Hooded Merganser male
Winter walk in the park
Joy
Townsend's Solitaire / Myadestes townsendi
A most welcome find
Snowy Owl number 5
Two male Snowy Owls in the same field
You never know where you'll see a Snowy Owl
The end of an Artichoke
Common Redpoll in falling snow
Old barns in winter
Miniature horses in a winter playground
Yesterday's walk in Fish Creek Park
Pine Grosbeak male feeding on berries
A rare glimpse of a Steller's Jay
An old, abandoned Chevrolet
Pine Grosbeak female or juvenile
Silky Scorpionweed / Phacelia sericea, Pocaterra C…
Old and the new
Janet and a tiny friend
Barn of an unusual shape
Before winter arrived
A cute, young face
Yet another snowstorm
Boreal Chickadee, caught just in time
Hairy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker / Picoides villosus
Old wagon in winter
Bald Eagle after a cooling hosepipe shower
A beautiful sign of winter
Pine Grosbeak male / Pinicola enucleator
Cat at the Saskatoon Farm
Little country church
Posting just for the record
Young and innocent
The beauty of winter
Lacy curtain of ice
Red barn in winter
Whites and blues of winter
Better late than never
Ring-billed Gull
Country scene in winter
Meerkat from the archives
A white world
Sharp-tailed Grouse
A lucky Moose day
Deer on the horizon
The ever-present Black-capped Chickadee
Sharp-tailed Grouse
Old barns in the foothills
What is this?
Rusty and abandoned
Who am I?
Cute little thing
Winter's beauty
Plain, but welcome
A view from yesterday
A friendly moment
A favourite, well-kept barn
Coyote crossing the frozen Elbow River
With more big storms to come
Common Redpoll female
A beautiful day in Weaselhead
A rural Christmas
Rural decay
Northern Pygmy-owl
An upside-down kind of life
Cute and curious
A glimpse through the trees
In memory of my daughter
Pretty in the sunshine
On a New Year's Day Bird Count
On a brutally cold New Year's Day Count
Happy New Year, everyone!
An old dog named Fang
On a Christmas Bird Count, -23C
Handsome Pine Grosbeak male
Jackrabbit, seen in my car headlights
Red barn in winter
Love a Llama
Common Redpoll
Last night's snow .... and -29°C (windchill -38°C)
Trudging through the snow
Pine Grosbeak female
Mountain Chickadee / Poecile gambeli
Glorious scenery for a Christmas Bird Count!
Pine Grosbeaks
A welcome splash of colour
Barn with the fallen cupola
Back-lit White-tailed Deer
The final stage of an Artichoke
A simple, natural Christmas
Not quite Santa's reindeer
Beautiful and, oh, so cute
Happy Christmas Eve!
Snow-capped
Always a treat
Common Redpoll with an orange spot
Hungry Moose
King of silos
The birding blind at Frank Lake
Feeding frenzy - is the top right bird a Hoary Red…
A welcome addition to our Christmas Bird Count
In search of an owl - with permission
Birders on an Audubon Christmas Bird Count
Common Redpoll
Here comes the snow
Unexpected, and very welcome, Moose
The difference four days make
Farm cat
Under a Chinook arch
Handsome Mulie buck
A sunrise sky that lasted till sunset
"Just" a little House Sparrow
Fine old house
When the land turns white
I spy with my little eye
Little country church
Looking across the prairie
Young White-tailed Deer
Before the next snowfall
One of my favourite barns
Handsome - Norwegian Fjord Horse?
Wild Turkey at the Cochrane Ecological Institute
Blacksmith at work, Cochrane Ecological Institute
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The Bow River at Carburn Park
UPDATE about our friend, Mike Kelly, who amazingly survived an horrific vehicle accident (broken jaw, broken ankle and two broken legs), east of the city, in brutal, -30C weather. One of the two wonderful good Samaritans who saved his life turned up at Mike's hospital room! This will be so good for Mike, as he really, really wanted to meet his two life-savers and thank them in person. Hopefully, he will still get the chance to meet his other hero. We are all so grateful!
Three rather uninspiring photos posted this morning, mainly just as a record that I actually got out on a birding walk with a group of friends yesterday morning. Quite a photographic leap from the hot rainforest of Trinidad (posted yesterday) to the cold, winter sights of Calgary. One look at the weather forecast for this week and I decided that, if I was going to head over to Carburn Park, I had better do it yesterday. We are supposed to get snow this evening, overnight and the next two days. Temperature this overcast morning is -7C (windchill -15C), so not too bad.
The light was not good for photos yesterday morning and most of the birds were very distant, as usual, at this location. Funny how it always works - if one is walking along the edge of the river, the birds are mainly on the far side. We did see 29 bird species, though. My main reason for pushing myself out the front door was to catch up with friends.
Later in the day, a friend very kindly picked me up and we went to the meeting about the recent Christmas Bird Counts. What an enormous amount of detail and facts are collected each year - most impressive!
Three rather uninspiring photos posted this morning, mainly just as a record that I actually got out on a birding walk with a group of friends yesterday morning. Quite a photographic leap from the hot rainforest of Trinidad (posted yesterday) to the cold, winter sights of Calgary. One look at the weather forecast for this week and I decided that, if I was going to head over to Carburn Park, I had better do it yesterday. We are supposed to get snow this evening, overnight and the next two days. Temperature this overcast morning is -7C (windchill -15C), so not too bad.
The light was not good for photos yesterday morning and most of the birds were very distant, as usual, at this location. Funny how it always works - if one is walking along the edge of the river, the birds are mainly on the far side. We did see 29 bird species, though. My main reason for pushing myself out the front door was to catch up with friends.
Later in the day, a friend very kindly picked me up and we went to the meeting about the recent Christmas Bird Counts. What an enormous amount of detail and facts are collected each year - most impressive!
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