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
Confused bunny
Great Horned Owl male
Now you see them ... now you don't
Fall colour
Time for an afternoon nap
Bighorn Sheep, number 18
A few craggy peaks
An old favourite
Silos/grain terminal and old elevator, Herronton
01 The glory of fall
02 Hidden in the clouds
3 Nature's artwork
02 Two young Moose
Mariposa Lily
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
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American Tree Sparrow
A poor quality photo, but I don't get to see and photograph these birds very often. This little individual had the feathers on top of its head raised.
Usually, I don't have three long day outings within five days, except during the Christmas Bird Counts, but on 26 October 2016, I was lucky enough to go with friends, Shirley and Anne, for a day's outing SW and SE of the city.
We had a very early start, 7:00 am, and drove west of the city to start with, driving to the far end of Elbow Falls Trail (Highway 66). While at Elbow Falls, we saw a pair of American Dippers flying from rock to rock. They were vocalizing, too, which I had never heard before.
Though there seemed to be very few birds to be seen all day, we were so lucky to see a total of four Moose - two at each of two different locations SW of the city. It is always nice to see a Moose, and to see four in one day was a real treat.
From Elbow Falls Trail, we drove down through the Millarville area and finally ended up east of High River. We found one of the Great Horned Owls that everyone had been following earlier in the year, along with this nearby little American Tree Sparrow. We did see a few Hawks, including a Rough-legged Hawk on a hay bale and a very dark morph Hawk later in the day.
A great day, ladies - thank you so much for inviting me along and thanks so much, Shirley, for driving! Greatly appreciated.
Usually, I don't have three long day outings within five days, except during the Christmas Bird Counts, but on 26 October 2016, I was lucky enough to go with friends, Shirley and Anne, for a day's outing SW and SE of the city.
We had a very early start, 7:00 am, and drove west of the city to start with, driving to the far end of Elbow Falls Trail (Highway 66). While at Elbow Falls, we saw a pair of American Dippers flying from rock to rock. They were vocalizing, too, which I had never heard before.
Though there seemed to be very few birds to be seen all day, we were so lucky to see a total of four Moose - two at each of two different locations SW of the city. It is always nice to see a Moose, and to see four in one day was a real treat.
From Elbow Falls Trail, we drove down through the Millarville area and finally ended up east of High River. We found one of the Great Horned Owls that everyone had been following earlier in the year, along with this nearby little American Tree Sparrow. We did see a few Hawks, including a Rough-legged Hawk on a hay bale and a very dark morph Hawk later in the day.
A great day, ladies - thank you so much for inviting me along and thanks so much, Shirley, for driving! Greatly appreciated.
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