Blue Lettuce / Lactuca tatarica
Mountain Bluebird fledgling
Sticky Purple Geranium / Geranium viscosissimum
Upland Sandpiper / Bartramia longicauda
Time to feed the kids
Bold and beautiful
They can't see me
Bear Grass / Xerophyllum tenax
Roadside wild sunflowers
Upland Sandpiper
Swainson's Hawk
Western Kingbird
Collecting food for her babies
Great Gray Owl on a rainy day
Shakin' all over
A favourite bird to photograph
Alsike Clover / Trifolium hybridum
Eastern Kingbird
Splash of colour on a rainy day
Scabious growing in the wild
Goat's-beard
Happiness is .....
Reaching those faraway feathers
Nest-building Dad
Paintbrush - green flowers, red bracts
Gaillardia with little visitor
Unexpected closeness
Bighorn Sheep - she's a beauty
A bright splash of blue in August
Northern Willowherb / Epilobium ciliatum
Handsome male Bobolink / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Pinedrops / Pterospora - rare
The one-legged stance
A garden in the forest
Fine 'threads' of a mushroom veil
Picked for demonstration purposes - Honey Mushroom…
Sainfoin / Onobrychis viciifolia
Texture
An odd colour in nature
Turkey Vulture
Comb/Branched Hericium / Hericium ramosum
A splash of sunshine
Bluebird memories
Lichen at Bunchberry Meadows Conservation Area
Barn Owl / Tyto alba
The colours of fall
Three insect species on a single flower
Autumn berries
False Dandelion / Agoseris glauca
Brightness on a cloudy day
Larch in fall colour
As fall colours come to an end
Astilbe
Sunflower going to seed
Katydid on Common Tansy
Always good for a splash of colour
Swainson's Hawk
The poser - Wilson's Snipe
Up close and personal with a Turkey Vulture
Aging beauties
An endless feast for a Ladybug
Colours and textures
01 Red-winged Blackbird - female or juvenile
Stately Bear Grass
Pinedrops / Pterospora - rare, Listed S2
Barn Swallow
Ram's Horn Snail shell
Savannah Sparrow
Hope he's one of the lucky ones
Fleabane
Bobolink male
Egyptian Walking Onion
Mountain Death Camas / Zigadenus elegans
Gaillardia
I like the post as much as the bird
False Dandelion / Hypochaeris radicata
Great Gray Owl in late-morning sun
A second's rest, together
Forest refractions on a wet Dandelion : )
Just a little stretch
My first Bald Eagle on a fence post
Brown-headed Cowbird / Molothrus ater
Tattered and torn - and still beautiful
Beautiful wings of a female Mountain Bluebird
Ornamental Spurge / Euphorbia polychroma (Cushion…
Red-winged Blackbird female with bokeh
Female Bobolink / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Couldn't have chosen a better perch myself : )
Red-edged petals
Such good parents
There WAS a fence between us
Everyday beauty
I think he caught a beautiful Tiger Moth : )
Eastern Kingbird
Way down the fence line
Hollyhock buds
Such cute little hands and feet
American Robin in the countryside
Female Mountain Bluebird / Sialia currucoides
Time to preen
White-crowned Sparrow / Zonotrichia leucophrys
Made my day : )
Lots of 'bling'
Herper friend with Wood Frog (and fly)
The purity of white
Flowers of spring
American Robin male
Great Gray Owl in a field of Dandelions
Baby fluff
One of yesterday's two Great Gray Owls
A house to match
Showing off for the females
Snake's head fritillary / Fritillaria meleagris
Red Baneberry
Canada Goose
01 Spic and span
Wilson's Snipe, seen from afar
This Snipe 'doesn't have a leg to stand on'
A little eye-catcher
The joy of spring
Teasels growing wild
One of my favourite birds to photograph
Western Meadowlark
Colour
Nuttall's Sunflower / Helianthus nuttallii
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Paintbush, with a visiting Crab Spider
Indian Paintbrush comes in so many different colours and I enjoy seeing each one. A reminder - the pink parts are bracts, not petals, and the actual flowers are the small, narrow green things. Thought this was a pretty colour, seen on a walk along Red Rock Canyon, Waterton, on 10 July 2016. We continued the walk that took us as far as the Blakiston Falls, where we saw an American Dipper's nest with one baby Dipper visible and either one or both adults flying back to the nest with food. We could also see several patches of Yellow Monkeyflower growing on the rocky wall at the falls and then spotted a couple of Orange False Dandelion flowers as we walked away from the falls. Three great sightings.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castilleja
Four days ago, late afternoon, (I think around 5:15 pm), on 10 July 2015, I arrived back home from my holiday of the year - a two and a half day trip to Waterton Lakes National Park. It was wonderful to again be surrounded by such magnificent scenery, go on a few pleasantly slow walks/hikes with plenty of time to look for, and photograph, wildflowers, insects, and a few birds and animals. Lots of great company with 22 people, some of whom I already knew and lots of new faces, too. The trip was organized by Nature Calgary. Everyone was free to go wherever they wanted each day, but for the two nights, we stayed at the very basic Canyon Church Camp, off the Red Rock Parkway. Dorm-style cabins (about which I will say nothing, lol!), but they do have showers and even flush toilets at the camp. We were fed so well - lots of variety and good food. We were given two breakfasts and two suppers, plus a packed lunch for the two days. Our thanks go out to the lady (can't remember her name, sorry, but she was also there for us in July 2015) who cooked and prepared these meals for us! They were so much enjoyed and greatly appreciated!
