Prince of Wales Hotel, Waterton
A favourite view, Waterton Lakes National Park
Sparrow's-egg Orchid / Cypripedium passerinum
Blue Flax / Linum lewisii
American Wigeon
Orange Peel Fungus, Peyto Lake
Bow Lake, Alberta
Clark's Nutcracker / Nucifraga columbiana
Bow Lake
Blue Himalayan Poppy
Swainson's Hawk take-off
Happy Canada Day
The start of a great day
Western Wood Lily
Great Orange Tip / Hebomoia glaucippe
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
Purple Martin, Ellis Bird Farm, Alberta
Purple Martin in its gourd nest box
Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel munching on Yellow…
Cedar Waxwing / Bombycilla cedrorum
American Goldfinch male
Love an old, red barn
Purple Martin male
Hibiscus beauty
Calgary's special guests
Common Raven at Bow Lake
Black Bear seen from the bus
Bow Lake on a cloudy day
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Rondeau PP
Resting on a window
Chameleon
Glorious Canola
Ruddy Duck male
Himalayan monal / Lophophorus impejanus male
Invasive Yellow Clematis
Botanizing Beagles - Ben and Maggie
Baneberry, white berries
Baneberry, red berries
Magpie Inky Cap / Coprinus picaceus?
Magpie Inky Cap / Coprinus picaceus?
Once-married Underwing / Catocala unijuga, left fr…
Puffballs / Calvatia sp.
Himalayan Monal female
Succulent beauty
Cracker sp.
Between the cracks
Common Wood-Nymph / Cercyonis pegala
Hollyhock
Pine Siskin
Spruce Grouse / Falcipennis canadensis
Fungi on a log
Beginning to look like fall
Most likely a Ground Pholiota / Pholiota terrestri…
Let the light shine in
Onnia triquetra (??) and Blue Stain
Fungus (Dryad's Saddle?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Yellow Lady's-slipper / Cypripedium parviflorum
Great Horned Owlet
Great Horned Owlet
Wolf Willow / Elaeagnus commutata
At the base of a tree, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Dutchman's Breeches / Dicentra cucullaria, Pt Pele…
Dutchman's Breeches, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Wilson's Snipe
Beauty
Killdeer nest
The beauty of iridescence
A new addition
Pretty in pink
That's quite the nest, at Pt Pelee, Ontario
Dutchman's Breeches, Pt Pelee
Small, sleepy Bat, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Daffodils growing wild, Pt Pelee
The ubiquitous American Robin, Pt Pelee
The Tip, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Birders at The Tip, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Trillium
Watching the waves at The Tip, Pt Pelee, Ontario,…
Baltimore Oriole, The Tip, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Wild Turkey, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Ferruginous Hawk / Buteo regalis
Once was home
Yellow-headed Blackbird / Xanthocephalus xanthocep…
Purple Honeycreeper male, Trinidad
Masked Cardinal, Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Mountain Bluebird female
Tree Swallow male
Gathering food for his babies
Bananaquit, Trinidad
Pink Ginger, Trinidad
Green Honeycreeper female, Trinidad
Green Honeycreeper male, Trinidad
Ruddy Turnstone, Tobago
Dragonfly, Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Yellow Oriole, Trinidad
White-lined Tanager male, Trinidad
Milk Thistle, I believe
Little angel
Blue-gray Tanager, Trinidad
American Kestrel, Panasonic FZ200
Green Honeycreeper male, Trinidad
American White Pelicans with my old Panasonic FZ20…
On a rainy day in Trinidad
Black-throated Mango, Asa Wright, Trinidad
Standing up well
Kohleria tubiflora, Trinidad
Evening mist in the rainforest
A memory of Waterton from before the fire
Gathering lunch for his babies
Jackrabbit
Brewer's Blackbird / Euphagus cyanocephalus
Purple Honeycreeper, Trinidad
Ring-necked Pheasant male / Phasianus colchicus
A touch of blue
Sunflower detail
The process of decay
White-necked Jacobin male, Trinidad
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Tall grass, Pt Pelee - Phragmites
Is this invasive Phragmites? We saw a lot of this extremely tall grass during our visit to Ontario. So much of it that I began to wonder if it was an invasive species.
