The beauty of fall
Elbow Falls, Kananaskis
02 Hidden in the clouds
01 The glory of fall
Silos/grain terminal and old elevator, Herronton
An old favourite
A colourful walk through the woods
When storms blow in
Under a stormy sky
Simplicity
Two winters ago
Magic hour
Freedom
Running free
Reflecting the sun at 'golden hour'
Sharples grain elevator
Oak leaf and insect gall
One spectacular fall day
Before the snow came
And here comes the snow
Old barn at the Ellis Bird Farm
A few craggy peaks
Just like winter
A favourite mountain slope
Grain storage in Heronton
Plateau Mountain, Kananaskis
Following the fenceline
Before winter officially arrives
One of my favourite barns
A lone Larch in fall colour
Can you see what I see?
Jagged little peaks
Before the snow
TV's "Heartland" series location
Red's the best in winter
A beautiful start to a day
Sunrise colour over the mountain peaks
New Year's Day Bird Count
Nanton Christmas Bird Count
Winter walking
Snow turns something ordinary into beautiful
Our beautiful Alberta
An old, red beauty
Afternoon light on the foothills
Winter in Kananaskis
Down by the river on a frosty morning
Jazzing up the old silos - with Pacman
Modern - but I like it
Filtered
The peace of a prairie farm - my main photo today
The beautiful mountains of Alberta
Non-wild horses in a wild landscape
Winter in the Nanton, Alberta, area
Lying on a bed of hoarfrost
With a little filtered help
Winter textures
Old prairie barn
Dreaming of spring
A view from the Porcupine Hills
Old times remembered
Cattle drive - and a few old barns and sheds
Stubble pattern
Skull on a fence post
A day of swans and ducks and geese
A patterned sky
Sometimes it's wildlife, sometimes it's .... cows
When fall colours are just a memory
Bark colour after the rain
Peninsular area, Lower Kananaskis Lake
Fall colours at Silver Springs Botanical Gardens
When winter comes to the mountains
Peninsular area, Lower Kananaskis Lake
An old barn with character
Distant Larch trees in their fall colour
It's beginning to look a lot like winter
Almost above the clouds
A vanishing world
When sane people do crazy things
Distant haze
The beauty of Kananaskis along Highway 40
Autumn colours at the stormwater pond
Glorious colours of fall
Periglacial feature, Plateau Mountain
Looking towards top of Plateau Mountain
The long hike down the mountain
Our beautiful foothills on an overcast day
Across the river
Bunchberry Meadows, Nature Conservancy of Canada
Bunchberry Meadows, Nature Conservancy
The arrival of fall
The long road south
McDougall Memorial United Church
Lower Kananaskis Lake at Peninsular
Peninsular, Lower Kananaskis Lake
One of my favourite meadows
Mt. Buller, Buller Pond, Kananaskis
A view from Mt. Shark
Above the tree line
Mt Lorette Ponds, Kananaskis
Mossleigh grain elevators
Fading into the distance
Storm clouds over Canola
Gottlob Schmidt's Antelope Hill Ranch
Antelope Hill Provincial Park
Weathered and patched
01 Middle Lake, Bow Valley Provincial Park
Yellow and blue
Beautiful old house in the hills
Landscape colours
Layers of colour
The Grad Barn 2016
The difference the sun makes
Prince of Wales hotel, Waterton
Challenges of a photographer
Wildflowers galore at the Bison Paddock
Waterton Lakes National Park
Layers
Love those Canola fields
Lighting up the storm clouds
This old house
Escape of the Black-crowned Night Heron
Ram's Horn Snail shell
And then there were only THREE!
Middle Lake, Bow Valley Provincial Park
One of my favourite views
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Gap Lake
Gap Lake is just a small lake along Highway 1a, about 8 km east of the town of Canmore. Friends and I stopped there yesterday, 23 October 2016, for just a quick visit, to check for any kind of bird life. Gave me just enough time to take a quick, zoomed shot of the distant mountain peaks and the autumn colours edging the lake. Mt. Lougheed and, on the right, the Windtower, which is a local name for this offically unnamed peak that is actually a lower buttress of the four summits of Mount Lougheed.
Below, I will add the helpful, detailed report from our leader, Howard Heffler, and the eBird list compiled by Nimali S., with thanks to both of them!
