An old barn in winter
Yellow-headed Blackbirds in every direction
Willet / Tringa semipalmata
Still standing
Trying to impress the females
Water patterns in matching colours
A prairie song
Ruddy Duck
Brown-headed Cowbirds
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Sparkling feathers
Cinnamon Teal
02 Tree Swallow trio
Escape of the Black-crowned Night Heron
This old house
Lighting up the storm clouds
Love those Canola fields
Barn Swallow
Layers
American Coot interactive display
Is this what I think it is? Yes, a Ferruginous Ha…
Marbled Godwit / Limosa fedoa
Layers of colour
Once a family home
Landscape colours
Juvenile Horned Lark
Roadside wild sunflowers
Swainson's Hawk
Swainson's Hawk
Weathered and patched
Swainson's Hawk in flight
At Mossleigh grain elevators
Storm clouds over Canola
Mossleigh grain elevators
Helmeted Guineafowl / Numida meleagris
Tea, anyone?
A use for old shoes
Across the river
The colours of fall
No need to worry about one or two wrinkles
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Sunflower going to seed
An old barn with character
Grain elevator at Barons
Purple Petunias
Lapland Longspur? No, a female Red-winged Blackbi…
Silos/grain terminal and old elevator, Herronton
An old favourite
American Tree Sparrow
When storms blow in
Under a stormy sky
That sinking feeling
Ornamental Cabbage or Ornamental Kale?
Pretty Mama cat
Black-necked Stilt
Hanging on till the final fall
Seedpod of Datura sp.?
Grain storage in Heronton
A bunch of Christmas owls
Little country church at Dinton
Snowy Owl harassed by Snow Buntings
One of my favourite barns
Can you see what I see?
A Tree Swallow's iridescence
Gathering of the masses
Roof shingles galore
Black-necked Stilt
One of a crowd
Cinnamon Teal pair
Western Meadowlark
Caution - deep water
A tree full of Tree Swallows
Old barn in winter
Into the sun at Frank Lake
Weathered and patched
Northern Shrike / Lanius excubitor
Tangled
Looking across Frank Lake
Mural in Blackie, Alberta
Ice patterns
Bubbles at Frank Lake
The return of the Swans
Passing the time
Fence post with a difference
Blackie Grain Terminal, Alberta
Built with love
A life left behind
From days gone by
One of my favourite barns
Davisburg Community Church, Alberta
Farmyard scene on the prairie
Just a splash of colour
A cluster of red barns
Remembering a cold, frosty bird count
A fine old barn
Davisburg Community Church, Alberta
Old barn with a different style
Fancy silo with stairs
Davisburg Community Church, Alberta
When the clouds roll in
A friendly greeting
Aging gracefully
Little country church
'Superman, where are you now?'
The cross and the moon
Time for an old barn again
One of my favourite birds to photograph
Beware those icy fingers
Home of the Snowshoe Hare
Reflection through the fog
Little red barn on the prairie
Ice is nice
With a view of the mountains and the prairies
Long-billed ice bird
Christmas is a fun time for a kitten
Old homestead and barn
Textures of an old homestead
Tea, anyone?
A favourite little country church
The only one
A frosty prairie view
Old-aged matching colours
One of 9 Great Horned Owls
Through the frost to the bird blind
New roof and a fresh coat of paint
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I was SO tired yesteday, 3 May 2016, after staying up the whole night on Sunday, in order to go to a Sharp-tailed Grouse lek (communal dance ground) early on Monday morning. Happened to come across this already post-processed photo, so decided to use it.
Looks like this old homestead is home at least to one Pigeon. One advantage of old barns and homesteads being left standing is that they can provide a home or shelter to wildlife, such as Red Foxes, Skunks, and birds, especially Pigeons and Great Horned Owls.
This old homestead was seen on 12 February 2015, which was spent SE of the city, with friends Cathy and Terry. They picked me up around 7:00 am and I think I was home somewhere around 7:30 pm, after a great day of searching for owls, barns, and anything else that caught our eye. The weather was beautiful, though cloudy part of the day. The temperature reached a brief high of 13C around 1:00 and 2:00 pm, which felt so good, especially for mid-winter.
Many of the roads we travelled along were roads that I had driven on myself, some of them many times. A few of the roads were new to me, which was a treat, including a "trail" that was so deeply rutted and snow-covered that I'm amazed that we ever got out of there! This track and another backroad that was new to me led to a few old barns that I really appreciated being shown. It's strange how some fields in the whole area were more or less bare and yet others had a lot of snow covering the stubble, with piles of snow lining the edges of the road.
As far as wildlife was concerned, we saw 11 owls - 8 Snowy Owls and 3 Great Horned Owls. The Snowies, other than one perched on a "Wrong Way" sign, were all extremely distant, so my photos are of white specks in a nice setting, ha. If I hadn't been with two people who can spot "everything", I'm sure that I would never have found most of these owls!
Other birds included a flock of Snow Buntings plus two individuals that were actually perched on a fence. Another bird we saw was a beautiful Prairie Falcon perched on an electricity pylon. Also a group of Grey Partridge that suddenly flew before we had noticed them.
Looks like this old homestead is home at least to one Pigeon. One advantage of old barns and homesteads being left standing is that they can provide a home or shelter to wildlife, such as Red Foxes, Skunks, and birds, especially Pigeons and Great Horned Owls.
This old homestead was seen on 12 February 2015, which was spent SE of the city, with friends Cathy and Terry. They picked me up around 7:00 am and I think I was home somewhere around 7:30 pm, after a great day of searching for owls, barns, and anything else that caught our eye. The weather was beautiful, though cloudy part of the day. The temperature reached a brief high of 13C around 1:00 and 2:00 pm, which felt so good, especially for mid-winter.
Many of the roads we travelled along were roads that I had driven on myself, some of them many times. A few of the roads were new to me, which was a treat, including a "trail" that was so deeply rutted and snow-covered that I'm amazed that we ever got out of there! This track and another backroad that was new to me led to a few old barns that I really appreciated being shown. It's strange how some fields in the whole area were more or less bare and yet others had a lot of snow covering the stubble, with piles of snow lining the edges of the road.
As far as wildlife was concerned, we saw 11 owls - 8 Snowy Owls and 3 Great Horned Owls. The Snowies, other than one perched on a "Wrong Way" sign, were all extremely distant, so my photos are of white specks in a nice setting, ha. If I hadn't been with two people who can spot "everything", I'm sure that I would never have found most of these owls!
Other birds included a flock of Snow Buntings plus two individuals that were actually perched on a fence. Another bird we saw was a beautiful Prairie Falcon perched on an electricity pylon. Also a group of Grey Partridge that suddenly flew before we had noticed them.
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