Great Gray Owl hunting
Bald Eagle getting a hosepipe shower
Boreal Chickadee
Old country church
Great Gray Owl, highly zoomed
On its way down
The beauty of Borage
Dreaming of spring and summer
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
Burrowing owl in the wild
European Starling / Sturnus vulgaris
Common Redpoll
Great Gray Owl
Donkey guardians of the old schoolhouse
Evening Grosbeak male
When the world turns white
Shoo-fly / Nicandra physalodes
Bear Grass, Waterton Lakes National Park
Wood Ducks
Sedge
Ghost Reservoir
A favourite old barn
Wild European Rabbit
The process of decay
Sunflower detail
A touch of blue
Hooded Merganser male
Ring-necked Pheasant male / Phasianus colchicus
Brewer's Blackbird / Euphagus cyanocephalus
Jackrabbit
Gathering lunch for his babies
A memory of Waterton from before the fire
One of yesterday's Great Horned Owls
The challenges of being a birder
Western Meadowlark
Standing up well
American White Pelicans, zoomed with Nikon B700
American White Pelicans with my old Panasonic FZ20…
Old barn in spring snow
A bright and cheery American Robin
American Kestrel
American White Pelicans, Nikon Coolpix B700
A rural "winter" scene
American Kestrel, Nikon B700
They call this spring?
American Kestrel, Panasonic FZ200
Almost missed, but gratefully seen
Togetherness
Common Merganser male
Another Pelican treat
Little angel
They're back : )
Milk Thistle, I believe
Goodbye, winter - so glad you are gone!
Great Gray Owl, watching and listening
Great Gray Owl #2
Great Gray Owl #1
Yellow-bellied Marmot
Burrowing Owl in the wild
Caught in a mesocyclone
Rolling hills from the Whaleback
Tent Caterpillar
Plant from the Whaleback
Nibbling on a tasty leaf
Brewer's Blackbird
A scene in the Whaleback area
Rose-breasted Grosbeak from the archives
Ruddy Duck from the archives
A beautiful day in Weaselhead
Common Redpoll female
With more big storms to come
Coyote crossing the frozen Elbow River
A favourite, well-kept barn
A friendly moment
A view from yesterday
Plain, but welcome
Winter's beauty
Cute little thing
Who am I?
Rusty and abandoned
What is this?
Old barns in the foothills
Sharp-tailed Grouse
The ever-present Black-capped Chickadee
Deer on the horizon
A lucky Moose day
Sharp-tailed Grouse
A white world
Meerkat from the archives
Country scene in winter
Ring-billed Gull
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
Little country church
Cat at the Saskatoon Farm
Pine Grosbeak male / Pinicola enucleator
A beautiful sign of winter
Bald Eagle after a cooling hosepipe shower
Old wagon in winter
Hairy Woodpecker / Picoides villosus
Hairy Woodpecker
Boreal Chickadee, caught just in time
Yet another snowstorm
A cute, young face
Before winter arrived
Barn of an unusual shape
Janet and a tiny friend
Old and the new
Silky Scorpionweed / Phacelia sericea, Pocaterra C…
Pine Grosbeak female or juvenile
An old, abandoned Chevrolet
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Prairie life in winter
Flickr problems, yet again!
Today, 15 March 2018, Calgary is under yet another Snowfall Warning, and it has been snowing all morning. Snowfall, with total amounts of 10 to 20 cm is expected. Heavy snowfall will continue over much of southern Alberta today. At this time of year, we tend to get snow, then it melts or starts to melt, then it snows again, and so on. Yesterday, I had to get across the city and was amazed that there was hardly any snow left in many places. I don't know how so much snow could just disappear like that, especially leaving no flooding. To think, one year ago today, I was standing on a tropical beach on the island of Tobago : )
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 "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. 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 some of us 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 - a lone one 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. This day, the weather was so bad that most 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!
Today, 15 March 2018, Calgary is under yet another Snowfall Warning, and it has been snowing all morning. Snowfall, with total amounts of 10 to 20 cm is expected. Heavy snowfall will continue over much of southern Alberta today. At this time of year, we tend to get snow, then it melts or starts to melt, then it snows again, and so on. Yesterday, I had to get across the city and was amazed that there was hardly any snow left in many places. I don't know how so much snow could just disappear like that, especially leaving no flooding. To think, one year ago today, I was standing on a tropical beach on the island of Tobago : )
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 "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. 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 some of us 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 - a lone one 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. This day, the weather was so bad that most 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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