White beauty
Avenue of trees at Baker Park
Cosy little birdhouse
A friendly visitor
A new find on a bitterly cold day
Remembering the warmth of summer
Triple treat
Fenced in
Find the owl
High wire act
Carnivorous Sundew
Snow in the forecast - need colour
Fond memories of a popcan-sized owl
Mystery rock
Pine Grosbeak
Follow the fence line
A winter day in southern Alberta
Short-eared Owl
A sweet face
Spikes of ice
Clark's Nutcracker / Nucifraga columbiana
Now THIS is winter!
Pine Grosbeak / Pinicola enucleator
Sheltering in the trees
Painted Tongue / Salpiglosis
Winter walk at Beaverdam Flats
"Canoe with three warriors", by Team Sakha from Ru…
Clark's Nutcracker
Modern charm
Pine Grosbeak / Pinicola enucleator
One of yesterday's treats
Persian Cornflower / Centaurea dealbata?
Just in time
Snow, snow and more snow
Winter beauty
A winter walk
Home of the Snowshoe Hare
Summer greens
Chateau Lake Louise and ice castle
Emerald Lake
Common Loon
Busy little bee
Winter wonderland with a bonus
The best colour to see in winter
Hiding
Vibrant
Shepard Energy Centre, east of Calgary, Alberta
Emerald Lake, British Columbia, Canada
Common Redpoll / Acanthis flammea
Common Redpolls
The old and the new
Rough-legged Hawk
On a distant fence post
Winter on the prairies
Vole brains for her afternoon snack
Common Redpoll
The beauty of Lake Louise
Primula denticulata / Drumstick Primula
A friendly face in Weaselhead
Common Redpoll in the forest
Sweet little poser
Downy Woodpecker
One day closer to spring
Farm cat watching for farm mice
Reflection through the fog
A different style
Red-sided Garter Snake scales
A tiny owl from the past
Shoo Fly / Nicandra physalodes
Pine Grosbeak in pretty light
Old barns in heavy frost
Christmas remnants
Get well, Rachel
Little red barn on the prairie
Winter chill
Enjoying the morning sun
Hoping for food
Heritage tree from 1907, at Carburn Park
On a bitterly cold, hoar frosty day
A splash of much-needed red
The donkeys with reflector eyes
Desolate
A fine old barn
The gathering
So pretty against the snow
Farm friends
Pine Grosbeak female
Foothills and mountains
A typical pose for the White-breasted Nuthatch
Another day closer to spring
Outlined in frost
Keeper of the farmyard
In the bleak midwinter
Pine Grosbeaks adding colour to our winter
Golden Eagle along the fenceline
Pine Grosbeak / Pinicola enucleator
A road less travelled
Each one different from the others
Guarding the barn
One of five White-tailed Deer
Pine Grosbeak / Pinicola enucleator
Fish Creek Park New Year's Day Bird Count
Northern Shrike / Lanius excubitor
At the end of the day
Winter colours
A touch of frost
A toothy smile
Little cabin in the woods
Remnant of the old days
Lovable, but shy
The rule of red
Hairy Woodpecker
Ice is nice
Eurasian Collared-Doves
Downtown Calgary bathed in sunrise pink
With a view of the mountains and the prairies
White-winged Crossbill
Bohemian Waxwings
Long-billed ice bird
The beautiful Badlands of Alberta
Old homestead and barn
Bald Eagle in the Badlands of Alberta
Lily macro
Textures of an old homestead
Sunrise start to a birding day in Calgary
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Rusty Blackbird
In the early afternoon of 7 November 2014, I drove over to the east end of Fish Creek Provincial Park and was lucky enough to see two of these beautiful Rusty Blackbirds. IUCN Status: Vulnerable. I very rarely see these birds – in fact, I think I have only ever seen one once before and no photos. It was interesting to watch this one pick up and then toss aside endless fallen leaves along the edge of a tiiny creek, to check underneath them for food. Eventually, it did find a big, fat, juicy water worm of some kind, and ate it. As you can see from the photo, this bird is camouflaged quite well in those surroundings.
“The Rusty Blackbird is one of North America’s most rapidly declining species. The population has plunged an estimated 85-99 percent over the past forty years and scientists are completely puzzled as to what is the cause. They are relatively uncommon denizens of wooded swamps, breeding in the boreal forest and wintering in the eastern U.S. In winter, they travel in small flocks and are identified by their distinctive rusty feather edges and pallid yellow eyes.” From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/rusty_blackbird/id
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_blackbird
rustyblackbird.org/
“The Rusty Blackbird is one of North America’s most rapidly declining species. The population has plunged an estimated 85-99 percent over the past forty years and scientists are completely puzzled as to what is the cause. They are relatively uncommon denizens of wooded swamps, breeding in the boreal forest and wintering in the eastern U.S. In winter, they travel in small flocks and are identified by their distinctive rusty feather edges and pallid yellow eyes.” From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/rusty_blackbird/id
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_blackbird
rustyblackbird.org/
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