Beyond the fence
Brown-headed Cowbird male
Mountain Bluebird with food for her babies
Brewer's Blackbird male
Common Nighthawk
Sheep at the Rusty Bucket Ranch
Mountain Bluebird female
Splash of colour
A road less travelled
An old red barn
Farm in the foothills
The Long house, Pioneer Acres, Alberta, Canada
Disappearing Skunk - just for the record
The charred remains of McDougall Memorial United C…
Great Horned Owl on a fence post
A new-to-me old barn
Evening Grosbeak female
Fragile and leaning
Storm clouds near the city
Pontiac and Massey Harris, rusting side by side
The joys of an old farmyard
The red barn
A beauty of a barn
Alberta foothills in the fall
Old, see-through barn
Down on the farm
New "barn", Granary Road
A peaceful winter scene
A country scene
Northern Shrike
Modern barn
The fun times are over
One of my favourite barns
Handsome - Norwegian Fjord Horse?
Here comes the snow
In search of an owl - with permission
Barn with the fallen cupola
Common Redpoll
On a Christmas Bird Count, -23C
A most welcome find
Old barns in winter
Lacy curtain of ice
Red barn in winter
Whites and blues of winter
Great Kiskadee, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Country scene in winter
A white world
Deer on the horizon
The ever-present Black-capped Chickadee
Plain, but welcome
Splash of colour
Rose-breasted Grosbeak from the archives
On its way down
One of two Coyotes
Donkey guardians of the old schoolhouse
A touch of blue
Western Meadowlark
A rural "winter" scene
They're back : )
Goodbye, winter - so glad you are gone!
Remembering winter
Yellow-headed Blackbird / Xanthocephalus xanthocep…
The beauty of iridescence
A house to match
Mountain Bluebird male
Mallard female
Rough-legged Hawk / Buteo lagopus
A distant shot from my archives
Well-protected
One of my favourite views
Greenish sky beneath a Chinook Arch
Skull on a fence post
A mix of textures
Dreaming of spring
Winter textures
Snowy Owl along the fenceline
Red-winged Blackbird female or juvenile
The peace of a prairie farm - my main photo today
Better than nothing - this is NOT my main photo!
Northern Shrike / Lanius excubitor
Afternoon light on the foothills
Barn with a mural
A touch of blue
Our beautiful Alberta
Snow turns something ordinary into beautiful
Winter walking
Nanton Christmas Bird Count
A well looked after barn
Sunrise colour over the mountain peaks
Christmas star
Following the fenceline
Old barn at the Ellis Bird Farm
One spectacular fall day
Clematis after the rain
01 Red-winged Blackbird - female or juvenile
02 Two young Moose
The beauty of fall
McDougall Memorial United Church
A bright splash of blue in August
Swainson's Hawk on an early morning hunt
Mt Lorette Ponds, Kananaskis
Nest-building Dad
Eastern Kingbird
A well-decorated fence
Collecting food for her babies
Bright and cheery in its old age
This old house
My first Bald Eagle on a fence post
Beautiful wings of a female Mountain Bluebird
Female Bobolink / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Such good parents
I think he caught a beautiful Tiger Moth : )
Along a country back road
Female Mountain Bluebird / Sialia currucoides
Entrance to the Ellis Bird Farm
The old barn at the Ellis Bird Farm
01 Spic and span
McDougall Memorial United Church
Dandelions - of course : )
Wilson's Snipe, seen from afar
Still standing
Yellow-headed Blackbirds in every direction
Mountain Bluebird
A white barn from yesterday
Mountain Bluebirds have no blue pigment
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Ride him, Cowboy!
Most unusual for me, I was so desperately tired two evenings ago, that I couldn't even stay awake to find and edit three photos to post to Flickr yesterday morning! It was a long day of birding on 28 May 2017, for the May Species Count, and it completely knocked me out for the following day. Tiredness seems to be my constant companion, but not so tired that I can't fight it. So, no photos from me yesterday!
Yesterday, 30 May 2017, I was out for the day south of the city with my Daughter (a belated day out for my birthday and Mother's Day), to Nanton and a few roads nearby, then making our way north to Frank Lake and finally ending up at the Saskatoon Farm.
