Popcan-sized Northern Pygmy-owl, from January 2015
Another surprise on another gloomy day
Common Redpoll / Acanthis flammea
It's the little guy/gal again
Evening Grosbeaks, male and female
Purple Honeycreeper male
Northern Shrike
White-tailed Ptarmigan
White-tailed Ptarmigan camouflage
A change from a world of white
Time to rest
Wilson's Snipe
House Sparrow at the Saskatoon Farm
Ruddy Turnstone, Tobago
White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Where countryside and civilization meet
Once was wild
White Pheasant
Wild Turkey
Licorice Allsorts eyes
Wild Turkey at the Cochrane Ecological Institute
I spy with my little eye
"Just" a little House Sparrow
Common Redpoll
A welcome addition to our Christmas Bird Count
Feeding frenzy - is the top right bird a Hoary Red…
Common Redpoll with an orange spot
Always a treat
Pine Grosbeaks
Mountain Chickadee / Poecile gambeli
Pine Grosbeak female
Common Redpoll
Handsome Pine Grosbeak male
On a brutally cold New Year's Day Count
An upside-down kind of life
Northern Pygmy-owl
Immature White-necked Jacobin
Silver-beaked Tanager female, Trinidad
Visit to the Oilbird cave, Trinidad
Oilbird, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad
Purple Honeycreeper male, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Hooded Merganser male
Townsend's Solitaire / Myadestes townsendi
Crested Oropendola / Psarocolius decumanus, Trinid…
Bananaquit / Coereba flaveola, Trinidad
White-necked Jacobin, Asa Wright, Trinidad
White-necked Jacobin female, Trinidad
A most welcome find
Snowy Owl number 5
Two male Snowy Owls in the same field
Bananaquit, Trinidad
You never know where you'll see a Snowy Owl
Common Redpoll in falling snow
Pine Grosbeak male feeding on berries
A rare glimpse of a Steller's Jay
Pine Grosbeak female or juvenile
Janet and a tiny friend
Oilbird, Asa Wright, Trinidad
White-necked Jacobin, Trinidad
Yellow Oriole, Trinidad
White-chested Emerald / Amazilia brevirostris, Tri…
Southern Lapwing / Vanellus chilensis, Trinidad
Red-breasted Meadowlark / Sturnella militaris, Tri…
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
Barn Owl
Common Redpolls / Acanthis flammea
One of a pair
Shadows
Couple of Coots / Fulica americana
American Tree Sparrow / Spizelloides arborea
Yesterday's absolute treat - the size of your fist…
At the Saskatoon Farm
The ever-friendly Black-capped Chickadee
And down(y) he flew
Rufous-vented chachalaca, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Double-crested Cormorants / Phalacrocorax auritus
After a busy night of hunting
Ruddy Turnstone, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Evening Grosbeak female
Swainson's Hawk
Wood Duck male
Pam and friend
Yesterday's Bald Eagle
Bald Eagle / Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Merlin
Oilbird / Steatornis caripensis, Trinidad
At the Oilbird (Steatornis caripensis) cave, Trini…
Ring-billed Gull / Larus delawarensis
Great Horned Owl juvenile
Great Blue Heron, fishing
Yellow Oriole, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Friendly visitor
Yesterday's Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owl on a fence post
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Happy Thanksgiving!
I'm tiny - and BLUE
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Pretty little Hummer, Asa Wright, Trinidad - immat…
Red-tailed Hawk?
Eurasian Collared-Dove / Streptopelia decaocto
Three years later ....
Sweet young owl
Purple Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright
Magpies, Wood Ducks and a (Greater?) Yellowlegs
American Goldfinch
Helmeted Guineafowl
Swainson's Hawk
Juvenile American Coot
Palm Tanager, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Wood Duck juvenile
Juvenile Swainson's Hawk
Wood Ducks
Hybrid Mourning Dove-Eurasian Collared Dove
Green-winged Teal and Black-bellied Plover
American Goldfinch eating Sunflower seeds
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
Killdeer / Charadrius vociferus
Yellowlegs
Canada Warbler / Cardellina canadensis
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
Green Honeycreeper female, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Semipalmated Plover / Charadrius semipalmatus?
You looking at me, lady?