"Thirteen participants met at Assumption School at 8:30 AM and spent the day birding several locations west of Calgary. We first stopped at Jumping Pound pond. There were both species of swan and a few puddle ducks. We made another quick stop at Sibbald ponds where there were six swans. It appeared to be a family of five Trumpeters and one lonely Tundra.
The (apparent) Tundra was all white but had a mostly pink bill. It was being harassed by the others so we concluded (speculated) was a second year bird that still had a pink bill (or maybe a first year bird that had turned white prematurely??). It was smaller than the others and was obviously an outcast. If anyone has any thoughts they would be most welcome.
It was cold and windy at Bow Valley Park and a quick walk on Flowing Waters trail proved fruitless so we moved to the Seebe dam. Again there were a few swans and ducks but the cold winds seemed unfriendly to birds and birders alike. In Exshaw it was still cold and windy and there were few birds. However, a flock of about 45 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch was the highlight of the day. These are such active birds and their feeding habits are fun to watch as the flock seems to roll forward along the ground as the birds in the back leap-frog the leaders.
The Canmore Visitor Center was an excellent (warm and comfortable) bathroom and lunch stop. Harvie Heights offered a few boreal birds but not as many as hoped for. An interesting note for future planning is that the community prohibits bird feeders until November 1st in an effort to reduce conflicts with bears or cougars.
Thanks to Nimali Seneviratne for keeping track of species and doing the eBird postings. The combined list for the day (including species seen while driving) was:
Snow Goose 1
Canada Goose 63
Trumpeter Swan 37
Tundra Swan 30
American Wigeon 3
Mallard 40
Common Merganser 1
Common Loon 2
Western Grebe 1
Rough-legged Hawk 2
Rock Pigeon 9
Downy Woodpecker 1
Gray Jay 2
Clark's Nutcracker 3
Black-billed Magpie 6
Common Raven 2
Black-capped Chickadee 6
Mountain Chickadee 7
Boreal Chickadee 1 (heard only)
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch 45
White-winged Crossbill 1
House Sparrow 2
Howard Heffler
Calgary"
Below, I will add the helpful, detailed report from our leader, Howard Heffler, and the eBird list compiled by Nimali S., with thanks to both of them!
"Thirteen participants met at Assumption School at 8:30 AM and spent the day birding several locations west of Calgary. We first stopped at Jumping Pound pond. There were both species of swan and a few puddle ducks. We made another quick stop at Sibbald ponds where there were six swans. It appeared to be a family of five Trumpeters and one lonely Tundra.
The (apparent) Tundra was all white but had a mostly pink bill. It was being harassed by the others so we concluded (speculated) was a second year bird that still had a pink bill (or maybe a first year bird that had turned white prematurely??). It was smaller than the others and was obviously an outcast. If anyone has any thoughts they would be most welcome.
It was cold and windy at Bow Valley Park and a quick walk on Flowing Waters trail proved fruitless so we moved to the Seebe dam. Again there were a few swans and ducks but the cold winds seemed unfriendly to birds and birders alike. In Exshaw it was still cold and windy and there were few birds. However, a flock of about 45 Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch was the highlight of the day. These are such active birds and their feeding habits are fun to watch as the flock seems to roll forward along the ground as the birds in the back leap-frog the leaders.
The Canmore Visitor Center was an excellent (warm and comfortable) bathroom and lunch stop. Harvie Heights offered a few boreal birds but not as many as hoped for. An interesting note for future planning is that the community prohibits bird feeders until November 1st in an effort to reduce conflicts with bears or cougars.
Thanks to Nimali Seneviratne for keeping track of species and doing the eBird postings. The combined list for the day (including species seen while driving) was:
Snow Goose 1
Canada Goose 63
Trumpeter Swan 37
Tundra Swan 30
American Wigeon 3
Mallard 40
Common Merganser 1
Common Loon 2
Western Grebe 1
Rough-legged Hawk 2
Rock Pigeon 9
Downy Woodpecker 1
Gray Jay 2
Clark's Nutcracker 3
Black-billed Magpie 6
Common Raven 2
Black-capped Chickadee 6
Mountain Chickadee 7
Boreal Chickadee 1 (heard only)
Red-breasted Nuthatch 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch 45
White-winged Crossbill 1
House Sparrow 2
Howard Heffler
Calgary"
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