Hike on Erik Butters' beautiful land
I like the post as much as the bird
Yellow Warbler male
Yellow lady's-slipper
One of my favourite views
Spotted Sandpiper
Flycatcher sp. - Willow or Alder Flycatcher
Yesterday's summer hail
Gaillardia
Mountain Death Camas / Zigadenus elegans
Middle Lake, Bow Valley Provincial Park
Egyptian Walking Onion
And then there were only THREE!
Bobolink male
Showy Milkweed / Asclepias speciosa
Willow Flycatcher
Fleabane
Hope he's one of the lucky ones
Kalm's Lobelia / Lobelia kalmii
Savannah Sparrow
Ram's Horn Snail shell
Escape of the Black-crowned Night Heron
This old house
Lighting up the storm clouds
Love those Canola fields
Barn Swallow
Layers
Ladybug larva on Showy Milkweed
American Coot interactive display
Time to feed the kids
Bold and beautiful
They can't see me
Weathered and patched
Longhorn
At Mossleigh grain elevators
Collecting food for her babies
Great Gray Owl on a rainy day
A favourite bird to photograph
Storm clouds over Canola
Eastern Kingbird
Goat's-beard
Mossleigh grain elevators
Reaching those faraway feathers
Loved by Monarch butterflies
Nest-building Dad
Sharp-tailed Grouse / Tympanuchus phasianellus
House Wren at the Ellis Bird Farm
Handsome male Bobolink / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Mustard White butterfly / Pieris oleracea
Predator with prey
Lovage / Levisticum officinale
The one-legged stance
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Hen and rooster at the Saskatoon Farm
Bluebird memories
Leisurely swim
Chipping Sparrow / Spizella passerina
A few of the bird houses at Ellis Bird Farm
Swainson's Hawk
The poser - Wilson's Snipe
An endless feast for a Ladybug
01 Red-winged Blackbird - female or juvenile
Bobolink / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Great Gray Owl in late-morning sun
A second's rest, together
A forest find
Bobolink male / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Wild Rose in the rain
Forest refractions on a wet Dandelion : )
Just a little stretch
It's the Bobolink again
My first Bald Eagle on a fence post
Brown-headed Cowbird / Molothrus ater
Chilean Flamingo
A distant Bobolink
Tattered and torn - and still beautiful
Beautiful wings of a female Mountain Bluebird
Ornamental Spurge / Euphorbia polychroma (Cushion…
Red-winged Blackbird female with bokeh
A closer view - male Bobolink
Clay-colored Sparrow / Spizella pallida
Female Bobolink / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Such an elegant bird
Sleeping down at the pond
Grasshopper Sparrow / Ammodramus savannarum - OR i…
Couldn't have chosen a better perch myself : )
Red-edged petals
Such good parents
There WAS a fence between us
Spotted Coralroot / Corallorhiza maculata
Meadow Creek area, Benchlands
Everyday beauty
Why this bird is called a Grosbeak
Northern Shoveler pair
I think he caught a beautiful Tiger Moth : )
Yesterday's treat - a Bobolink
Needed a change of colour
Eastern Kingbird
Along a country back road
Almost ready to fledge
Mom and her new baby
Way down the fence line
Hollyhock buds
Such cute little hands and feet
American Robin in the countryside
Cow Parsnip / Heracleum maximum
Female Mountain Bluebird / Sialia currucoides
Barn Swallow
Wilson's Snipe hiding in the grass
Male and female Purple Martins / Progne subis
Treat of the day - Black Morel
Camouflaged Wood Frog
Time to preen
Great Horned Owl owlet, Ellis Bird Farm
Red-necked Grebe
I'm baaack ...
Dame's rocket
Busy Barn Swallow
Collecting food for his babies
White-crowned Sparrow / Zonotrichia leucophrys
Gaillardia on red
Made my day : )
Purple Martin condominium
Farm seed elevator, Ellis Bird Farm, Alberta
Lots of 'bling'
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False Dandelion / Hypochaeris radicata
Two days ago, on 26 June 2016, a fair-sized group of people (those in this photo and others who were exploring the hillside) spent the morning walking on the property belonging to Erik Butters, out past Cochrane, NW of Calgary. This previous photo shows what Erik's land is like - rolling, open hills and areas of woodland, with the Rocky Mountains in the distance. This event was the 8th Annual Flora & Fauna Fundraising for Ghost River Watershed Outing.
Fortunately, I knew how to drive to this distant location, so I was able to pick up friend Dorothy and off we went together. We allowed plenty of time to get there, just in case of heavy traffic or else we saw something interesting en route. This meant that there was time for me to stop and take a few photos of a Llama in someone's field, a couple of beautiful Longhorn cattle lying down and a small herd of maybe half a dozen Elk that we saw way off in the distance.
I think everyone was more than ready for lunch by the time our hike was over! Going to our destination was all uphill, which I normally avoid at all cost. Coming down used less energy, but painful knees felt every step on the way down : )
Around 1:00 pm, Erik and his partner provided a great BBQ for those of us from Calgary and for the people who had joined us from elsewhere. As always, the food was delicious! Thank you so much, both of you! Amazingly, the sun shone and there was no rain, despite the weather forecast.
Fortunately, I knew how to drive to this distant location, so I was able to pick up friend Dorothy and off we went together. We allowed plenty of time to get there, just in case of heavy traffic or else we saw something interesting en route. This meant that there was time for me to stop and take a few photos of a Llama in someone's field, a couple of beautiful Longhorn cattle lying down and a small herd of maybe half a dozen Elk that we saw way off in the distance.
I think everyone was more than ready for lunch by the time our hike was over! Going to our destination was all uphill, which I normally avoid at all cost. Coming down used less energy, but painful knees felt every step on the way down : )
Around 1:00 pm, Erik and his partner provided a great BBQ for those of us from Calgary and for the people who had joined us from elsewhere. As always, the food was delicious! Thank you so much, both of you! Amazingly, the sun shone and there was no rain, despite the weather forecast.
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