It takes about 45 minutes to drive south to the town of Nanton. Though I had been quite a few times over the years when carpooling with various friends, I had never driven quite that far south and through the town. My daughter wanted to walk round two or three of the antique shops there and we both wanted to take a few photos of the grain elevators.
Once that was all done, we drove westwards from the town. Though the scenery is beautiful, we did not enjoy being on a main road with no shoulder to pull over to. We did stop once in a small pull-off, to get a few scenic shots. This was where we saw this metal cut-out of a cowboy riding his horse, with a bird perched on top of his hat. I can't decide if the distant bird is a Common Grackle or a Brewer's Blackbird, or something else?
We decided to turn around and cross over to the other side of the main highway (#2) and drive north to Frank Lake, hoping to find a few things to photograph along the backroads. A handful of barns and a very few distant birds were enough to make the drive worthwhile.
Frank Lake was deserted when we arrived there, though a couple of other people turned up shortly. Not many bird species, either. The water was quite choppy thanks to the wind, and there was just one Coot, a pair of Ruddy Ducks, a Barn Swallow and one Eared Grebe. I managed to get just the one shot (posted this morning) of the latter. Saw two American Avocets, a Killdeer and a pair of Phalaropes. Franklin's Gulls were their usual noisy selves. Not a single White-faced Ibis to be seen, and only one or two Red-winged and Yellow-headed Blackbirds. When we had been on the road south of the lake, we had seen a Black-crowned Night-Heron perched on a distant fence, being harassed by several smaller birds - Brown-headed Cowbirds? I was so happy to see the Heron, as I so rarely see them. We had also seen a shorebird in a field of stubble and I need to check if this was a Long-billed Curlew.
On our way home, we called in at the Saskatoon Farm and were just in time to order a meal before they closed at 4:00 pm.. A quick wander round gave me the chance to grab a shot or two of a very loud Rooster and the male Wild Turkey. My favourite kind of day, so thank you, Rachel, as always!!
Yesterday, 30 May 2017, I was out for the day south of the city with my Daughter (a belated day out for my birthday and Mother's Day), to Nanton and a few roads nearby, then making our way north to Frank Lake and finally ending up at the Saskatoon Farm.
It takes about 45 minutes to drive south to the town of Nanton. Though I had been quite a few times over the years when carpooling with various friends, I had never driven quite that far south and through the town. My daughter wanted to walk round two or three of the antique shops there and we both wanted to take a few photos of the grain elevators.
Once that was all done, we drove westwards from the town. Though the scenery is beautiful, we did not enjoy being on a main road with no shoulder to pull over to. We did stop once in a small pull-off, to get a few scenic shots. This was where we saw this metal cut-out of a cowboy riding his horse, with a bird perched on top of his hat. I can't decide if the distant bird is a Common Grackle or a Brewer's Blackbird, or something else?
We decided to turn around and cross over to the other side of the main highway (#2) and drive north to Frank Lake, hoping to find a few things to photograph along the backroads. A handful of barns and a very few distant birds were enough to make the drive worthwhile.
Frank Lake was deserted when we arrived there, though a couple of other people turned up shortly. Not many bird species, either. The water was quite choppy thanks to the wind, and there was just one Coot, a pair of Ruddy Ducks, a Barn Swallow and one Eared Grebe. I managed to get just the one shot (posted this morning) of the latter. Saw two American Avocets, a Killdeer and a pair of Phalaropes. Franklin's Gulls were their usual noisy selves. Not a single White-faced Ibis to be seen, and only one or two Red-winged and Yellow-headed Blackbirds. When we had been on the road south of the lake, we had seen a Black-crowned Night-Heron perched on a distant fence, being harassed by several smaller birds - Brown-headed Cowbirds? I was so happy to see the Heron, as I so rarely see them. We had also seen a shorebird in a field of stubble and I need to check if this was a Long-billed Curlew.
On our way home, we called in at the Saskatoon Farm and were just in time to order a meal before they closed at 4:00 pm.. A quick wander round gave me the chance to grab a shot or two of a very loud Rooster and the male Wild Turkey. My favourite kind of day, so thank you, Rachel, as always!!
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