Four friends (four of the six friends with whom I went to Trinidad & Tobago in March 2017) and I left Calgary airport on 6 May 2018 and flew to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There, we rented a van and did the long drive to Point Pelee for four whole days of birding. We stayed at the Best Western Hotel in Leamington, which is close to Point Pelee National Park. It fills up very quickly (with birders) and our rooms were booked months ago.
Our four days walking at Point Pelee were interesting and I, for sure, saw various things I had never seen before, including my very first Raccoon : ) Various friends had told me that the Warblers at Pelee were fantastic - so many and numerous species, and so close. Have to disagree with the "closeness" when we were there! I don't have binoculars as cameras are enough for me to carry around, so I know I missed all sorts of birds. Though my Warbler count was lower than my friends' counts, I was happy to at least get a few distant photos of some species. So many of my shots are awful, but I will still post some of them, just for the record of seeing them. Some photos are so bad that I doubt anyone can ID them.
We covered several different trails at Pelee, and also drove to a few places somewhat further afield, such as Hillman Marsh. If you are unfamiliar with this Conservation Area, just wait till you see a photo of the old barn that was there. I couldn't believe my eyes! I was in so much pain that I wasn't sure if I would be able to walk across a grassy area to take a few photos. However, it was so unusual and beautiful, that I reckoned I could try and move forward inch by inch - and crawl (ha, ha) if necessary. Another place we enjoyed was Rondeau National Park. One amazing and totally unexpected sighting just outside Pelee was a very distant male Snowy Owl sitting in a fieldl!!
We walked every single day that we were at Pelee and the areas mentioned above, seeing not just birds, but a frog/toad, snakes that we suspect were mating, several Painted turtles, a few plants (including both white and red Triliums, that I had never seen growing wild before, and a couple of Jack in the Pulpit plants).
The Friends of Point Pelee have food available at lunch time that one can buy. They also have a shuttle bus that one can take from the Visitor Centre all the way to the southern tip of Pelee, which is the most southern part of Canada. They also have birding walks with a guide each day (there is a charge). On 9 May, we spent the morning from 6:00 am to 11:00 am on a birding walk at Pelee with guide, Tom Hince, whom we had contacted while we were still in Calgary.
At the end of our stay at Point Pelee, we had to drive all the way back to Toronto, from where we flew to Quebec airport. From there, we had a four-hour drive to Tadoussac on the coast of the St. Lawrence Seaway. This is such a delightful, small place and in a beautiful setting. One of our friends, Anne B, and her husband have a summer cabin further along the cliff from the few stores and port. She had invited the four of us to go with her from Pelee to spend a week at her beautiful home. What an absolute treat this was! We were able to meet some of her relatives, too, who also have built cabins out there. We were looked after so well, and we were able to see and photograph all sorts of birds and other things. We made several trips to see different places, including the Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area, where we were able to see endless thousands of Snow Geese. Breathtaking!
We also had two boat trips from Tadoussac - one was a whaling trip in a Zodiac, where we saw very, very distant Beluga and Minke Whales. The Belugas looked almost like the white wave crests - but they were Belugas. The other boat trip was to Brandy Pot Island, inhabited by thousands of Razorbills and Common Murres, which were new birds for me, and Double-crested Cormorants that were nesting in tree tops. That long boat trip (in a tiny boat named Juno, piloted by Greg) started off in the rain and dark clouds and it was soooo cold! Thermal underwear, layers of fleece and toque and gloves were needed. This day was arranged through a contact of Anne's and it was so much enjoyed! Of course, we anchored a distance away from the island and sat there and ate our sandwiches and took endless photos. It is forbidden to land on the island at nesting time.
Anne B, I can't thank you enough for organizing this holiday for us all and for inviting us to spend a week at your cabin. You worked so hard and it was so much appreciated by each and every one of us. Thank you for doing all the many hours of driving, too! Janet and Anne, thank you so much for compiling the lists of birds seen each day at various locations, and posted to ebird. These entries will be a huge help while I try and sort out where we were and when, and what species we saw. Miss your cookies and muffins, Janet, that you kindly made for us in Tadoussac, to go along with the wonderful meals that Anne planned and made for us : )
Four friends (four of the six friends with whom I went to Trinidad & Tobago in March 2017) and I left Calgary airport on 6 May 2018 and flew to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There, we rented a van and did the long drive to Point Pelee for four whole days of birding. We stayed at the Best Western Hotel in Leamington, which is close to Point Pelee National Park. It fills up very quickly (with birders) and our rooms were booked months ago.
