Memories of colour
Aging Echinacea
Common Redpoll
Snow-capped
The final stage of an Artichoke
A welcome splash of colour
The end of an Artichoke
Old wagon in winter
Lacy curtain of ice
Our last morning on island of Trinidad
Splash of colour
Tropical pink, Trinidad
Shoo-fly / Nicandra physalodes
Sunflower detail
Milk Thistle, I believe
White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac, Quebec
Chipping Sparrow, Tadoussac, Quebec
Pretty in pink
A new addition
Beauty
White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac, Quebec
Blue Himalayan Poppy
Peony seedpods
Hollyhock
American Goldfinch juvenile / Spinus tristis
Downy Woodpecker and American Goldfinch
Pine Siskin
Jackie's squirrel - Red or Eastern Gray?
Pine Siskin
Pine Siskin taking a bath
Pine Siskin
The painted cow - "Some enchanted evening"
Globe Thistle / Echinops ritro
Butterfly on Joe Pye Weed
Pink (African?) Daisies
Turkistan Burning Bush / Euonymus nanus turkmenist…
Maple sp.?
Sea Holly
Artichoke in bloom
After our first major snowstorm
Pumpkin season, kid-style
Beauty in old age
Birdhouse with a difference
For the birds
Lest We Forget
A much-needed change of colour
Day 10, White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 7, Red Squirrel eating the bird food, Tadoussa…
Garden decoration
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow
Day 10, White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 10, White-throated Sparrow
Day 10, White-crowned Sparrow
Dreaming of spring
Much needed colour
Baltimore Oriole / Icterus galbula
Western Tanager / Piranga ludoviciana
Baltimore Oriole / Icterus galbula
Western Tanager / Piranga ludoviciana
Before "winter" arrived
Common Redpolls / Acanthis flammea
Lest we forget
September flowers
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
End of the season
Welcome colour
Remembering summer colour
Artichoke flower with different bee species
Cosmos beauty
Kangaroo Apple flowers / Solanum aviculare (?)
Masterwort / Astrantia major
Last days before the snow
Sunflower and visitors
Colours
Bluebird of happiness
Looper Moth sp.
Lasting beauty
Busy little bee
Owl and spider webs
The Long house, Pioneer Acres, Alberta, Canada
Bees, bees and more bees
About to open
Hybrid Mourning Dove-Eurasian Collared Dove
Bee on Sunflower
American Goldfinch eating Sunflower seeds
Checkered Skipper sp.?
A filtered Poppy
Hosta flowers
When the last petal has fallen
Red Birds in a Tree plant
Geranium sp.
Splash of colour
A pot full of colour
Day Lily
My new neighbour?
Celosia sp.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird female
Nemophila sp.
Garden flowers at the Rusty Bucket Ranch
Hearts at the Rusty Bucket Ranch
Summer colour
Gaillardia
Lilium martagon - the beauty of a Lily
Himalayan Blue Poppies
Artichoke, Saskatoon Farm
Ageless beauty
A potful of owls
Steps from my cabin to main building, Asa Wright
Tropical Mockingbird, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Tropical Mockingbird / Mimus gilvus, Tobago
Tropical Mockingbird with attitude
Ixora
Tropical Mockingbird / Mimus gilvus, Tobago
Down by the sea
Ixora, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Gorgeous orange flowers of the Flame tree
Giant seedpod of the Flame Tree, Blue Waters Inn,…
Shiny Cowbird / Molothrus bonariensis, Tobago
Tropical tree, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
Allamanda, Blue Waters Inn, Tobago
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Common Redpoll / Acanthis flammea
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This photo was taken on a 7-hour trip to Pine Coulee Reservoir 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.
This photo was taken on a 7-hour trip to Pine Coulee Reservoir 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.
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