The process of decay
Sunflower detail
Brewer's Blackbird / Euphagus cyanocephalus
Jackrabbit
A memory of Waterton from before the fire
Little angel
Milk Thistle, I believe
Gathering food for his babies
Orange Peel Fungus, Peyto Lake
Bow Lake, Alberta
Clark's Nutcracker / Nucifraga columbiana
Bow Lake
Swainson's Hawk take-off
Happy Canada Day
The start of a great day
Western Wood Lily
On the way home from Cartwrights' land
On the way home from Cartwright bio-blitz
Friends at Bow Lake
Yellow Penstemon with wildflower bokeh
Beautiful Peyto Lake
Black Bear seen through the bus window
Lichen at Peyto Lake
Disappearing
Wildflowers at Peyto Lake
Reflected peaks
Purple Martin, Ellis Bird Farm, Alberta
Purple Martin in its gourd nest box
One Eyed Sphinx Moth / Smerinthus cerisyi
Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel munching on Yellow…
Cedar Waxwing / Bombycilla cedrorum
American Goldfinch male
Love an old, red barn
Purple Martin male
Coral Fungus
Purple Avens / Water Avens / Geum rivale
Tiny spider with a death wish
Calgary's special guests
Common Raven at Bow Lake
Black Bear seen from the bus
Bow Lake on a cloudy day
Chameleon
Glorious Canola
Ruddy Duck male
Black-crowned Night-heron
Himalayan monal / Lophophorus impejanus male
Mountain Bluebird with food for his babies
Invasive Yellow Clematis
Botanizing Beagles - Ben and Maggie
Nodding Thistle / Musk Thistle / Carduus nutans
A beautiful catch
Baneberry, white berries
Baneberry, red berries
Alfalfa
Magpie juvenile
Magpie Inky Cap / Coprinus picaceus?
Magpie Inky Cap / Coprinus picaceus?
Scaly Pholiota / Pholiota squarrosa
European Skipper
Hard working Dad
Once-married Underwing / Catocala unijuga, left fr…
Puffballs / Calvatia sp.
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, adult male
Wood Ducks
Bear Grass, Waterton Lakes National Park
Donkey guardians of the old schoolhouse
Burrowing owl in the wild
The beauty of Borage
Bald Eagle getting a hosepipe shower
Yellow-bellied Marmot
Burrowing Owl in the wild
Caught in a mesocyclone
Cute little thing
Bald Eagle after a cooling hosepipe shower
A cute, young face
Silky Scorpionweed / Phacelia sericea, Pocaterra C…
Barn with the fallen cupola
Once was wild
Where countryside and civilization meet
Old tractor at Pioneer Acres
Aging Echinacea
Model Mamod Steam Tractor, Pioneer Acres
Memories of colour
She can't see me
A country scene
Pioneer Acres branding iron
Old-fashioned garden decoration
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
Before "winter" arrived
Couple of Coots / Fulica americana
September flowers
Licking salt from the road
A touch of Halloween
Double-crested Cormorants / Phalacrocorax auritus
Welcome colour
Remembering summer colour
A drive through Kananaskis
Chains
Old granaries on the prairie
Rust patterns
Bald Eagle / Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Artichoke flower with different bee species
Once a home
Old dolls, Pioneer Acres Museum, Alberta
Cockshutt tractor, Pioneer Acres
Great Horned Owl juvenile
Cosmos beauty
Same kind of flower as yesterday's
Great Horned Owl on a fence post
Purity
Happy Thanksgiving!
Kangaroo Apple flowers / Solanum aviculare (?)
Old homestead, Alberta
Old Minneapolis Moline tractor, Pioneer Acres
Gentians in a friend's garden
Masterwort / Astrantia major
Case steam tractor, Pioneer Acres
Sunflower and visitors
Pine Coulee Reservoir, Alberta
Eurasian Collared-Dove / Streptopelia decaocto
Mid-morning sun at Pine Coulee Reservoir
Three years later ....
Waterton Lake from the townsite - before the fire
A popular row of old granaries
Old red tractor at the Saskatoon Farm
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Wild European Rabbit
My heart goes out to all those who have been affected by the devastating tragedy in the province to our east, after a collision on Friday (6 April 2018) between a Saskatchewan junior hockey team’s bus and a tractor-trailer in rural Saskatchewan. That afternoon, the Broncos junior hockey team of Humboldt, Saskatchewan, were en route to a playoff game in Nipawin. Twenty-nine people were on board the team bus. Fifteen people were killed, including the coach, assistant coach, bus driver and a team announcer. Others remain in hospital. The tractor-trailer driver survived. There has been such a huge outpouring from people across Canada, and beyond. Such sadness, especially at so many young lives lost.
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There are a number of Wild European Rabbits in Calgary, and this is just one of them. It always feels strange to see what look like pet rabbits wandering loose in people's gardens and around a neighbourhood. This one was seen on 23 July 2014, when I went on a botany walk at the Erlton/Roxboro Natural Area. It was busy eating the grass by this tombstone and then it took a good look at me before continuing to feed. Right next to this area is a Cemetery - funny, I do tend to see rabbits in cemeteries, either these Wild European Rabbits, which come in all sorts of colours, or the White-tailed Jackrabbits.
The town of Canmore, near Banff, in Banff National Park, has had a problem with these Wild European Rabbits. They attract Coyotes and other wildlife into the town. I know they did do something about this problem, but I don't know what the situation in Canmore is like now. I seem to remember reading that a fair number of them were sent to British Columbia to a sanctuary there and the rest were "got rid of".
Here is a link to a Calgary Herald newspaper article from 15th December 2010, about the problem with these Rabbits in the town of Canmore, near Banff: They were, of course, also eating the plants in people's gardens, which some home owners complained about.
"Canmore Mayor Ron Casey is taking aim at the picturesque Alberta town's rascally rabbits. Casey, who said the animals are attracting predators such as cougars, has secured support for a $50,000 budget to deal with feral rabbits."
Read more: www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Canmore+cull+bear+baitin...
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There are a number of Wild European Rabbits in Calgary, and this is just one of them. It always feels strange to see what look like pet rabbits wandering loose in people's gardens and around a neighbourhood. This one was seen on 23 July 2014, when I went on a botany walk at the Erlton/Roxboro Natural Area. It was busy eating the grass by this tombstone and then it took a good look at me before continuing to feed. Right next to this area is a Cemetery - funny, I do tend to see rabbits in cemeteries, either these Wild European Rabbits, which come in all sorts of colours, or the White-tailed Jackrabbits.
The town of Canmore, near Banff, in Banff National Park, has had a problem with these Wild European Rabbits. They attract Coyotes and other wildlife into the town. I know they did do something about this problem, but I don't know what the situation in Canmore is like now. I seem to remember reading that a fair number of them were sent to British Columbia to a sanctuary there and the rest were "got rid of".
Here is a link to a Calgary Herald newspaper article from 15th December 2010, about the problem with these Rabbits in the town of Canmore, near Banff: They were, of course, also eating the plants in people's gardens, which some home owners complained about.
"Canmore Mayor Ron Casey is taking aim at the picturesque Alberta town's rascally rabbits. Casey, who said the animals are attracting predators such as cougars, has secured support for a $50,000 budget to deal with feral rabbits."
Read more: www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Canmore+cull+bear+baitin...
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