Red barn in winter
Whites and blues of winter
Better late than never
Country scene in winter
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?
Winter's beauty
Plain, but welcome
A view from yesterday
Coyote crossing the frozen Elbow River
With more big storms to come
Common Redpoll female
A beautiful day in Weaselhead
Great Gray Owl #1
Great Gray Owl #2
Great Gray Owl, watching and listening
Prairie life in winter
Great Gray Owl hunting
Boreal Chickadee
Great Gray Owl, highly zoomed
Great Gray Owl on the hunt
Far, far away
Pileated Woodpecker seen in Canmore
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 :)
Pileated Woodpecker
Common Redpoll
Great Gray Owl
One of two Coyotes
Sleepy Great Horned Owl
When the world turns white
Goodbye, winter - so glad you are gone!
Remembering winter
Beauty of winter (well, late fall)
Evening Grosbeak male, Priddis Count
Have you ever seen a furry pig?
A favourite old barn
Christmas Llama - oops, Bird! - Count
Blue Jay / Cyanocitta cristata
Mountain Chickadee feeding on suet
Llama in winter
Up close with a Llama
Llama
Overload of Llamas : )
The white Llama
Boldly red
Llama beauty
A quick drive-by shot
Disappearing into nothingness
Frosted chin whiskers
Red barn through the fog
The beauty of winter
Young and innocent
Posting just for the record
Pine Grosbeak male / Pinicola enucleator
A beautiful sign of winter
Old wagon in winter
Hairy Woodpecker / Picoides villosus
Hairy Woodpecker
Boreal Chickadee, caught just in time
Yet another snowstorm
Curious glance from a Great Horned Owl
White-tailed Deer through the snow
Yesterday's COLD walk
Winter beauty
Juvenile Northern Goshawk, feeding
Yesterday's local walk
Janet and a tiny friend
Pine Grosbeak female or juvenile
A rare glimpse of a Steller's Jay
Pine Grosbeak male feeding on berries
Yesterday's walk in Fish Creek Park
Miniature horses in a winter playground
Old barns in winter
You never know where you'll see a Snowy Owl
Two male Snowy Owls in the same field
Snowy Owl number 5
A most welcome find
Townsend's Solitaire / Myadestes townsendi
Joy
Winter walk in the park
A rural Christmas
An upside-down kind of life
A glimpse through the trees
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
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
The fun times are over
Black farm cat
A peaceful winter scene
Popcan-sized Northern Pygmy-owl, from January 2015
Northern Hawk Owl with woodland bokeh
A distant shot from my archives
False eyes and real eyes
One of my favourite views
Boreal Chickadee
01 Barred Owl
02 Bald Eagle in late afternoon sun
Northern Pygmy-owl
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Lacy curtain of ice
Around 1:30 this morning, when I had just finished editing photos to post today, I checked on the temperature. It was -25C, with a windchill of -34C! Last night, the forecast for today said -4C for this afternoon, but right now, at 9:30 am, it it still -24C, windchill -33C.
I'm glad of a warm image to post in between two cold photos taken yesterday, 11 February 2018, when I joined several friends for a cold, afternoon walk at Griffith Woods. One reason I decided to go was so that I could take a few photos to check a camera that I had collected the day before, after being 'repaired'. Long story, which I will have to add later today, if I decide to finally go for a drive this afternoon. I haven't driven anywhere out of the city since 17 December, when my daughter and I went SE of the city for our "Christmas" together. All the settings on my returned camera had been changed and I didn't notice that it was no longer on a 4:3 ratio. Hence two wide images today. These lacy icicles were hanging from someone's wooden fence.
