02 Two young Moose
3 Nature's artwork
02 Hidden in the clouds
01 The glory of fall
Silos/grain terminal and old elevator, Herronton
An old favourite
American Tree Sparrow
A splash of different colour
A colourful walk through the woods
The second owl
Growing on a tree trunk
A birder's first time
Dark chocolate bunny with milk chocolate eyes
Feather finery of a female Mallard
Wood Ducks on a local pond
A beauty from mushroom season
European Starling / Sturnus vulgaris
Growing in the cracks
Peregrine Falcon talons
Hypomyces luteovirens, syn. Hypomyces tulasneanus
Ferruginous Hawk
Rare Long-tailed Duck
Eye contact with a very distant Moose
Osprey on the hunt
Shingled/Scaly Hedgehog fungus / Sarcodon imbricat…
A brief close encounter
Hiding in the shadows
Simplicity
Exshaw Legion memorial
That sinking feeling
Ornamental Cabbage or Ornamental Kale?
Magic hour
Hungry little Chipmunk
Clematis after the rain
Long-eared Owl
Half Moon Garden, Silver Springs
Freedom
Raindrops
Merlin removing dragonfly's wings
Running free
A visit to George's hand
Reflecting the sun at 'golden hour'
Hanging on till the final fall
False Morel fungus
Sharples grain elevator
Oak leaf and insect gall
Great Horned Owl - posting just for the record
Muskrat ripples
Water Smartweed / Polygonum amphibium
One spectacular fall day
Love those little Pika feet
Mushroom at Rock Glacier
Red beauty on a scree slope
Before the snow came
White-tailed Ptarmigan - my first ever!
And here comes the snow
Seedpod of Datura sp.?
Happy Thanksgiving to all Americans, everywhere!
Black eyes and beaks are a give-away
01 Run with the wind
A distant Northern Pygmy-owl
A bright splash of colour
A watchful eye
Colours and textures
Elbow Falls, Kananaskis
Rough-legged Hawk on a hay bale
One of four Moose seen yesterday
The beauty of fall
Lapland Longspur? No, a female Red-winged Blackbi…
Sweet little thing
Turquoise fungi / Blue Stain / Chlorociboria aerug…
A big splash of colour
Love the little one's expression
Gray-crowned Rosy-Finches / Leucosticte tephrocoti…
Aging beauties
Gap Lake
Trumpeter Swan
Up close and personal with a Turkey Vulture
Ring-billed Gull and Bonaparte's Gull
A day of swans and ducks and geese
A patterned sky
Sometimes it's wildlife, sometimes it's .... cows
Red-tailed Hawk
Fungi goblets
Chocolate bunny
When fall colours are just a memory
The Wall Garden - October is Breast Cancer Awarene…
Bark colour after the rain
Trusting Red-breasted Nuthatch
Could these be Bird's-nest fungi?
American Kestrel - or is it a Merlin?
Peninsular area, Lower Kananaskis Lake
Mystery bird - Vesper Sparrow
Deadly duo - Amanita muscaria
Winter wonderland on Plateau Mountain
Fall colours at Silver Springs Botanical Gardens
Juvenile Red-tailed Hawk
Always good for a splash of colour
When winter comes to the mountains
It's that little guy (gal) again
Peninsular area, Lower Kananaskis Lake
Coyote on the hunt
Gotta love those Golden Eagle feathers
Purple Petunias
Grain elevator at Barons
Regal
Katydid on Common Tansy
An old barn with character
Merlin eating a dragonfly
Sunflower going to seed
Alpine Harebell
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Osprey - stuffed and on display
No need to worry about one or two wrinkles
Distant Larch trees in their fall colour
Astilbe
It's beginning to look a lot like winter
Such a handsome bird
Frosted grasses
Almost above the clouds
Passion Flowers
Ice crystals on a mountain top
A vanishing world
As fall colours come to an end
When sane people do crazy things
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Mariposa Lily
A photo that I am posting today, just for the record, as it is rather blurry/grainy. I think I only saw about three of these beautiful Mariposa Lilies during a trip to Waterton Lakes National Park, 8-10 July 2016. It was windy and not good for photographing wildflowers. Last year, 2015, from 19-21 June, we saw thousands of these flowers. It was very windy then, too.
"With its merging landforms, connected ecoregions and its mild, moist, windy climate, Waterton Lakes National Park is an amazing meeting place for an abundant and diverse collection of vegetation.
Despite it's small size (505 sq km) Waterton is graced with over 1000 species of vascular plants . Over half of Alberta's plant species are found in this tiny place. The park's four ecoregions - foothills parkland, montane, subalpine and alpine - embrace forty-five vegetation communities. Sixteen of these are considered significant because they are rare or fragile and threatened.
Waterton also has an unusually high number of rare plants - over 175 are provincially rare (e.g. mountain lady's-slipper, pygmy poppy, mountain hollyhock), and over twenty of these are found only in the Waterton area (e.g. western wakerobin, Lewis' mock-orange, white-veined wintergreen). Over 50 species are rare in Canada (e.g. Bolander's quillwort, Lyall's scorpionweed, Brewer's monkeyflower.)" From Parks Canada website.
www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/ab/waterton/natcul/natcul1/f.aspx
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!
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 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 on the Saturday evening. So, I guess you and I both returned to Calgary feeling really happy : )
"With its merging landforms, connected ecoregions and its mild, moist, windy climate, Waterton Lakes National Park is an amazing meeting place for an abundant and diverse collection of vegetation.
Despite it's small size (505 sq km) Waterton is graced with over 1000 species of vascular plants . Over half of Alberta's plant species are found in this tiny place. The park's four ecoregions - foothills parkland, montane, subalpine and alpine - embrace forty-five vegetation communities. Sixteen of these are considered significant because they are rare or fragile and threatened.
Waterton also has an unusually high number of rare plants - over 175 are provincially rare (e.g. mountain lady's-slipper, pygmy poppy, mountain hollyhock), and over twenty of these are found only in the Waterton area (e.g. western wakerobin, Lewis' mock-orange, white-veined wintergreen). Over 50 species are rare in Canada (e.g. Bolander's quillwort, Lyall's scorpionweed, Brewer's monkeyflower.)" From Parks Canada website.
www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/ab/waterton/natcul/natcul1/f.aspx
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!
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 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 on the Saturday evening. So, I guess you and I both returned to Calgary feeling really happy : )
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