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
Purple Avens / Water Avens / Geum rivale
Common Raven at Bow Lake
Cute goat at Eagle Lake
Beginning to look like fall
Masked Cardinal, Trinidad
Yesterday's local walk
Yesterday's walk in Fish Creek Park
Old barns in winter
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
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Yesterday's COLD walk
I am posting these three photos this morning just for the record of yesterday's horribly cold walk in Fish Creek Park. The temperature was only around -15C (windchill was much colder!), but there was a light wind and it was the worst kind of cold.
Our walk started at the Ranch and, after just a short walk west in the hope of finding a Pileated Woodpecker that strangers had told us about, we made our way east to the Bow River. It looked as cold as it felt! Worth it, though, to see a Great Horned Owl at the start of our walk, perched very high up in a Spruce tree. There was a tangle of thin twigs right in front of its face, but the owl lowered its head just once to see us better and I clicked.
On the way to the river, we noticed, through the lightly-falling snow, several White-tailed Deer in the distance. Though the river was not frozen over, endless small pieces of ice were flowing fast, with a few ducks in the water, too. In this photo, if you look carefully, you can see two Bald Eagles perched in the trees on the far side of the river.
It was a long walk, two and a half hours, giving me the 10,000 steps for the day - which so very rarely happens these days (the last two years). Because there were so few birds to stop and watch, the walk was almost non-stop walking, which I always find difficult and painful. The only way to fix that was with a stop at Tim Horton's for coffee afterwards : ) Always just as enjoyable to sit and chat as it is to be on a walk itself.
Our walk started at the Ranch and, after just a short walk west in the hope of finding a Pileated Woodpecker that strangers had told us about, we made our way east to the Bow River. It looked as cold as it felt! Worth it, though, to see a Great Horned Owl at the start of our walk, perched very high up in a Spruce tree. There was a tangle of thin twigs right in front of its face, but the owl lowered its head just once to see us better and I clicked.
On the way to the river, we noticed, through the lightly-falling snow, several White-tailed Deer in the distance. Though the river was not frozen over, endless small pieces of ice were flowing fast, with a few ducks in the water, too. In this photo, if you look carefully, you can see two Bald Eagles perched in the trees on the far side of the river.
It was a long walk, two and a half hours, giving me the 10,000 steps for the day - which so very rarely happens these days (the last two years). Because there were so few birds to stop and watch, the walk was almost non-stop walking, which I always find difficult and painful. The only way to fix that was with a stop at Tim Horton's for coffee afterwards : ) Always just as enjoyable to sit and chat as it is to be on a walk itself.
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