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
Tall grass, Pt Pelee - Phragmites
A favourite view, Waterton Lakes National Park
Swainson's Hawk take-off
On the way home from Cartwrights' land
On the way home from Cartwright bio-blitz
Friends at Bow Lake
Beautiful Peyto Lake
You never know where you'll see a Snowy Owl
A most welcome find
Tree stump covered in fungi, Trinidad
The Bow River at Carburn Park
A rural Christmas
On a New Year's Day Bird Count
Happy New Year, everyone!
On a Christmas Bird Count, -23C
Love a Llama
Glorious scenery for a Christmas Bird Count!
Barn with the fallen cupola
When the land turns white
Dazzling sunlight on distant peaks
Standing at the edge of the storm
A white world
A patch of blue
Behind the tangled branches
Walking in a winter wonderland
A country scene
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
Early morning sunrise over the mountains
Storm arriving at Quarry Lake, near Canmore
A drive through Kananaskis
Town of Canmore, Alberta
When the storm moved in
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
Side by side
Friendly visitor
Fish Creek Park on a low-light day
A mountain meadow, Kananaskis, Alberta
Cattle drive in the mountains of Kananaskis, Alber…
Heading for the mountains on a hazy morning
Kananaskis before the snowstorm
Before the snow arrived
Beautiful Mule Deer doe
Things are not always what they seem
Ah, those glorious Larches in their fall colours
The colours of fall
Waterton Lake from the townsite - before the fire
In the middle of nowhere - spot the truck
Owl and spider webs
Road through Kananaskis
Our precious Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta…
Walker House, Inglewood Bird Sanctuary
Yesteryear, in Alberta
Sheep on a smoky day
On the way down
Scenery along Highway 40, Kananaskis
A favourite road
See also...
Cochrane Wildlife Reserve Christmas Bird Count, December 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018
Cochrane Wildlife Reserve Christmas Bird Count, December 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018
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Old barns in winter
If it looks cold, it's because it WAS cold - brutally cold!
This photo was taken on 29 December 2017, when four of us (using just one car) took part in the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count for the Cochrane Wildlife Reserve area. I'm not sure why it's called Wildlife Reserve, as it consists of back roads and farms just like on our other Counts. The area we covered (right on the east edge of the count circle) was east of Highway 22/Cowboy Trail. I added a touch of filter in post-processing, as the barns needed a bit sharper detail.
The first evidence of any wildlife for me, first thing in the morning, was a Jackrabbit that was nibbling on snow-covered plants right outside our leader's house. Of course, at 7:15 in the morning, it was still dark.
One of my favourite things to photograph on this annual Count are the Llamas at one of the farms.. This farmer has several of these large, amusing animals, and they are always one of the highlights of this Count for me. I'm not sure how many Llamas they have - somewhere around 7? Most of these animals were given to them by other farmers who no longer wanted them.
"Llamas appear to have originated from the central plains of North America about 40 million years ago. They migrated to South America and Asia about 3 million years ago. By the end of the last ice age (10,000–12,000 years ago) camelids were extinct in North America. As of 2007, there were over 7 million llamas and alpacas in South America and, due to importation from South America in the late 20th century, there are now over 100,000 llamas and 6,500–7,000 alpacas in the US and Canada." From Wikipedia.
One of my favourite farms to stop at has a beautiful, old dog named Fang, along with beautiful cats, and I always look forward to seeing them each year. This day, though, with a temperature of -23C all day (windchill probably at least -30 to 35C), cats stayed indoors. I caught a brief glimpse of only one cat outside. The neighbouring farm, which is also included in our area, has two beautiful old, red barns and I was longing to see these again. Unfortunately, no one was home, so we couldn't search the farmyard, but I did get the chance to take two rapid shots through the trees of one of the barns, from a side view.
Another farm we stopped at had beautiful Pine Grosbeaks and Common Redpolls coming to a feeder. A joy to see these splashes of colour in a very cold, white, white world.
So, it was a very enjoyable day, though there were not all that many species or individual birds to be seen. Too cold and too much snow to spend much time searching various farmyards, and we had finished the Count by 2:30 pm. I will add a list of the bird species seen, in a comment box below. Many thanks, Dave, for driving us. You did a great job of handling roads that were not in the greatest condition, and it was greatly appreciated. The light was awful all day, and it was so difficult to see where the ditch was and where one road turned off to another. There is no way I would ever try driving on our back roads in such weather! Also, a huge thank-you to the various landowners who were kind enough to allow us to wander round their farmyards. These visits make our day so much more interesting and rewarding!
This photo was taken on 29 December 2017, when four of us (using just one car) took part in the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count for the Cochrane Wildlife Reserve area. I'm not sure why it's called Wildlife Reserve, as it consists of back roads and farms just like on our other Counts. The area we covered (right on the east edge of the count circle) was east of Highway 22/Cowboy Trail. I added a touch of filter in post-processing, as the barns needed a bit sharper detail.
The first evidence of any wildlife for me, first thing in the morning, was a Jackrabbit that was nibbling on snow-covered plants right outside our leader's house. Of course, at 7:15 in the morning, it was still dark.
One of my favourite things to photograph on this annual Count are the Llamas at one of the farms.. This farmer has several of these large, amusing animals, and they are always one of the highlights of this Count for me. I'm not sure how many Llamas they have - somewhere around 7? Most of these animals were given to them by other farmers who no longer wanted them.
"Llamas appear to have originated from the central plains of North America about 40 million years ago. They migrated to South America and Asia about 3 million years ago. By the end of the last ice age (10,000–12,000 years ago) camelids were extinct in North America. As of 2007, there were over 7 million llamas and alpacas in South America and, due to importation from South America in the late 20th century, there are now over 100,000 llamas and 6,500–7,000 alpacas in the US and Canada." From Wikipedia.
One of my favourite farms to stop at has a beautiful, old dog named Fang, along with beautiful cats, and I always look forward to seeing them each year. This day, though, with a temperature of -23C all day (windchill probably at least -30 to 35C), cats stayed indoors. I caught a brief glimpse of only one cat outside. The neighbouring farm, which is also included in our area, has two beautiful old, red barns and I was longing to see these again. Unfortunately, no one was home, so we couldn't search the farmyard, but I did get the chance to take two rapid shots through the trees of one of the barns, from a side view.
Another farm we stopped at had beautiful Pine Grosbeaks and Common Redpolls coming to a feeder. A joy to see these splashes of colour in a very cold, white, white world.
So, it was a very enjoyable day, though there were not all that many species or individual birds to be seen. Too cold and too much snow to spend much time searching various farmyards, and we had finished the Count by 2:30 pm. I will add a list of the bird species seen, in a comment box below. Many thanks, Dave, for driving us. You did a great job of handling roads that were not in the greatest condition, and it was greatly appreciated. The light was awful all day, and it was so difficult to see where the ditch was and where one road turned off to another. There is no way I would ever try driving on our back roads in such weather! Also, a huge thank-you to the various landowners who were kind enough to allow us to wander round their farmyards. These visits make our day so much more interesting and rewarding!
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