Our four days walking at Point Pelee were interesting and I, for sure, saw various things I had never seen before, including my very first Raccoon : ) Various friends had told me that the Warblers at Pelee were fantastic - so many and numerous species, and so close. Have to disagree with the "closeness" when we were there! I don't have binoculars as cameras are enough for me to carry around, so I know I missed all sorts of birds. Though my Warbler count was lower than my friends' counts, I was happy to at least get a few distant photos of some species. So many of my shots are awful, but I will still post some of them, just for the record of seeing them. Some photos are so bad that I doubt anyone can ID them.
We covered several different trails at Pelee, and also drove to a few places somewhat further afield, such as Hillman Marsh. If you are unfamiliar with this Conservation Area, just wait till you see a photo of the old barn that was there. I couldn't believe my eyes! I was in so much pain that I wasn't sure if I would be able to walk across a grassy area to take a few photos. However, it was so unusual and beautiful, that I reckoned I could try and move forward inch by inch - and crawl (ha, ha) if necessary. Another place we enjoyed was Rondeau National Park. One amazing and totally unexpected sighting just outside Pelee was a very distant male Snowy Owl sitting in a fieldl!!
We walked every single day that we were at Pelee and the areas mentioned above, seeing not just birds, but a frog/toad, snakes that we suspect were mating, several Painted turtles, a few plants (including both white and red Triliums, that I had never seen growing wild before, and a couple of Jack in the Pulpit plants).
The Friends of Point Pelee have food available at lunch time that one can buy. They also have a shuttle bus that one can take from the Visitor Centre all the way to the southern tip of Pelee, which is the most southern part of Canada. They also have birding walks with a guide each day (there is a charge). On 9 May, we spent the morning from 6:00 am to 11:00 am on a birding walk at Pelee with guide, Tom Hince, whom we had contacted while we were still in Calgary.
At the end of our stay at Point Pelee, we had to drive all the way back to Toronto, from where we flew to Quebec airport. From there, we had a four-hour drive to Tadoussac on the coast of the St. Lawrence Seaway. This is such a delightful, small place and in a beautiful setting. One of our friends, Anne B, and her husband have a summer cabin further along the cliff from the few stores and port. She had invited the four of us to go with her from Pelee to spend a week at her beautiful home. What an absolute treat this was! We were able to meet some of her relatives, too, who also have built cabins out there. We were looked after so well, and we were able to see and photograph all sorts of birds and other things. We made several trips to see different places, including the Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area, where we were able to see endless thousands of Snow Geese. Breathtaking!
We also had two boat trips from Tadoussac - one was a whaling trip in a Zodiac, where we saw very, very distant Beluga and Minke Whales. The Belugas looked almost like the white wave crests - but they were Belugas. The other boat trip was to Brandy Pot Island, inhabited by thousands of Razorbills and Common Murres, which were new birds for me, and Double-crested Cormorants that were nesting in tree tops. That long boat trip (in a tiny boat named Juno, piloted by Greg) started off in the rain and dark clouds and it was soooo cold! Thermal underwear, layers of fleece and toque and gloves were needed. This day was arranged through a contact of Anne's and it was so much enjoyed! Of course, we anchored a distance away from the island and sat there and ate our sandwiches and took endless photos. It is forbidden to land on the island at nesting time.
Anne B, I can't thank you enough for organizing this holiday for us all and for inviting us to spend a week at your cabin. You worked so hard and it was so much appreciated by each and every one of us. Thank you for doing all the many hours of driving, too! Janet and Anne, thank you so much for compiling the lists of birds seen each day at various locations, and posted to ebird. These entries will be a huge help while I try and sort out where we were and when, and what species we saw. Miss your cookies and muffins, Janet, that you kindly made for us in Tadoussac, to go along with the wonderful meals that Anne planned and made for us : )
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