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
Hoar frost tree and vanishing fields
Horse and hoar frost
Old red barn on a foggy day
A 'new' old homestead
Male Snowy Owl
The beauty of hoar frost
Male Snowy Owl
Short-eared Owl
A lucky Moose day
Sharp-tailed Grouse
A white world
Country scene in winter
Better late than never
Whites and blues of winter
Red barn in winter
Lacy curtain of ice
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
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Deer on the horizon
Two days ago, on 17 February 2018, a small group of us headed way SW of the city - and into yet another snow storm. I kept checking to see if the trip was going to be cancelled, but fortunately, our leader had only read about the "few flurries" for the day. I had read further detail that said that a huge snow storm was moving into the area, bringing up to 25 cm of fresh snow, poor visibility, white-outs, treacherous roads! I knew taking photos was going to be a challenge, and seeing anything in the first place was going to be an even bigger challenge. So glad we went, though - even more so, that I wasn't driving, other than to our local meeting place in the city.
The main reason for the trip was to look for Golden Eagles, though of course we were happy to see anything else, too. Last year, we saw five, but this time we couldn't find any. With such poor visibility, they could still have been out there.
We did see Bald Eagles, though, and quite a few (mainly very distant) Sharp-tailed Grouse. At one location, they were on the road way ahead of us. I was able to get two or three closer shots of one of them, and managed to sharpen the 'best' one as much as I could, enough to make it just about fit to post yesterday. They are such beautiful birds. I thought we might see some small birds during the day, but we saw no Snow Buntings or Horned Larks. A very distant Great Horned Owl was seen in the yard at one of the places we always used to call in at when we were doing the annual Christmas Bird Count for the area. Also spotted a distant Merlin perched in a bare-branched tree.
Three Moose were seen - one on its own and two others together at a different location. The one on its own had been standing but took a few steps and lay down in the deep snow. The other two were spotted when we were almost at the top of a steep, snow-covered back road. Our leader slowed down and, though I normally don't ask someone if they would stop for something, I did so this time. Oops, sorry, Tony, lol! We were stuck, unable to continue our climb to the top of the steep hill. Luckily, Tony is really good at reversing (and trying again)! There were also many Mule Deer to be seen, especially along the coulee.
I love the landscape in this whole area and always enjoy photographing it. On this day, the weather was so bad that much of the landscape was just a faint shape in the distance, or else had completely vanished. Sometimes, it was difficult to tell if the distant shapes were actually hills or clouds!
A great day, despite the weather. Thanks so much, Tony, for the ride and for another most enjoyable day!
The main reason for the trip was to look for Golden Eagles, though of course we were happy to see anything else, too. Last year, we saw five, but this time we couldn't find any. With such poor visibility, they could still have been out there.
We did see Bald Eagles, though, and quite a few (mainly very distant) Sharp-tailed Grouse. At one location, they were on the road way ahead of us. I was able to get two or three closer shots of one of them, and managed to sharpen the 'best' one as much as I could, enough to make it just about fit to post yesterday. They are such beautiful birds. I thought we might see some small birds during the day, but we saw no Snow Buntings or Horned Larks. A very distant Great Horned Owl was seen in the yard at one of the places we always used to call in at when we were doing the annual Christmas Bird Count for the area. Also spotted a distant Merlin perched in a bare-branched tree.
Three Moose were seen - one on its own and two others together at a different location. The one on its own had been standing but took a few steps and lay down in the deep snow. The other two were spotted when we were almost at the top of a steep, snow-covered back road. Our leader slowed down and, though I normally don't ask someone if they would stop for something, I did so this time. Oops, sorry, Tony, lol! We were stuck, unable to continue our climb to the top of the steep hill. Luckily, Tony is really good at reversing (and trying again)! There were also many Mule Deer to be seen, especially along the coulee.
I love the landscape in this whole area and always enjoy photographing it. On this day, the weather was so bad that much of the landscape was just a faint shape in the distance, or else had completely vanished. Sometimes, it was difficult to tell if the distant shapes were actually hills or clouds!
A great day, despite the weather. Thanks so much, Tony, for the ride and for another most enjoyable day!
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