The Bow River at Carburn Park
Tree stump covered in fungi, Trinidad
A most welcome find
You never know where you'll see a Snowy Owl
Old barns in winter
Yesterday's walk in Fish Creek Park
Yesterday's local walk
Masked Cardinal, Trinidad
Yesterday's COLD walk
White-tailed Deer through the snow
02 Boat ride through the Caroni Swamp
Masked Cardinal at the edge of Caroni Swamp
Friend on boat at Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Two Tropical Screech Owls, Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
(Ruschenberger?)Tree Boa, Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Boat ride to see Scarlet Ibis, Caroni Swamp, Trini…
(Ruschenberger?) Tree Boa, Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Barn of an unusual shape
Surprise, surprise ... an American Flamingo, Caron…
Rainforest of the Arima Valley, Trinidad
The beauty of winter
Red barn in winter
Masked Cardinal / Paroaria nigrogenis, Trinidad
Scarlet Ibis, Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Scarlet Ibis - like decorations on a Christmas tre…
Old barns in the foothills
Yellow Oriole / Icterus nigrogularis, Trinidad
Rusty and abandoned
Scarlet Ibis and Egrets, Caroni Swamp
A friendly moment
Scarlet Ibis, Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Our last morning on island of Trinidad
Ruddy Ground-dove / Columbina talpacoti, Trinidad
Masked Cardinal, Caroni Swamp
A rainbow and a Hummingbird wave
Coyote crossing the frozen Elbow River
With more big storms to come
A beautiful day in Weaselhead
Yellow Oriole, Trinidad
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
Red Fox (just for the record)
Winter beauty
Great Gray Owl
On the way to Canmore - seven Swans a-swimming :)
New birding blind in a local park
Donkey guardians of the old schoolhouse
When the world turns white
A memory of Waterton from before the fire
Evening mist in the rainforest
Old barn in spring snow
A rural "winter" scene
Yellow Oriole, Trinidad
Remembering winter
Masked Cardinal, Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Once was home
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Love a Llama
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Barn with the fallen cupola
When the land turns white
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Autumn in Alberta
A peaceful winter scene
Common Redpoll / Acanthis flammea
The beauty of erosion
Alberta foothills in the fall
Start of the storm
Common Redpolls / Acanthis flammea
Hello, winter
And down(y) he flew
International Loadstar 1600
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Storm arriving at Quarry Lake, near Canmore
A drive through Kananaskis
Town of Canmore, Alberta
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Pam and friend
Sun halo over Glenmore Reservoir
A view from Quarry Lake, Canmore
A new-to-me old barn
Complete with little red birdhouse
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Friendly visitor
Fish Creek Park on a low-light day
A mountain meadow, Kananaskis, Alberta
Cattle drive in the mountains of Kananaskis, Alber…
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Waterton Lake from the townsite - before the fire
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Road through Kananaskis
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Walker House, Inglewood Bird Sanctuary
Yesteryear, in Alberta
Sheep on a smoky day
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Scenery along Highway 40, Kananaskis
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Waiting for the herd to descend
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A rural Christmas
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HELP is needed to find the two amazing men who stopped (in brutal, -30C weather) to help save the life of one of our birder/photographer friends, who was in a very serious vehicle accident east of the city. Mike (Mike Kelly on Flickr), who is in hospital with a broken jaw, broken wrist, and two broken legs, really, really wants to meet his two rescuers so that he can thank them in person for saving his life. Everyone is using the social media on Facebook in an attempt to find these two good Samaritans, and I thought I would add it here, too, in the hope that someone out there might just know the hoped-for information. It would mean so much to Mike! His many friends would be so happy, too. I will add the link to today's Global TV News article. Of course, it is possible that the two rescuers might have seen the News and hopefully come forward. Mike thinks that one of them might live in British Columbia, the province to the west of us.
globalnews.ca/news/3949198/calgarian-who-barely-survived-...
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I happened to come across this photo last night while searching for certain other shots. Kind of late for Christmas, but I thought it was such a cute scene.
