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
Logging piles in the Porcupine Hills
Upper Kananaskis Lake
Arethusa Cirque trail, Kananaskis
One of my favourite views
Kananaskis - a winter wonderland
Batteaux Bay, from Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Batteaux Bay at Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Frank's Glass-bottomed boat, Blue Waters Inn, Tob…
Rocks near Little Tobago island
When storms blow in
A colourful walk through the woods
An old favourite
Silos/grain terminal and old elevator, Herronton
01 The glory of fall
02 Hidden in the clouds
Elbow Falls, Kananaskis
The beauty of fall
Gap Lake
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
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On 5 July 2016, I finally drove down SE of the city to the Frank Lake area. I have missed almost all the shore birds this year and knew that if I didn't go very soon, they would all have left.
As it was, I saw very few birds of any kind. I drove straight to the blind/hide, where everything was quiet, other than a few Coots with their teenage kids, several Ruddy Ducks including a female lying on her nest, a Marsh Wren that I could hear but not see, a couple of Red-winged Blackbirds, maybe three White-faced Ibis flying by, a few Tree Swallows and a rather handsome Barn Swallow. No Soras, no Eared Grebes. As soon as I had left the blind and taken a few steps down the boardwalk, I was totally taken by surprise by a Black-crowned Night Heron that flew overhead, being chased by a small shorebird. The Heron was letting out a very loud 'hoarse scream' that sounded almost human-like. Just managed to get a rapid shot of the Heron before it flew out of camera view, just for my own record. I so rarely see a Night Heron, though I did see and photograph a beautiful juvenile that was hanging out at Lafarge Meadows in Fish Creek Park last year (2015) and a fairly recent, close adult east of Calgary.
From the blind area at Frank Lake, I drove eastwards and eventually came to Mossleigh, where I stopped at the three grain elevators to take photos. Can't remember if I had been there just once or maybe twice before. On the way, I stopped to photograph an old homestead which, until recently, I have usually seen and photographed in winter, not summer.
The weather forecast was for a risk of thunderstorms, though fortunately there was just a tiny bit of short-lived rain. The previous week, there had been tornadoes north and south of Calgary, but there was no Tornado Warning in effect on this day. A great kind of sky when a few of the fields were turning bright yellow from the Canola crops. However, a real challenge for my camera, which had developed another problem - when I tried to focus on something, it went in and out of focus rapidly and 'shuddered', making it most unpleasant to view as well as making it very difficult to see what I was taking. This was not the usual difficulty of getting the camera to focus. Such a pain, especially as I absolutely had to have a working camera for a weekend trip to Waterton.
A few hours later, it was time to return home after several very enjoyable hours out. More of a cloud, scenery and old barn trip than a birding trip, but those of you who know me, know I love photographing all of the above.
A very interesting and informative website, with a lot of information about this row of old elevators, is found at the following link. I find myself returning often to Chris and Connie's site to read about other places they have visited. It's well worth a visit to read about their travels.
www.bigdoer.com/2360/exploring-history/mossleigh-elevators/
According to the website at the above link:
" Update: May 2013. The lineage of the Mossleigh grain elevators has been cleared up. One was built for P&H, one for Pioneer which was later taken over by P&H, and finally one was built for the Searle Grain Company, later UGG and finally P&H. All were built in 1930 but it’s not clear exactly when they changed hands. A forth elevator used to sit here (UGG) but it was destroyed by fire in the 1960s.
Update: September 2013. It’s understood that plans are in place to use the track that remains along the subdivision for some sort of tourist train, operating out of the nearby Aspen Crossing campground/garden centre complex. Time will tell if this will come to fruition – Aspen Crossing as it turns out, does have some rail cars sitting on a section of subdivision track just west of Mossleigh."
Today is THE day - voting for the next U.S. President. May the BEST person win.
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On 5 July 2016, I finally drove down SE of the city to the Frank Lake area. I have missed almost all the shore birds this year and knew that if I didn't go very soon, they would all have left.
As it was, I saw very few birds of any kind. I drove straight to the blind/hide, where everything was quiet, other than a few Coots with their teenage kids, several Ruddy Ducks including a female lying on her nest, a Marsh Wren that I could hear but not see, a couple of Red-winged Blackbirds, maybe three White-faced Ibis flying by, a few Tree Swallows and a rather handsome Barn Swallow. No Soras, no Eared Grebes. As soon as I had left the blind and taken a few steps down the boardwalk, I was totally taken by surprise by a Black-crowned Night Heron that flew overhead, being chased by a small shorebird. The Heron was letting out a very loud 'hoarse scream' that sounded almost human-like. Just managed to get a rapid shot of the Heron before it flew out of camera view, just for my own record. I so rarely see a Night Heron, though I did see and photograph a beautiful juvenile that was hanging out at Lafarge Meadows in Fish Creek Park last year (2015) and a fairly recent, close adult east of Calgary.
From the blind area at Frank Lake, I drove eastwards and eventually came to Mossleigh, where I stopped at the three grain elevators to take photos. Can't remember if I had been there just once or maybe twice before. On the way, I stopped to photograph an old homestead which, until recently, I have usually seen and photographed in winter, not summer.
The weather forecast was for a risk of thunderstorms, though fortunately there was just a tiny bit of short-lived rain. The previous week, there had been tornadoes north and south of Calgary, but there was no Tornado Warning in effect on this day. A great kind of sky when a few of the fields were turning bright yellow from the Canola crops. However, a real challenge for my camera, which had developed another problem - when I tried to focus on something, it went in and out of focus rapidly and 'shuddered', making it most unpleasant to view as well as making it very difficult to see what I was taking. This was not the usual difficulty of getting the camera to focus. Such a pain, especially as I absolutely had to have a working camera for a weekend trip to Waterton.
A few hours later, it was time to return home after several very enjoyable hours out. More of a cloud, scenery and old barn trip than a birding trip, but those of you who know me, know I love photographing all of the above.
A very interesting and informative website, with a lot of information about this row of old elevators, is found at the following link. I find myself returning often to Chris and Connie's site to read about other places they have visited. It's well worth a visit to read about their travels.
www.bigdoer.com/2360/exploring-history/mossleigh-elevators/
According to the website at the above link:
" Update: May 2013. The lineage of the Mossleigh grain elevators has been cleared up. One was built for P&H, one for Pioneer which was later taken over by P&H, and finally one was built for the Searle Grain Company, later UGG and finally P&H. All were built in 1930 but it’s not clear exactly when they changed hands. A forth elevator used to sit here (UGG) but it was destroyed by fire in the 1960s.
Update: September 2013. It’s understood that plans are in place to use the track that remains along the subdivision for some sort of tourist train, operating out of the nearby Aspen Crossing campground/garden centre complex. Time will tell if this will come to fruition – Aspen Crossing as it turns out, does have some rail cars sitting on a section of subdivision track just west of Mossleigh."
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