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!
Gathering food for his babies
Tree Swallow male
Mountain Bluebird female
Remembering winter
Little country church, Carmangay
Yellow-headed Blackbird / Xanthocephalus xanthocep…
Great Gray Owl, highly zoomed
Old country church
Boreal Chickadee
Bald Eagle getting a hosepipe shower
Great Gray Owl hunting
Prairie life in winter
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
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This photo was taken in the afternoon of 6 November 2017, when I decided to dash out east of the city again. Most roads were clear of snow, apart from the gravel back roads, so I reckoned I had better make the most of it before the next snowfall. There were four barns and an old house that I had photographed on 27 October 2017 and I wanted to get them with snow on the ground. There was enough snow on the ground to make it look like winter, but not huge amounts yet. It was all I could do to walk along the road and take long enough to grab a few shots - it was so cold, and windy, too, which is never a good combination!
The one barn (not the collapsing one seen in this photo) was one that I had wanted to see for a number of years. A friend had posted a photo of an old barn and it turned out to be the very barn that I hadn't yet found. Without being asked, he told me exactly where it was. I had been looking for it just a few days before and must have missed it by just one road. I would love to have photographed it looking head on, but, as always, I stayed on the road to get my photos. The barn in this photo was in the same area.
Apart from one occasion, I had avoided driving east of the city from the south for a few years, as the roads are so confusing, with dozens of huge road signs and several massive overpasses. It is so easy to be in the wrong lane and take the wrong turn-off, which happened to me one time maybe a couple of years ago, twice in one day. That was enough to put me off trying again. However, finally having done it recently, I knew it was much faster to get out east that way. There are two tricky turn-offs and I almost missed both of them on my last trip. If there had been a lot of traffic, I would have been out of luck. The fact that the clocks have just been set back an hour didn't even cross my mind and I found myself driving back to the city when it was getting dark - making those huge road signs very difficult, if not impossible, to read!
No sign of wildlife, except for a flock of Gray Partridge that flushed up from the side of the road and flew and landed way out in a field. A couple of Ravens were the only other birds seen.
The one barn (not the collapsing one seen in this photo) was one that I had wanted to see for a number of years. A friend had posted a photo of an old barn and it turned out to be the very barn that I hadn't yet found. Without being asked, he told me exactly where it was. I had been looking for it just a few days before and must have missed it by just one road. I would love to have photographed it looking head on, but, as always, I stayed on the road to get my photos. The barn in this photo was in the same area.
Apart from one occasion, I had avoided driving east of the city from the south for a few years, as the roads are so confusing, with dozens of huge road signs and several massive overpasses. It is so easy to be in the wrong lane and take the wrong turn-off, which happened to me one time maybe a couple of years ago, twice in one day. That was enough to put me off trying again. However, finally having done it recently, I knew it was much faster to get out east that way. There are two tricky turn-offs and I almost missed both of them on my last trip. If there had been a lot of traffic, I would have been out of luck. The fact that the clocks have just been set back an hour didn't even cross my mind and I found myself driving back to the city when it was getting dark - making those huge road signs very difficult, if not impossible, to read!
No sign of wildlife, except for a flock of Gray Partridge that flushed up from the side of the road and flew and landed way out in a field. A couple of Ravens were the only other birds seen.
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