On 2 February 2014, a group of us went on an annual birding trip west of the city, that is normally to the Sibbald Creek area, Exshaw and Harvie Heights. This year, though, we drove around the Water Valley area (NW of Calgary) first and then went straight on to Harvie Heights. Very few birds to be seen in either area, but of course it was wonderful to get out to these places, in good company. At Harvie Heights, near Canmore (near Banff), there were no Grosbeaks, no Clark's Nutcrackers, etc.. The same has been true for so many walks and outings these days - where are all the birds? The day before this trip, a group of people went to a local city park and, in just under three hours of walking, saw only five species of bird.
The following is the report complied by trip leader, Andrew Hart. Thanks for a great day, as always, Andrew!
"Twelve of us set out on a sunny but chilly day with temperatures ranging from -14 deg C to -8 deg C. We started off by driving around in the area to the south of Water Valley as far as the Bates Ranch. We were hoping to find owls, but despite visiting several known previous sighting locations, came up short. We did see several Ravens and Magpies, some Blue Jays (at the Winchell Lake Estates), Black Capped Chickadees, a Rough Legged Hawk, Pileated Woodpecker, and Hairy Woodpecker. We also saw a Coyote.
After lunch we went further south and encountered a family of 6-8 Gray Jays near the Bates Ranch.
We then headed to Harvie Heights. En route we passed a road-killed deer swarming with 20 Ravens, and a Coyote angling to see them off. We also saw two Bald Eagles.
At Harvie Heights we saw several Mountain and Black Capped Chickadees, a Brown Creeper, Pine Siskins, Dark Eyed Juncos, and Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers (the Woodpeckers seen by Phil Quin at a feeder by the hamlet entrance that the rest of us drove past). No Pine Grosbeaks (not that much of a surprise this year) and no Clark's Nutcrackers (more of a surprise).
The incredible sunlit snow blanketed scenery made up for the relative shortcomings in bird species."
globalnews.ca/news/3949198/calgarian-who-barely-survived-...
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I happened to come across this photo last night while searching for certain other shots. Kind of late for Christmas, but I thought it was such a cute scene.
On 2 February 2014, a group of us went on an annual birding trip west of the city, that is normally to the Sibbald Creek area, Exshaw and Harvie Heights. This year, though, we drove around the Water Valley area (NW of Calgary) first and then went straight on to Harvie Heights. Very few birds to be seen in either area, but of course it was wonderful to get out to these places, in good company. At Harvie Heights, near Canmore (near Banff), there were no Grosbeaks, no Clark's Nutcrackers, etc.. The same has been true for so many walks and outings these days - where are all the birds? The day before this trip, a group of people went to a local city park and, in just under three hours of walking, saw only five species of bird.
The following is the report complied by trip leader, Andrew Hart. Thanks for a great day, as always, Andrew!
"Twelve of us set out on a sunny but chilly day with temperatures ranging from -14 deg C to -8 deg C. We started off by driving around in the area to the south of Water Valley as far as the Bates Ranch. We were hoping to find owls, but despite visiting several known previous sighting locations, came up short. We did see several Ravens and Magpies, some Blue Jays (at the Winchell Lake Estates), Black Capped Chickadees, a Rough Legged Hawk, Pileated Woodpecker, and Hairy Woodpecker. We also saw a Coyote.
After lunch we went further south and encountered a family of 6-8 Gray Jays near the Bates Ranch.
We then headed to Harvie Heights. En route we passed a road-killed deer swarming with 20 Ravens, and a Coyote angling to see them off. We also saw two Bald Eagles.
At Harvie Heights we saw several Mountain and Black Capped Chickadees, a Brown Creeper, Pine Siskins, Dark Eyed Juncos, and Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers (the Woodpeckers seen by Phil Quin at a feeder by the hamlet entrance that the rest of us drove past). No Pine Grosbeaks (not that much of a surprise this year) and no Clark's Nutcrackers (more of a surprise).
The incredible sunlit snow blanketed scenery made up for the relative shortcomings in bird species."
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