Much later: as for my camera issue, mentioned above, I had bought a Panasonic FZ1000 over a year ago, so that I would have a back-up camera to my old FZ200, ready for my trip with friends to Trinidad & Tobago in March 2017. I didn't get the chance to try out the FZ1000 for many weeks, as I was so busy preparing for my trip. When I finally did take a few test photos, I discovered that on Playback, the camera would show a photo or two and then jump one. It kept doing this throughout the Playback. All the photos were there when I downloaded them to my computer, but I couldn't see every photo in Playback, unless I changed the direction and tried again, which was a perfect nuisance. As soon as I discovered this fault, I went back to the store and asked what would need to be done. I was told that the camera would have to be sent for repair, but I could not risk not getting the camera back in time for my trip. Anyway, finally in December, I took the camera back for the store to send it off for repair. The young guy didn't send a copy of the receipt, etc. with the camera and next thing I know is that I get a phone call saying that the repair estimate was $700+!! What! The camera was still under warranty, but the repair place didn't know this because the receipt wasn't sent. Two or three weeks later, I got a call to say that the camera was ready for pick-up. I was so glad to get it back, but that feeling was very short-lived when I discovered that Playback was still skipping images!! So what happens now? I guess they will want to send it off again. Various friends have the FZ1000 and love it - I really like the colour and image quality, but this whole fault and repair problem is giving me stress that I definitely don't need.
I ended up going for a drive SW of the city this afternoon, to my 'usual' area, partly just to get a change of scenery. Almost no wildlife to be seen, other than a Raven, a Magpie, a Rough-legged Hawk perched at the top of a tall tree, and a couple of small, unidentified birds that flew across the road ahead of me. Still, I did take a handful of winter scenic shots and a couple of barns/sheds.
To drown my sorrows over not being able to find any owls of any kind, I decided to call in at a small cafe/restaurant in the area and brought home a bowl of delicious chili with garlic bread. Made an enjoyable ending to my afternoon drive.
I'm glad of a warm image to post in between two cold photos taken yesterday, 11 February 2018, when I joined several friends for a cold, afternoon walk at Griffith Woods. One reason I decided to go was so that I could take a few photos to check a camera that I had collected the day before, after being 'repaired'. Long story, which I will have to add later today, if I decide to finally go for a drive this afternoon. I haven't driven anywhere out of the city since 17 December, when my daughter and I went SE of the city for our "Christmas" together. All the settings on my returned camera had been changed and I didn't notice that it was no longer on a 4:3 ratio. Hence two wide images today. These lacy icicles were hanging from someone's wooden fence.
Much later: as for my camera issue, mentioned above, I had bought a Panasonic FZ1000 over a year ago, so that I would have a back-up camera to my old FZ200, ready for my trip with friends to Trinidad & Tobago in March 2017. I didn't get the chance to try out the FZ1000 for many weeks, as I was so busy preparing for my trip. When I finally did take a few test photos, I discovered that on Playback, the camera would show a photo or two and then jump one. It kept doing this throughout the Playback. All the photos were there when I downloaded them to my computer, but I couldn't see every photo in Playback, unless I changed the direction and tried again, which was a perfect nuisance. As soon as I discovered this fault, I went back to the store and asked what would need to be done. I was told that the camera would have to be sent for repair, but I could not risk not getting the camera back in time for my trip. Anyway, finally in December, I took the camera back for the store to send it off for repair. The young guy didn't send a copy of the receipt, etc. with the camera and next thing I know is that I get a phone call saying that the repair estimate was $700+!! What! The camera was still under warranty, but the repair place didn't know this because the receipt wasn't sent. Two or three weeks later, I got a call to say that the camera was ready for pick-up. I was so glad to get it back, but that feeling was very short-lived when I discovered that Playback was still skipping images!! So what happens now? I guess they will want to send it off again. Various friends have the FZ1000 and love it - I really like the colour and image quality, but this whole fault and repair problem is giving me stress that I definitely don't need.
I ended up going for a drive SW of the city this afternoon, to my 'usual' area, partly just to get a change of scenery. Almost no wildlife to be seen, other than a Raven, a Magpie, a Rough-legged Hawk perched at the top of a tall tree, and a couple of small, unidentified birds that flew across the road ahead of me. Still, I did take a handful of winter scenic shots and a couple of barns/sheds.
To drown my sorrows over not being able to find any owls of any kind, I decided to call in at a small cafe/restaurant in the area and brought home a bowl of delicious chili with garlic bread. Made an enjoyable ending to my afternoon drive.
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