Red-winged Blackbird female or juvenile
Goat's-beard with visitor
Northern Hawk Owl
Quietly watching, always alert
Seedhead wisps
Peacefully waiting
Just needed colour
Heart of a Snowdrop
Picked for demonstration
Great Gray Owl, focused
Northern Hawk Owl
Bark patterns on a cut log
Wild Bergamot
Mountain Chickadee
Northern Pygmy-owl
03 A gift in August
Invasive Goat's-beard and Baby's breath
Boreal Chickadee
Pinedrops
Northern Hawk Owl with woodland bokeh
Ruddy Turnstone / Arenaria interpres, Blue Waters…
Allamanda, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Tropical tree, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Rufous-vented chachalaca / Ortalis ruficauda, Toba…
Shiny Cowbird / Molothrus bonariensis, Tobago
Tropical Mockingbird with attitude
Splash of colour
Ruddy Turnstone bathtime
Tropical Mockingbird, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Tropical Kingbird / Tyrannus melancholicus, Tobago…
Is this a Giant Cowbird?, Tobago, Day 2
Purple Honeycreeper / Cyanerpes caeruleus, Asa Wri…
Masked Cardinal / Paroaria nigrogenis, Trinidad, D…
Green Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright Nature Centre,…
White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Tr…
Blue-gray Tanager, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trini…
Green Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright Nature Centr…
Pink Ginger, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad
Crested Oropendola / Psarocolius decumanus, Asa Wr…
Torch Ginger / Etlingera elatior, Asa Wright Natur…
Copper-rumped Hummingbird / Amazilia tobac, Trinid…
Bananaquit / Coereba flaveola, Asa Wright, Trinida…
Western Meadowlark / Sturnella neglecta
Green Honeycreeper, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trin…
White-necked Jacobin female, Trinidad
White-necked Jacobin female, Asa Wright Nature Cen…
Cacao tree (chocolate!), on way to Brasso Seco, Tr…
Ageless beauty
Artichoke, Saskatoon Farm
Green Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright Nature Centre,…
White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Tr…
Green Hermit Hummingbird female, Asa Wright Nature…
White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright Nature Centre
Splash of colour, Trinidad
Angel's Trumpet, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinida…
Green Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright Nature Centre,…
Wilson's Snipe
Hummingbird wings
White-necked Jacobin immature, Trinidad
Green Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Green Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Up close and personal
Common Grackle / Quiscalus quiscula
Northern Hawk Owl
Female Mountain Bluebird with lunch for her babies
The size of a popcan
Cheery sunflower
Turkey Vulture preening
A touch of blue
A change from a Black-capped Chickadee
Downy Woodpecker and bokeh
Mountain Chickadee on Donna's hand
Poor quality, but of interest
Barn Owl
Ever watchful
Backside beauty
Joy for a deep-freeze day
Shooting in the rain
Black-capped Chickadee
Small fungi growing among the mosses
The upside-down bird
Oak leaf and insect gall
Colour for a snowy day
Narcissus
A visit to George's hand
Lest we forget
Simplicity
Standing in sunshine
A birder's first time
A mountain Bluebird with 'bling'
Snake's head fritillary, Fritillaria meleagris
Bobolink / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
01 Red-winged Blackbird - female or juvenile
Colours and textures
An endless feast for a Ladybug
Aging beauties
Up close and personal with a Turkey Vulture
The poser - Wilson's Snipe
Swainson's Hawk
Always good for a splash of colour
Katydid on Common Tansy
Sunflower going to seed
Astilbe
As fall colours come to an end
Larch in fall colour
Brightness on a cloudy day
False Dandelion / Agoseris glauca
Autumn berries
Three insect species on a single flower
The colours of fall
Barn Owl / Tyto alba
Lichen at Bunchberry Meadows Conservation Area
Bluebird memories
A splash of sunshine
Comb/Branched Hericium / Hericium ramosum
Turkey Vulture
An odd colour in nature
Texture
Sainfoin / Onobrychis viciifolia
Picked for demonstration purposes - Honey Mushroom…
Fine 'threads' of a mushroom veil
A garden in the forest
The one-legged stance
Pinedrops / Pterospora - rare
Handsome male Bobolink / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
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Flickr is acting up again, 31 January 2017 - a problem today (for others as well as myself) with views and stats. Some people's images are not being seen, and consequently a much smaller number of views under each photo. There is always something not working correctly! It is being looked into by Flickr staff, apparently.
On 30 June 2016, I just made it in time for a botany visit to our main naturalist leader's home and garden. He and his wife have an amazing double-lot garden, full of so many kinds of flowers, including a good variety of native plants. One of my favourites is Showy Milkweed - love the cluster of individual flowers and buds growing on a rounded head. These plants have spread over a lot of the front garden. All they need now is for Monarch butterflies to fly a bit further north than they usually do and discover this little bit of butterfly heaven.
In 2012, though, it was very unusual, as people were seeing a few of these amazing butterflies in Alberta, including in Calgary. I even got to see and photograph a couple of Monarch caterpillars in this garden in July 2012, for the very first and last time. Milkweed does not normally grow in Calgary, though we have seen a plant or two growing in the wild at one location in the city.
Our leader also has a large vegetable garden. One thing that always fascinates me is the Egyptian Walking Onion. Each one seems to take on its own artistic shape and I love to photograph these - both fascinating and quite beautiful.
In the afternoon of this day, we experienced a huge rain and hail storm. Fortunately, it cleared up in time to go on Don Stiles' annual evening Bluebird route trip. I always look forward to going with Don on his nest box route, checking on a few of the boxes and finding either Bluebird or Tree Swallow eggs or babies. Don records all the information about numbers and dates, and also demonstrates how he carefully bands the young birds. Thanks, as always, Don, for an enjoyable evening outing and thank you for all the many, many years (must be somewhere around 35?) you have spent helping to preserve our beautiful Bluebirds. We all enjoyed seeing the various other bird species during the evening, too.
On 30 June 2016, I just made it in time for a botany visit to our main naturalist leader's home and garden. He and his wife have an amazing double-lot garden, full of so many kinds of flowers, including a good variety of native plants. One of my favourites is Showy Milkweed - love the cluster of individual flowers and buds growing on a rounded head. These plants have spread over a lot of the front garden. All they need now is for Monarch butterflies to fly a bit further north than they usually do and discover this little bit of butterfly heaven.
In 2012, though, it was very unusual, as people were seeing a few of these amazing butterflies in Alberta, including in Calgary. I even got to see and photograph a couple of Monarch caterpillars in this garden in July 2012, for the very first and last time. Milkweed does not normally grow in Calgary, though we have seen a plant or two growing in the wild at one location in the city.
Our leader also has a large vegetable garden. One thing that always fascinates me is the Egyptian Walking Onion. Each one seems to take on its own artistic shape and I love to photograph these - both fascinating and quite beautiful.
In the afternoon of this day, we experienced a huge rain and hail storm. Fortunately, it cleared up in time to go on Don Stiles' annual evening Bluebird route trip. I always look forward to going with Don on his nest box route, checking on a few of the boxes and finding either Bluebird or Tree Swallow eggs or babies. Don records all the information about numbers and dates, and also demonstrates how he carefully bands the young birds. Thanks, as always, Don, for an enjoyable evening outing and thank you for all the many, many years (must be somewhere around 35?) you have spent helping to preserve our beautiful Bluebirds. We all enjoyed seeing the various other bird species during the evening, too.
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