Colourful shed at the Cochrane Ecological Institut…
When the land turns white
Glorious scenery for a Christmas Bird Count!
Trudging through the snow
Happy New Year, everyone!
On a New Year's Day Bird Count
Northern Pygmy-owl
A rural Christmas
Torch Ginger, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Pine Grosbeak male feeding on berries
Waiting for the Scarlet Ibis, Caroni Swamp
Surprise, surprise ... an American Flamingo, Caron…
Pine Grosbeak male / Pinicola enucleator
Rainforest of the Arima Valley, Trinidad
The beauty of winter
Torch Ginger, deep in the shadows
Whites and blues of winter
Scarlet Ibis, Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Evening light at Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Watching Scarlet Ibis at Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Sunset at Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Great Blue Heron and Egret, Trinidad
Rusty and abandoned
Sunset at the Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
A view from yesterday
Final photo from Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
A scene in the Whaleback area
Great Gray Owl #2
Great Gray Owl hunting
Great Gray Owl, highly zoomed
Great Gray Owl on the hunt
Bighorn Sheep mom and youngster
Twice the beauty
Winter beauty
Great Gray Owl
On the way to Canmore - seven Swans a-swimming :)
Bear Grass, Waterton Lakes National Park
Ghost Reservoir
Evening mist in the rainforest
A rural "winter" scene
Dryad's Saddle Fungus (?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
At the base of a tree, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Fungus (Dryad's Saddle?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
A favourite view, Waterton Lakes National Park
Clark's Nutcracker / Nucifraga columbiana
Western Wood Lily
On the way home from Cartwrights' land
On the way home from Cartwright bio-blitz
Friends at Bow Lake
Beautiful Peyto Lake
Purple Avens / Water Avens / Geum rivale
Common Raven at Bow Lake
Bow Lake on a cloudy day
Magpie Inky Cap / Coprinus picaceus?
Magpie Inky Cap / Coprinus picaceus?
Scaly Pholiota / Pholiota squarrosa
Spruce Grouse / Falcipennis canadensis
Beautiful guttation droplets on a polypore
Beginning to look like fall
Most likely a Ground Pholiota / Pholiota terrestri…
Let the light shine in
Onnia triquetra (??) and Blue Stain
A spider's creation
Bison/Buffalo
The sweetest little thing
Dazzling sunlight on distant peaks
A white world
A patch of blue
Walking in a winter wonderland
Autumn in Alberta
It's the little guy/gal again
Another surprise on another gloomy day
The beauty of erosion
Alberta foothills in the fall
Start of the storm
Storm arriving at Quarry Lake, near Canmore
A drive through Kananaskis
Town of Canmore, Alberta
When the storm moved in
A view from Quarry Lake, Canmore
A mountain meadow, Kananaskis, Alberta
Fall colours in Fish Creek Park
Cattle drive in the mountains of Kananaskis, Alber…
Kananaskis before the snowstorm
Things are not always what they seem
Ah, those glorious Larches in their fall colours
Waterton Lake from the townsite - before the fire
Memories of Waterton - Bear Grass
Road through Kananaskis
Our precious Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta…
Bear Grass bud / Xerophyllum tenax
On the way down
Scenery along Highway 40, Kananaskis
The beauty of our mountains
Showy Aster
Vanishing landscape
Love those hills
Yesterday's main find : (
Little green hearts of White Camas
Bear Grass
Bear Grass bud
Stellar's Jay juvenile
Bear Grass with Crab Spider and prey
Western Wood Lily
Greenish-flowered Wintergreen / Pyrola chlorantha
Indian Paintbrush
Purple/Water Avens seedhead / Geum rivale
Wolf's Milk slime mold, Rusty Bucket Ranch
A view from Red Rock Canyon, Waterton
Pinedrops
Bear Grass / Xerophyllum tenax
Lazuli Bunting
Pink Monkeyflower
Cameron Lake, Waterton Lakes National Park
A different view from Maskinonge lookout, Waterton
Bear Grass starting to open
Marbled Cobweb Spider / Enoplognatha marmorataon o…
Upper Waterton Lake, seen from the town
Common Raven in the sun
Maskinonge Lake, Waterton Lakes National Park
Red Baneberry, Waterton Lakes National Park
Forgetmenot Pond, Kananaskis
Forgetmenot Pond, Kananaskis
Elbow Falls, Kananaskis
Elbow Falls, Kananaskis
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Handsome buck
Friend, Gayle, made an appointment to go to the Cochrane Ecological Institute Centre the day before yesterday, 9 December 2017, and invited me to go along, too. I had longed to visit and, a few years ago, two friends and I were all set to go, but a major storm prevented us from going. It made an interesting morning, going on a tour of the grounds with our guide, Lisa Dahlseide. I know Lisa in connection with the Weaselhead Natural Area in Calgary and it was so nice to see that she was going to be our leader for this walk. She has such a wealth of knowledge and her personality is very much a "people person", including doing a lot of work with young children and nature. As well as being a busy mother of three young children, she is part time Naturalist with Weaselhead/Glenmore Park Preservation Society and the Education Director for the Cochrane Ecological Institute.
Unfortunately, I was too busy being distracted by taking photos of things, that I missed a lot of the explanations for the animals/birds that we saw. I always think that I will be able to find information once I get home and get on the Internet, but that doesn't always happen. "Wildlife" that we saw including several (4?) Bison that had originally been brought up from Waterton years ago; deer; several Wild Turkeys; two Great Horned Owls; and a pair of birds that I have never seen before - White Pheasants. I missed the explanation for these Pheasants, unfortunately.