Blue-gray Tanager / Thraupis episcopus, Asa Wright…
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Canada Geese on ice at Pine Coulee Reservoir
This photo was taken on a trip to Pine Coulee Reservoir a week ago, on 12 November 2017. A group of eight of us went S and SE of the city on a birding trip to one of my favourite areas. This included Pine Coulee Reservoir, Clear Lake and the Twin Valley Reservoir. I just love some of the landscape through which we drove - barren, rugged, middle-of-nowhere kind of scenery. It looks so different in each season - I think my favourite time of year is when there is a covering of snow on the empty hills, and ice on most of the water. I've still not had the courage to drive in this area myself, as I know that I might never find my way out of it.
Several previous trips had covered part of this latest drive, but much of the return drive was in a huge area that I had never been to before. Later in the drive, we crossed the main highway #2 south and travelled the backroads way, way south of the Frank Lake area, and kept going north until we got back to the city. The Twin Valley Reservoir was one of the stops we made in this new-to-me area.
Actually, the other day, I was reading my account of a trip made on 9 November 2013, and I discovered that, in fact, I HAD been to this area before. Just shows that I often have no idea where we are at any given time. Since the trip in 2013, I do have a somewhat better understanding of the area S and SE of Calgary. The following is from Terry Korolyk's account of that day, four years ago:
"The north end of Clear Lake was frozen, so, we headed north to the Twin Valleys Dam Reservoir, and, drove up the east side of it. This produced more Rough-legged Hawks,and, a Prairie Falcon. Some herds of Mule Deer and flocks of Gray Partridge were seen on the trip home via Highways 804, 799, 552, and Dunbow Road."
As on almost all these day trips out of the city, almost every bird is far, far away, needing at least binoculars and best of all, a scope. Two Great Horned Owls and a couple of tiny Common Redpolls were the only closer photos I took. This was the first time that I had seen Redpolls this year, so it was a nice sighting. They were flying back and forth from the trees to perch on a rough, wooden fence.
Also, as always happens, my camera lens turns to things other than birds. Scenic shots are always taken - after all, I feel that it is important to record the habitat of any birds seen. I have no excuse to give for photographing any old barn or homestead, other than that I LOVE to photograph them : )
Terry, you took us on such an amazing trip! So many new (or forgotten) places, to me at least. You even arranged with the weatherman for a beautiful, sunny day. It couldn't have been a better outing - so very enjoyable. Now all I need to do is look at a map and try and find roughly where we travelled! Really appreciate your carefully made lists of all species seen, and where.
Several previous trips had covered part of this latest drive, but much of the return drive was in a huge area that I had never been to before. Later in the drive, we crossed the main highway #2 south and travelled the backroads way, way south of the Frank Lake area, and kept going north until we got back to the city. The Twin Valley Reservoir was one of the stops we made in this new-to-me area.
Actually, the other day, I was reading my account of a trip made on 9 November 2013, and I discovered that, in fact, I HAD been to this area before. Just shows that I often have no idea where we are at any given time. Since the trip in 2013, I do have a somewhat better understanding of the area S and SE of Calgary. The following is from Terry Korolyk's account of that day, four years ago:
"The north end of Clear Lake was frozen, so, we headed north to the Twin Valleys Dam Reservoir, and, drove up the east side of it. This produced more Rough-legged Hawks,and, a Prairie Falcon. Some herds of Mule Deer and flocks of Gray Partridge were seen on the trip home via Highways 804, 799, 552, and Dunbow Road."
As on almost all these day trips out of the city, almost every bird is far, far away, needing at least binoculars and best of all, a scope. Two Great Horned Owls and a couple of tiny Common Redpolls were the only closer photos I took. This was the first time that I had seen Redpolls this year, so it was a nice sighting. They were flying back and forth from the trees to perch on a rough, wooden fence.
Also, as always happens, my camera lens turns to things other than birds. Scenic shots are always taken - after all, I feel that it is important to record the habitat of any birds seen. I have no excuse to give for photographing any old barn or homestead, other than that I LOVE to photograph them : )
Terry, you took us on such an amazing trip! So many new (or forgotten) places, to me at least. You even arranged with the weatherman for a beautiful, sunny day. It couldn't have been a better outing - so very enjoyable. Now all I need to do is look at a map and try and find roughly where we travelled! Really appreciate your carefully made lists of all species seen, and where.
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