A friendly greeting
When the clouds roll in
Davisburg Community Church, Alberta
Fancy silo with stairs
Male beauty
Common Redpoll on the wire
Varied Thrush
When winter really was winter
Glenmore Dam, Calgary, Alberta
Downy Woodpecker
Clark's Nutcracker
Focused, listening, watching
Old barn with a different style
Davisburg Community Church, Alberta
A most challenging bird
Snowy Owl - just close enough
Little forest muncher
Beautiful bird, but grainy and blurry photo : (
Watchful eye
Feasting on cone seeds
Narrow strip of light
Yesterday's treat - a Great Gray Owl
Remembering a cold, frosty bird count
Smiling in the snow
A view through the bushes
Well camouflaged, except for those eyes
Little church in the valley
McDougall Memorial United Church
A cluster of red barns
Sunlight on distant peaks
Pine Grosbeak enjoying the sun
Blink .... and spring will be here
And they call this winter (in Alberta)?
Great Gray Owl with its catch
McDougall Memorial United Church
Natural beauty
03 Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
01 Varied Thrush / Ixoreus naevius
Ice carving at Lake Louise
A local Great Horned Owl
Remembering the snow
Hunting for Meadow Voles
Just a splash of colour
Datura flower?
The Famous Five from a distance
Farmyard scene on the prairie
A quick glance
Davisburg Community Church, Alberta
Mountain view on an owl-less day
One of my favourite barns
One of a pair
Got my eyes on you
Dainty little Common Redpoll
Tropical - cultivar of Tillandsia ionantha?
Remembering a winter day
A sky filled with clouds
Rolling hills and distant peaks
Perched on a broken tree trunk
One of my few Snowy Owls of 2016
From days gone by
Popular with the Aphids
A life left behind
Built with love
Aging gracefully
Northern Hawk Owl with Meadow Vole
Varied Thrush - a lifer
A quick glance
Little country church
Pine Grosbeak / Pinicola enucleator
'Superman, where are you now?'
The cross and the moon
A photographer's nightmare
Dainty little Common Redpoll
Swivel-head
Red Squirrel
An unusually pale American Robin
Pretty good camouflage
Little Downy Woodpecker at work
On the hunt
Taking the quieter road
Pine Grosbeak
Short-eared Owl
Eurasian Collared-Dove / Streptopelia decaocto
Much better than a utility pole
Rent a canoe at Emerald Lake
Dainty little Common Redpoll
Yesterday's treat
A great winter for Pine Grosbeaks
Beware those icy fingers
Wearing a heavy coat of hoar frost
Pine Grosbeak / Pinicola enucleator
A fence without an owl
Downy Woodpecker
Sweet little poser
Common Redpoll in the forest
A friendly face in Weaselhead
The beauty of Lake Louise
Common Redpoll
Winter on the prairies
On a distant fence post
Rough-legged Hawk
The old and the new
Common Redpolls
Common Redpoll / Acanthis flammea
Emerald Lake, British Columbia, Canada
Shepard Energy Centre, east of Calgary, Alberta
Vibrant
Hiding
The best colour to see in winter
Winter wonderland with a bonus
Common Loon
Emerald Lake
Chateau Lake Louise and ice castle
Summer greens
A winter walk
Winter beauty
Snow, snow and more snow
Just in time
One of yesterday's treats
Pine Grosbeak / Pinicola enucleator
Modern charm
Clark's Nutcracker
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Winter walk at Beaverdam Flats
Sheltering in the trees
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Common Redpoll / Carduelis flammea
"There was a problem loading your albums". I was able to add to albums with my third photo but I am unable to add the first two images to albums. At least the problem with Stats seems to have now been resolved - not that it's ever accurate, of course.