After our visit to the Centre, we drove to Cochrane for an enjoyable lunch. Took a while to drive round looking for somewhere to eat - I had no idea that Cochrane had grown so much. Thanks so much, Gayle, for a different kind of day! Much enjoyed and appreciated.
vimeo.com/225317099
"The CEI (Cochrane Ecological Institute) is a family founded, charitable organization devoted to breeding endangered species for reintroduction, wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, and release, educating the public, monitoring habitat and species, and developing non intrusive wildlife survey methods. The CEI was founded (1971) by Miles and Beryl Smeeton and is now run by their daughter, Clio Smeeton. Miles and Beryl Smeeton were internationally known sailors, mountaineers, and explorers.
The Smeetons initiated the swift fox reintroduction program in Canada in 1972, six years before the species was declared extirpated in Canada. All animals held at the CEI are destined for reintroduction. They are not maintained for public exhibit, trade, or sale. Over the 26 years of its existence the CEI has also been an integral part of the Canadian Wildlife Service's Trumpeter swan (Cygnus bucinnator) and wood bison (B.b.athabascae) reintroduction programs, as well as playing a key role in the Canadian swift fox reintroduction program. The CEI is unique in that it holds the world's longest established (1972), largest (20 pairs), and only captive breeding colony of swift fox. These animals are bred solely for reintroduction as part of the CEI's ecosystem restoration program.
Internationally, as species and habitat vanish, the concept of ecosystem restoration through the reintroduction of indigenous flora and fauna, is gaining greater and greater prominence. The preservation of habitat without those species, which made that habitat a viable whole, is a sterile exercise." From the CEI's website.
www.ceinst.org/about-us.html
"Cochrane Ecological Institute's Swift Fox Reintroduction programs began in 1972 under the direction of Beryl and Miles Smeeton. Since that time 0ver 800 Swift fox were reintroduced to the Canadian Prairie. This has resulted in the Species being downlisted by the Canadian Government from Extirpated to Endangered.
In 1998 the CEI was invited by the Blackfeet Tribal Fish and Wildlife Department, Browning, Montana to join in a partnership to start the first swift fox re-introduction in the USA on the Blackfeet Tribal Lands. Defenders of Wildlife also became partners in this project and the first swift foxes were released on Blackfeet land in the fall of 1998.This program continued until 2003.
The CEI was requested to design and implement a Swift Fox reintroduction program on Blood reserve lands in Alberta Canada in 2003. This resulted in only a 2 year program because of complications resulting from permitting problems and the new Species at Risk Act in Canada." From the CEI website.
Unfortunately, I was too busy being distracted by taking photos of things, that I missed a lot of the explanations for the animals/birds that we saw. I always think that I will be able to find information once I get home and get on the Internet, but that doesn't always happen. "Wildlife" that we saw including several (4?) Bison that had originally been brought up from Waterton years ago; deer; several Wild Turkeys; two Great Horned Owls; and a pair of birds that I have never seen before - White Pheasants. I missed the explanation for these Pheasants, unfortunately.
After our visit to the Centre, we drove to Cochrane for an enjoyable lunch. Took a while to drive round looking for somewhere to eat - I had no idea that Cochrane had grown so much. Thanks so much, Gayle, for a different kind of day! Much enjoyed and appreciated.
vimeo.com/225317099
"The CEI (Cochrane Ecological Institute) is a family founded, charitable organization devoted to breeding endangered species for reintroduction, wildlife rescue, rehabilitation, and release, educating the public, monitoring habitat and species, and developing non intrusive wildlife survey methods. The CEI was founded (1971) by Miles and Beryl Smeeton and is now run by their daughter, Clio Smeeton. Miles and Beryl Smeeton were internationally known sailors, mountaineers, and explorers.
The Smeetons initiated the swift fox reintroduction program in Canada in 1972, six years before the species was declared extirpated in Canada. All animals held at the CEI are destined for reintroduction. They are not maintained for public exhibit, trade, or sale. Over the 26 years of its existence the CEI has also been an integral part of the Canadian Wildlife Service's Trumpeter swan (Cygnus bucinnator) and wood bison (B.b.athabascae) reintroduction programs, as well as playing a key role in the Canadian swift fox reintroduction program. The CEI is unique in that it holds the world's longest established (1972), largest (20 pairs), and only captive breeding colony of swift fox. These animals are bred solely for reintroduction as part of the CEI's ecosystem restoration program.
Internationally, as species and habitat vanish, the concept of ecosystem restoration through the reintroduction of indigenous flora and fauna, is gaining greater and greater prominence. The preservation of habitat without those species, which made that habitat a viable whole, is a sterile exercise." From the CEI's website.
www.ceinst.org/about-us.html
"Cochrane Ecological Institute's Swift Fox Reintroduction programs began in 1972 under the direction of Beryl and Miles Smeeton. Since that time 0ver 800 Swift fox were reintroduced to the Canadian Prairie. This has resulted in the Species being downlisted by the Canadian Government from Extirpated to Endangered.
In 1998 the CEI was invited by the Blackfeet Tribal Fish and Wildlife Department, Browning, Montana to join in a partnership to start the first swift fox re-introduction in the USA on the Blackfeet Tribal Lands. Defenders of Wildlife also became partners in this project and the first swift foxes were released on Blackfeet land in the fall of 1998.This program continued until 2003.
The CEI was requested to design and implement a Swift Fox reintroduction program on Blood reserve lands in Alberta Canada in 2003. This resulted in only a 2 year program because of complications resulting from permitting problems and the new Species at Risk Act in Canada." From the CEI website.
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