Ring-billed Gull / Larus delawarensis
Cockshutt tractor, Pioneer Acres
Merlin
Old dolls, Pioneer Acres Museum, Alberta
Once a home
Artichoke flower with different bee species
Bald Eagle / Haliaeetus leucocephalus
A new-to-me old barn
Yesterday's storm
Bighorn Sheep, mom and youngster
Rust patterns
A Coyote's last look back
A view from Quarry Lake, Canmore
Yesterday's Bald Eagle
Sun halo over Glenmore Reservoir
Pam and friend
Old granaries on the prairie
When the storm moved in
Bighorn Sheep on the slope
Town of Canmore, Alberta
Wood Duck male
Swainson's Hawk
Beneath the cloud
Chains
A fine old barn
A drive through Kananaskis
A favourite subject with photographers
Rural decay
Evening Grosbeak female
Part of the same shelf cloud
After a busy night of hunting
Storm arriving at Quarry Lake, near Canmore
Remembering summer colour
Naturalist, Gus Yaki, with Harry Kiyooka, artist
Katie Ohe, sculptor
Early morning sunrise over the mountains
Kinetic sculpture by Katie Ohe, at KOAC
Welcome colour
Finally, the search is over
Double-crested Cormorants / Phalacrocorax auritus
A touch of Halloween
Beauty in old age
International Loadstar 1600
Autumn Stripes
Happy Halloween!
Curious Alpaca
Weathered
End of the season
Final resting place
Goodbye fall, hello winter!
Fragile and leaning
Lichens on nature trail at KOAC
Kinetic sculptures by Katie Ohe, KOAC
Learning from Mom
In fairly good condition
Storm clouds near the city
Pontiac and Massey Harris, rusting side by side
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
And down(y) he flew
The return of the ice pillars
Hello, winter
The ever-friendly Black-capped Chickadee
Snow-capped berries
Complete with little red birdhouse
Great Blue Heron, fishing
Old barn
Cosmos beauty
Side by side
Friendly visitor
Fish Creek Park on a low-light day
Yesterday's Great Horned Owl
A mountain meadow, Kananaskis, Alberta
Same kind of flower as yesterday's
Great Horned Owl on a fence post
Purity
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Fall colours in Fish Creek Park
Happy Thanksgiving!
Kangaroo Apple flowers / Solanum aviculare (?)
Old homestead, Alberta
Cattle drive in the mountains of Kananaskis, Alber…
Heading for the mountains on a hazy morning
Blackened remains of McDougall Memorial United Chu…
Another favourite Alberta barn
Old Minneapolis Moline tractor, Pioneer Acres
Gentians in a friend's garden
The charred remains of McDougall Memorial United C…
Lenticular (?) clouds over the mountains
Common Raven keeping watch
Masterwort / Astrantia major
Kananaskis before the snowstorm
Case steam tractor, Pioneer Acres
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Before the snow arrived
Part of an old miners' camp
Things are not always what they seem
A new-to-me old barn
Ah, those glorious Larches in their fall colours
Last days before the snow
The colours of fall
Red-tailed Hawk?
Sunflower and visitors
Pine Coulee Reservoir, Alberta
Disappearing Skunk - just for the record
Pine Coulee Reservoir, Alberta
Eurasian Collared-Dove / Streptopelia decaocto
Mid-morning sun at Pine Coulee Reservoir
Three years later ....
Waterton Lake from the townsite - before the fire
A popular row of old granaries
Old red tractor at the Saskatoon Farm
Sweet young owl
Colours
Lichen on the rocks at Rock Glacier
Memories of Waterton - Bear Grass
Rooster, Saskatoon Farm
Back view of an orange Sunflower
A fine old barn
Bluebird of happiness
An old grain elevator with character
In the middle of nowhere - spot the truck
Magpies, Wood Ducks and a (Greater?) Yellowlegs
Looper Moth sp.
