Longhorn cattle
The barn cat gang
Shooting in the rain
Joy for a deep-freeze day
Winter on the farm
Pine Grosbeak in winter sunshine
Following the fenceline
Beautiful farm cat
Posing nicely
Beginning to burst
Ever watchful
White-winged Crossbills
Poor quality, but of interest
A touch of blue
Female Mountain Bluebird with lunch for her babies
Northern Hawk Owl from 2016
Northern Hawk Owl
Meadow Vole for a tasty snack
Summer colour
Atop a utility pole
Red-winged Blackbird female or juvenile
Goat's-beard with visitor
Decorating the base of a tree
Seedhead wisps
Great Gray Owl, focused
Showing off its gills
Pinedrops
One of my favourite views
Unidentified fungus
A distant shot from my archives
Balancing act
When the world turns white
Great Gray Owl - from the archives
Great Gray Owl - from my archives
Pine Grosbeaks
Old barn at the Ellis Bird Farm
Showy Milkweed with bee
Wild Lily-of-the-valley
First day of fledging
Colour for a snowy day
Black-necked Stilt
Narcissus
A bewildering world for a fallen owlet
Bees, bees, and more bees
Pretty Mama cat
Under a stormy sky
Standing in sunshine
Waiting for me
A mountain Bluebird with 'bling'
When storms blow in
A gleam in the eye
Bobolink / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
01 Red-winged Blackbird - female or juvenile
An endless feast for a Ladybug
The poser - Wilson's Snipe
Swainson's Hawk
A few of the bird houses at Ellis Bird Farm
Chipping Sparrow / Spizella passerina
Leisurely swim
Bluebird memories
Hen and rooster at the Saskatoon Farm
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
The one-legged stance
Lovage / Levisticum officinale
Predator with prey
Mustard White butterfly / Pieris oleracea
Handsome male Bobolink / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
House Wren at the Ellis Bird Farm
Sharp-tailed Grouse / Tympanuchus phasianellus
Nest-building Dad
Loved by Monarch butterflies
Reaching those faraway feathers
Mossleigh grain elevators
Goat's-beard
Eastern Kingbird
Storm clouds over Canola
A favourite bird to photograph
Great Gray Owl on a rainy day
Collecting food for her babies
At Mossleigh grain elevators
Longhorn
Weathered and patched
They can't see me
Bold and beautiful
Time to feed the kids
American Coot interactive display
Ladybug larva on Showy Milkweed
Layers
Barn Swallow
Love those Canola fields
Lighting up the storm clouds
This old house
Escape of the Black-crowned Night Heron
Ram's Horn Snail shell
Savannah Sparrow
Kalm's Lobelia / Lobelia kalmii
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NOTE to anyone who belongs to the ipernity website (includes me): ipernity will be closing in January 2017. A great shame, but also frustrating. I have all 12,644 of my images and descriptions on ipernity - exactly the same as on Flickr. Panoramio, too, has closed down, so there are a lot of people out there who will be looking for a new place to call home. No idea where we are supposed to move to now, if anywhere. Does anyone have any ideas for good sites? I seem to read complaints about them all! Hope Flickr keeps going and going and going ..... I still reckon it's the best, despite its faults.
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This photo of a Great Horned Owlet, from my archives, was taken on 6 May 2016. The photo quality is poor, but I thought it was just too cute to delete.
Unfortunately, I had half a dozen errands to run before allowing myself to go out with my camera that day, so I didn't get to the park till part way through the evening, and the light was already beginning to quickly fade. This beautiful owlet had been on the ground for a while before I arrived. There were a few people there and more came and went. However, I later heard that the owlet had been able to claw and flap its way up one of the trees and was safely out of reach of most predators. Meanwhile, the other fledgling had been very high up in a different tree, along with Mom.
I'm glad I did call in at this location when I did, as this beautiful little owl gave us a few chances for photos when it was up on a log or down on the ground, partly hidden by the plants and bushes. I don't know how it ended up on the ground, but obviously it fell from somewhere or misjudged flying distance when it finally left the nesting tree. An interesting world for it to explore, though it wasn't very steady on its feet yet : )
Things seem to have happened so fast this spring and I missed seeing the two owlets balancing on the rim of the nesting tree, exercising their wings before fledging. Also, I have been so busy that I've only been over to see the youngsters a handful of times. Looking on the more important side, this has meant one less person intruding on their area, of course, though I have to say that these owls are remarkably tolerant of humans. If a Canada Goose, on the other hand, should get anywhere near the nest or the little ones, Mom or Dad flies in for an immediate attack.
"With its long, earlike tufts, intimidating yellow-eyed stare, and deep hooting voice, the Great Horned Owl is the quintessential owl of storybooks. This powerful predator can take down birds and mammals even larger than itself, but it also dines on daintier fare such as tiny scorpions, mice, and frogs. It’s one of the most common owls in North America, equally at home in deserts, wetlands, forests, grasslands, backyards, cities, and almost any other semi-open habitat between the Arctic and the tropics.
Great Horned Owls are nocturnal. You may see them at dusk sitting on fence posts or tree limbs at the edges of open areas, or flying across roads or fields with stiff, deep beats of their rounded wings. Their call is a deep, stuttering series of four to five hoots." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Horned_Owl/id
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_horned_owl
www.ipernity.com/blog/team/4642052
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This photo of a Great Horned Owlet, from my archives, was taken on 6 May 2016. The photo quality is poor, but I thought it was just too cute to delete.
Unfortunately, I had half a dozen errands to run before allowing myself to go out with my camera that day, so I didn't get to the park till part way through the evening, and the light was already beginning to quickly fade. This beautiful owlet had been on the ground for a while before I arrived. There were a few people there and more came and went. However, I later heard that the owlet had been able to claw and flap its way up one of the trees and was safely out of reach of most predators. Meanwhile, the other fledgling had been very high up in a different tree, along with Mom.
I'm glad I did call in at this location when I did, as this beautiful little owl gave us a few chances for photos when it was up on a log or down on the ground, partly hidden by the plants and bushes. I don't know how it ended up on the ground, but obviously it fell from somewhere or misjudged flying distance when it finally left the nesting tree. An interesting world for it to explore, though it wasn't very steady on its feet yet : )
Things seem to have happened so fast this spring and I missed seeing the two owlets balancing on the rim of the nesting tree, exercising their wings before fledging. Also, I have been so busy that I've only been over to see the youngsters a handful of times. Looking on the more important side, this has meant one less person intruding on their area, of course, though I have to say that these owls are remarkably tolerant of humans. If a Canada Goose, on the other hand, should get anywhere near the nest or the little ones, Mom or Dad flies in for an immediate attack.
"With its long, earlike tufts, intimidating yellow-eyed stare, and deep hooting voice, the Great Horned Owl is the quintessential owl of storybooks. This powerful predator can take down birds and mammals even larger than itself, but it also dines on daintier fare such as tiny scorpions, mice, and frogs. It’s one of the most common owls in North America, equally at home in deserts, wetlands, forests, grasslands, backyards, cities, and almost any other semi-open habitat between the Arctic and the tropics.
Great Horned Owls are nocturnal. You may see them at dusk sitting on fence posts or tree limbs at the edges of open areas, or flying across roads or fields with stiff, deep beats of their rounded wings. Their call is a deep, stuttering series of four to five hoots." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Horned_Owl/id
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_horned_owl
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