-billed Magpie-20
15.Common Raven-2+
16.Black-capped Chickadee-50+
17.Boreal Chickadee-4
18.Red-breasted Chickadee-1
19.White-breasted Nuthatch-1
20.Bohemian Waxwing-100+
21.Dark-eyed Junco-1+
22.Pine Grosbeak-10+
23.House Finch-1
24.Red Crossbill-1 f.
25.White-winged Crossbill-75+
26.Common Redpoll-30+
27.House Sparrow-6
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