Filtered
Unidentified fruit
Lying on a bed of hoarfrost
Snowy Owl along the fenceline
With a little filtered help
Colour from Ornamental Cabbages
Typically Western
Greenish sky beneath a Chinook Arch
Always glad to see a Snowy
02 Bald Eagle in late afternoon sun
A potful of owls
Ageless beauty
Artichoke, Saskatoon Farm
Trying to impress the ladies
Hey, lady, I said NO photos!
Eared Grebe
Springtime colour
The look that says: "Please feed me"
Red-winged Blackbird male
Yellow-headed Blackbird male
Frank Lake bird blind
Ruddy Duck male
American Coot
Red-winged Blackbird male
Ruddy Duck male
Helmeted Guineafowl / Numida meleagris
Little country church
Ruddy Duck female
No longer a home
Yesterday's barn
A wild Sunflower from a gravel road
Out in the middle of nowhere
Bison with smoke haze
Eared Grebe
An old, red beauty
Snow turns something ordinary into beautiful
'Barn' Owl, alias Great Horned Owl
Happy Christmas, everyone!
Beauty in the final stage
Can you see what I see?
One of my favourite barns
Snowy Owl harassed by Snow Buntings
Little country church at Dinton
A bunch of Christmas owls
Grain storage in Heronton
Seedpod of Datura sp.?
Hanging on till the final fall
Black-necked Stilt
Pretty Mama cat
Ornamental Cabbage or Ornamental Kale?
That sinking feeling
Under a stormy sky
When storms blow in
American Tree Sparrow
An old favourite
Silos/grain terminal and old elevator, Herronton
Lapland Longspur? No, a female Red-winged Blackbi…
Purple Petunias
Grain elevator at Barons
An old barn with character
Sunflower going to seed
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
No need to worry about one or two wrinkles
The colours of fall
Across the river
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Winter on the prairies
Well, today, 20 January 2017, is certainly an historic day, not just for the US, but for the whole world! I watched every moment of the US Presidential Inauguration, until the luncheon - and then posted my photos for today : ) I was very impressed with everything I saw, especially the classy way in which President Donald Trump and Former President Barak Obama dealt with each other. I wish the new President all the best in his endeavours for the American people, and definitely wish the highly popular Obama family all the very best in their new life. Though I am Canadian, I will miss the Obamas, who set such an inspirational example of love of family and each other. A truly delightful family. Good luck, everyone!
On 3 January 2017, on the spur of the moment, I decided to drive out of the city and see if I could find a Snowy Owl or possibly even a Short-eared Owl. I had no idea what the winter roads would be like and quickly found out that on the main highway south, there was enough snow left on the road for much of the drive to hide the lines showing the different lanes - something that I never like. Once I reached the area I wanted to start looking, each side road looked too snow-covered for my liking, so I avoided most of them - seeing nothing but a barn and a shed or two.
I had seen and photographed the barn in this photo before and I had also recently seen a photo of it with a Great Horned Owl perched on it, posted by a friend. I had not set out to drive quite this far, as Snowy Owls were what I had really wanted to search for. Also, experience told me that just because an owl is seen in a place by one person, it doesn't mean that the owl will be there again on a different day. I was certainly lucky this time! The barn is quite a distance from the road and from that far away, to anyone driving by, the owl would look just like a piece of wood sticking up.
"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." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Horned_Owl/id
On 3 January 2017, on the spur of the moment, I decided to drive out of the city and see if I could find a Snowy Owl or possibly even a Short-eared Owl. I had no idea what the winter roads would be like and quickly found out that on the main highway south, there was enough snow left on the road for much of the drive to hide the lines showing the different lanes - something that I never like. Once I reached the area I wanted to start looking, each side road looked too snow-covered for my liking, so I avoided most of them - seeing nothing but a barn and a shed or two.
I had seen and photographed the barn in this photo before and I had also recently seen a photo of it with a Great Horned Owl perched on it, posted by a friend. I had not set out to drive quite this far, as Snowy Owls were what I had really wanted to search for. Also, experience told me that just because an owl is seen in a place by one person, it doesn't mean that the owl will be there again on a different day. I was certainly lucky this time! The barn is quite a distance from the road and from that far away, to anyone driving by, the owl would look just like a piece of wood sticking up.
"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." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Horned_Owl/id
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