A digital setting capture of the Laing house, Albe…
Old tractor, Pioneer Acres
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Great Horned Owl juvenile
This young, light-coloured Great Horned Owl was just so perfect and seemed to be a great character. Three adults tethered nearby were also quite pale in colour. I know some people feel that photographing birds that are not out in the wild is cheating. I kind of agree, though I think it's fine as long as someone says where it was taken. I have seen and photographed many owls in their natural habitat, but I still love seeing them at the Alberta Birds of Prey Centre in Coaldale, southern Alberta.
This summer (2017), we have had practically no 'normal' summer days. Most have been either too hot thanks to our endless heatwave - until very recently, when it has turned cold and even wet or snowy - or too smoky thanks to all the wildfires in British Columbia and Alberta. The weather forecast for 3 August 2017 looked good; sunshine all day, with rain forecast on several of the coming days. I decided to finally do a drive all the way down south to near Lethbridge, so that I could again visit the Alberta Birds of Prey Centre in Coaldale. Last year, I did this drive for the very first time on my own and I wanted to make sure I didn't lose my courage to do it again. During the 511 kms that I drove, I had to ask for help with directions twice - both times in the same small hamlet. It was a hot day, with a temperature of 31C when I was at the Centre.
Though the forecast was for sun all day, there was no mention of the smoke haze that completely blocked out the mountains and pretty much the foothills, too. Very quickly, I was almost tempted to turn around and come home, but I had noticed rain in the forecast for some coming days. I reckoned I would still be able to photograph the fairly close birds at the Centre, which worked out fine.
Amazingly, I managed to make myself get up early that morning, and set off just before 8:30 am. My intention was to drive straight to Coaldale without stopping anywhere en route. Not an easy thing for me to do, as I much prefer driving slowly along the back roads rather than the less interesting highways. However, I knew it would take me a few hours to get there and I wanted to have as much time as possible down there. On the way home, I drove one dusty, gravel road, but saw nothing but two Horned Larks perched on fence posts. A couple of old barns (that I had seen before) and a few scenic shots, were more or less all I took.
Twelve hours later, I finally arrived home, at 8:30 pm, totally tired out, and my car was just about out of gas. So happy to have been down there again, though.
This summer (2017), we have had practically no 'normal' summer days. Most have been either too hot thanks to our endless heatwave - until very recently, when it has turned cold and even wet or snowy - or too smoky thanks to all the wildfires in British Columbia and Alberta. The weather forecast for 3 August 2017 looked good; sunshine all day, with rain forecast on several of the coming days. I decided to finally do a drive all the way down south to near Lethbridge, so that I could again visit the Alberta Birds of Prey Centre in Coaldale. Last year, I did this drive for the very first time on my own and I wanted to make sure I didn't lose my courage to do it again. During the 511 kms that I drove, I had to ask for help with directions twice - both times in the same small hamlet. It was a hot day, with a temperature of 31C when I was at the Centre.
Though the forecast was for sun all day, there was no mention of the smoke haze that completely blocked out the mountains and pretty much the foothills, too. Very quickly, I was almost tempted to turn around and come home, but I had noticed rain in the forecast for some coming days. I reckoned I would still be able to photograph the fairly close birds at the Centre, which worked out fine.
Amazingly, I managed to make myself get up early that morning, and set off just before 8:30 am. My intention was to drive straight to Coaldale without stopping anywhere en route. Not an easy thing for me to do, as I much prefer driving slowly along the back roads rather than the less interesting highways. However, I knew it would take me a few hours to get there and I wanted to have as much time as possible down there. On the way home, I drove one dusty, gravel road, but saw nothing but two Horned Larks perched on fence posts. A couple of old barns (that I had seen before) and a few scenic shots, were more or less all I took.
Twelve hours later, I finally arrived home, at 8:30 pm, totally tired out, and my car was just about out of gas. So happy to have been down there again, though.
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