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
Short-eared Owl
Prairie Falcon - Status: SENSITIVE, Species of Spe…
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Snowy Owl 1st year male, Snowy Owl Prowl 2019
Snowy Owl male, Snowy Owl Prowl 2019
Snowy Owl 1st year male, Snowy Owl Prowl 2019
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Peace in the countryside
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Long-eared Owl
Helmeted Guineafowl
Short-eared Owl - from January
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Farmyard friends
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Wide open spaces
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
A face only a mother could love
Northern Pygmy-owl - from the archives
Northern Pygmy-owl - from the archives
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl out on a tree limb
One of two Coyotes
Great Gray Owl
Common Redpoll
Pileated Woodpecker
On the way to Canmore - seven Swans a-swimming :)
Great Gray Owl
Winter beauty
Red Fox (just for the record)
Twice the beauty
Bighorn Sheep mom and youngster
Pileated Woodpecker seen in Canmore
Far, far away
Great Gray Owl on the hunt
Great Gray Owl, highly zoomed
Boreal Chickadee
Great Gray Owl hunting
Prairie life in winter
Great Gray Owl, watching and listening
Great Gray Owl #2
Great Gray Owl #1
A beautiful day in Weaselhead
Common Redpoll female
With more big storms to come
Coyote crossing the frozen Elbow River
A view from yesterday
Plain, but welcome
Winter's beauty
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
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
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Sleepy Great Horned Owl
Yesterday was Easter Sunday (as well as being April Fool's Day). I decided to join friends for an afternoon walk in Fish Creek Park, despite the overcast sky, cold temperature and a forecast for yet more snow. We only had a few snowflakes and this morning, there is just a light dusting over everything. The temperature this morning, 2 April 2018, is -9C (windchill -14C). The forecast for this week shows snow every other day.
One of our stops yesterday was to see the male Great Horned Owl, perched where he was almost impossible to see, his camouflage was so good. This was the only photo I got, fully zoomed and from far away. Those eyes looked tightly shut and he was no doubt getting some sleep after a busy night of hunting.
We were also lucky to see two Coyotes together, at first way off in the distance and then they came somewhat closer. Beautiful animals, though we were concerned to see them in the area, having been asked by a family if we had seen their puppy that had run off from the parking lot. We kept our eyes open for the two and a half hours that we were walking, but we saw the family still searching. To spot a white dog against all the snow would have been difficult, and it wasn't answering to its name being called. I do hope this had a happy ending!
Migrating birds are beginning to be seen in and around Calgary - but, let's face it, who in their right mind would want to come to a place where spring is still an ongoing time of cold and snow?!
After braving the cold, coffee at Tim Horton's was the perfect ending to our afternoon of birding. On the way there, we stopped to look at a new birding blind that we had heard about. Made from rusty metal with several holes cut out of it, it was certainly a rather unusual sight. Thanks, Bernie and Janet, for leading the walk - always appreciated.
One of our stops yesterday was to see the male Great Horned Owl, perched where he was almost impossible to see, his camouflage was so good. This was the only photo I got, fully zoomed and from far away. Those eyes looked tightly shut and he was no doubt getting some sleep after a busy night of hunting.
We were also lucky to see two Coyotes together, at first way off in the distance and then they came somewhat closer. Beautiful animals, though we were concerned to see them in the area, having been asked by a family if we had seen their puppy that had run off from the parking lot. We kept our eyes open for the two and a half hours that we were walking, but we saw the family still searching. To spot a white dog against all the snow would have been difficult, and it wasn't answering to its name being called. I do hope this had a happy ending!
Migrating birds are beginning to be seen in and around Calgary - but, let's face it, who in their right mind would want to come to a place where spring is still an ongoing time of cold and snow?!
After braving the cold, coffee at Tim Horton's was the perfect ending to our afternoon of birding. On the way there, we stopped to look at a new birding blind that we had heard about. Made from rusty metal with several holes cut out of it, it was certainly a rather unusual sight. Thanks, Bernie and Janet, for leading the walk - always appreciated.
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