This photo was taken on 7 February 2016, when I was on an afternoon birding walk with friends, in Weaselhead. I had been on the same walk three days earlier, but as I had missed the previous week's walk at another location, I felt it was OK to go a second time for the walk in Weaselhead. I had been hoping for sunshne, but unfortunately, the weather was little better than three days before, though the sun did come out in the later part of the walk. I came home with about three shots only, ha.
theweaselhead.com/
www.calgary.ca/CSPS/Parks/Pages/Locations/SW-parks/Weasel...
There are supposed to be no feeders in Weaselhead, but certain ones have stayed. A few people leave seeds for the birds and it must be costing a few regulars such a huge amount of money to do so. Feeding the birds does give these folks tons of fresh air, exercise, and the joy of doing something that they love. Unlike bird feeders in people's gardens, these forest feeders do keep the birds in their natural habitat.
"As energetic as their electric zapping call notes would suggest, Common Redpolls are active foragers that travel in busy flocks. Look for them feeding on catkins in birch trees or visiting feeders in winter. These small finches of the arctic tundra and boreal forest migrate erratically, and they occasionally show up in large numbers as far south as the central U.S. During such irruption years, redpolls often congregate at bird feeders (particularly thistle or nyjer seed), allowing delightfully close looks."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Redpoll/id
List of species complied by our leaders:
FFCPPSoc. Birding Weaselhead Natural Area, Calgary. 1:15-3:45pm. Sun. Feb 7/16. Overcast becoming sunny, calm, +2 to +7C.
1. Northern Flicker - 1 heard
2. Downy Woodpecker - 2
3. Hairy Woodpecker - 1
4. Black-billed Magpie - 7
5. Common Raven - 6
6. Black-capped Chickadee - 22
7. Boreal Chickadee - 1
8. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6
9. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2
10. White-winged Crossbill - 3
11. House Finch - heard
12. Pine Siskin - 6
13. Common Redpoll - 8
14. Pine Grosbeak - 15
Red Squirrel - 7
Meadow Vole - 1
This photo was taken on 7 February 2016, when I was on an afternoon birding walk with friends, in Weaselhead. I had been on the same walk three days earlier, but as I had missed the previous week's walk at another location, I felt it was OK to go a second time for the walk in Weaselhead. I had been hoping for sunshne, but unfortunately, the weather was little better than three days before, though the sun did come out in the later part of the walk. I came home with about three shots only, ha.
theweaselhead.com/
www.calgary.ca/CSPS/Parks/Pages/Locations/SW-parks/Weasel...
There are supposed to be no feeders in Weaselhead, but certain ones have stayed. A few people leave seeds for the birds and it must be costing a few regulars such a huge amount of money to do so. Feeding the birds does give these folks tons of fresh air, exercise, and the joy of doing something that they love. Unlike bird feeders in people's gardens, these forest feeders do keep the birds in their natural habitat.
"As energetic as their electric zapping call notes would suggest, Common Redpolls are active foragers that travel in busy flocks. Look for them feeding on catkins in birch trees or visiting feeders in winter. These small finches of the arctic tundra and boreal forest migrate erratically, and they occasionally show up in large numbers as far south as the central U.S. During such irruption years, redpolls often congregate at bird feeders (particularly thistle or nyjer seed), allowing delightfully close looks."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Redpoll/id
List of species complied by our leaders:
FFCPPSoc. Birding Weaselhead Natural Area, Calgary. 1:15-3:45pm. Sun. Feb 7/16. Overcast becoming sunny, calm, +2 to +7C.
1. Northern Flicker - 1 heard
2. Downy Woodpecker - 2
3. Hairy Woodpecker - 1
4. Black-billed Magpie - 7
5. Common Raven - 6
6. Black-capped Chickadee - 22
7. Boreal Chickadee - 1
8. White-breasted Nuthatch - 6
9. Red-breasted Nuthatch - 2
10. White-winged Crossbill - 3
11. House Finch - heard
12. Pine Siskin - 6
13. Common Redpoll - 8
14. Pine Grosbeak - 15
Red Squirrel - 7
Meadow Vole - 1
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