"Waterton Lakes National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is also an International Peace Park, and a Biosphere Reserve. No other park in the world has these three designations. Waterton Biosphere Reserve as it is officially called, was designated in 1979 under what is called the internationally recognized "Man and the Biosphere program" of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), that sure is a mouthful. Biosphere Reserves are designed to promote and demonstrate a balanced relationship between people and nature."
www.wediscovercanadaandbeyond.ca/2010/11/red-rock-canyon-...
Thank you SO much, Janet, for driving your friend and me to and from Calgary and around the park some of the time, too. To say that I appreciated it is a huge understatement!! Our thanks, too, to Andrew for organizing this trip so brilliantly, as usual! A great time was had by all. And I am SO happy and relieved that you were finally able to find a bear (and her cub) - yes, we came across the same ones shortly after you saw them. Not sure if they were two of the three I had seen at more or less the same location the previous morning, 9 July 2016. If it was the same female, then her second cub must have been really well hidden in the tangle of bushes and trees. We didn't get a good view, though I did take a handful of photos, including when the cub looked towards us for a split second. I had never seen such a young cub before, so I was thrilled to bits. Can't forget to add my huge thanks for finding me a Lazuli Bunting yesterday, too, at some unearthly hour (well, 7:30 am). No idea how on earth you managed to spot such a small bird from so far away - just a tiny speck in the far, far distance. Also was delighted that you found two Nighthawks flying high overhead at the Nature Conservancy area. So, I guess you and I both returned to Calgary feeling really happy : )
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castilleja
Four days ago, late afternoon, (I think around 5:15 pm), on 10 July 2015, I arrived back home from my holiday of the year - a two and a half day trip to Waterton Lakes National Park. It was wonderful to again be surrounded by such magnificent scenery, go on a few pleasantly slow walks/hikes with plenty of time to look for, and photograph, wildflowers, insects, and a few birds and animals. Lots of great company with 22 people, some of whom I already knew and lots of new faces, too. The trip was organized by Nature Calgary. Everyone was free to go wherever they wanted each day, but for the two nights, we stayed at the very basic Canyon Church Camp, off the Red Rock Parkway. Dorm-style cabins (about which I will say nothing, lol!), but they do have showers and even flush toilets at the camp. We were fed so well - lots of variety and good food. We were given two breakfasts and two suppers, plus a packed lunch for the two days. Our thanks go out to the lady (can't remember her name, sorry, but she was also there for us in July 2015) who cooked and prepared these meals for us! They were so much enjoyed and greatly appreciated!
"Waterton Lakes National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is also an International Peace Park, and a Biosphere Reserve. No other park in the world has these three designations. Waterton Biosphere Reserve as it is officially called, was designated in 1979 under what is called the internationally recognized "Man and the Biosphere program" of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), that sure is a mouthful. Biosphere Reserves are designed to promote and demonstrate a balanced relationship between people and nature."
www.wediscovercanadaandbeyond.ca/2010/11/red-rock-canyon-...
Thank you SO much, Janet, for driving your friend and me to and from Calgary and around the park some of the time, too. To say that I appreciated it is a huge understatement!! Our thanks, too, to Andrew for organizing this trip so brilliantly, as usual! A great time was had by all. And I am SO happy and relieved that you were finally able to find a bear (and her cub) - yes, we came across the same ones shortly after you saw them. Not sure if they were two of the three I had seen at more or less the same location the previous morning, 9 July 2016. If it was the same female, then her second cub must have been really well hidden in the tangle of bushes and trees. We didn't get a good view, though I did take a handful of photos, including when the cub looked towards us for a split second. I had never seen such a young cub before, so I was thrilled to bits. Can't forget to add my huge thanks for finding me a Lazuli Bunting yesterday, too, at some unearthly hour (well, 7:30 am). No idea how on earth you managed to spot such a small bird from so far away - just a tiny speck in the far, far distance. Also was delighted that you found two Nighthawks flying high overhead at the Nature Conservancy area. So, I guess you and I both returned to Calgary feeling really happy : )
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