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
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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
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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
A gleam in the eye
When storms blow in
Hike on Erik Butters' beautiful land
False Dandelion / Hypochaeris radicata
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
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Yesterday, 27 June 2016, I made my usual drive SW of the city, mainly to check on the last pair of Mountain Bluebirds that I have been watching. The previous pair had already disappeared from their nest box after their babies had all fledged. I missed this, as I hadn't been able to fit in a drive over there. This time, I was hoping to see the final pair one more time, but when I arrived, there was no sign of either adult, so I guess they, too, have left. Always makes me sad when I know my days of photographing them has come to an end, at least for this year. At least their small neighbours, a pair of Savannah Sparrows, were still hanging around, and there were endless Red-winged Blackbirds everywhere I went.
There was no sign of any Bobolinks, either, and I was beginning to wonder if this was going to be one of those 'dreaded' trips where there was nothing to photograph. Thankfully, this Wilson's Snipe came out of hiding just when I was driving along the usual road. I'm always happy to see a Snipe - decided to take a more distant shot as a change from all the close photos that I tend to take. Love the fence post with its little tufts of lichens.
"These plump, long-billed birds are among the most widespread shorebirds in North America. They can be tough to see thanks to their cryptic brown and buff coloration and secretive nature. But in summer they often stand on fence posts or take to the sky with a fast, zigzagging flight and an unusual “winnowing” sound made with the tail." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/wilsons_snipe/id
"Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata) is a small, stocky shorebird. This species was considered to be a subspecies of the Common Snipe (G. gallinago) until 2003 when it was given its own species status. Wilson's Snipe differs from the latter species in having a narrower white trailing edge to the wings, and eight pairs of tail feathers instead of the typical seven of the Common Snipe. Its common name commemorates the American ornithologist Alexander Wilson." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson's_snipe
According to Fisher and Acorn's book, "Birds of Alberta", "the common Snipe is both secretive and well camouflaged, so few people notice it until it flushes suddenly from a nearby grassy tussock. As soon as the Snipe takes to the air, it performs a series of quick zigzags - an evasive maneuver designed to confuse predators. Because of this habit, Snipes were among the most difficult birds to shoot (in the days when shorebirds were hunted for sport), and skilled sportsmen were known as "snipers" - a term later adopted by the military."
youtu.be/Z16CUdX2g5Q
There was no sign of any Bobolinks, either, and I was beginning to wonder if this was going to be one of those 'dreaded' trips where there was nothing to photograph. Thankfully, this Wilson's Snipe came out of hiding just when I was driving along the usual road. I'm always happy to see a Snipe - decided to take a more distant shot as a change from all the close photos that I tend to take. Love the fence post with its little tufts of lichens.
"These plump, long-billed birds are among the most widespread shorebirds in North America. They can be tough to see thanks to their cryptic brown and buff coloration and secretive nature. But in summer they often stand on fence posts or take to the sky with a fast, zigzagging flight and an unusual “winnowing” sound made with the tail." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/wilsons_snipe/id
"Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata) is a small, stocky shorebird. This species was considered to be a subspecies of the Common Snipe (G. gallinago) until 2003 when it was given its own species status. Wilson's Snipe differs from the latter species in having a narrower white trailing edge to the wings, and eight pairs of tail feathers instead of the typical seven of the Common Snipe. Its common name commemorates the American ornithologist Alexander Wilson." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson's_snipe
According to Fisher and Acorn's book, "Birds of Alberta", "the common Snipe is both secretive and well camouflaged, so few people notice it until it flushes suddenly from a nearby grassy tussock. As soon as the Snipe takes to the air, it performs a series of quick zigzags - an evasive maneuver designed to confuse predators. Because of this habit, Snipes were among the most difficult birds to shoot (in the days when shorebirds were hunted for sport), and skilled sportsmen were known as "snipers" - a term later adopted by the military."
youtu.be/Z16CUdX2g5Q
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