A beautiful catch
Magpie juvenile
Hard working Dad
Creeping Thistle / Cirsium arvense, pure white, no…
Impressive creature
Enjoying a good meal
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Common Nighthawk / Chordeiles minor - threatened s…
Mourning Dove - love the blue eye-ring
Me and my dad
Harvest time
Yesterday's Chinook Arch
Common Nighthawk / Chordeiles minor - threatened s…
Swainson's Hawk / Buteo swainsoni
Another red barn
Photo-bombed by Blackbirds
Old and weathered
Mushrooms galore
Greater White-fronted Geese / Larus glaucoides
The storm rolls in
On its last legs
Harvest time
A favourite barn
Filtered barn
Day 2, a wetland after Rondeau PP
Fine old truck
Tundra Swans in flight
Looking into the sun
Two of my favourite things
Old farm wagon
Clouds over Chain Lakes
Into the sun at Pine Coulee Reservoir
Rural decay down south
On the way to Chain Lakes
A view from Chain Lakes
Common Nighthawk / Chordeiles minor
Day 3, on the way to Hillman Marsh, Ontario
Beauty of winter (well, late fall)
Llama in winter
Llama
Overload of Llamas : )
Disappearing into nothingness
Hoar frost tree and vanishing fields
Horse and hoar frost
Old red barn on a foggy day
A 'new' old homestead
Eastern Kingbird, SW of Calgary
Short-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Peace in the countryside
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Eastern Kingbird, from my archives
Short-eared Owl - from January
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Wide open spaces
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Farm with sheep and a donkey
Great Gray Owl - from the archives
Glorious Canola
Tiny spider with a death wish
Love an old, red barn
The start of a great day
Eastern Kingbird
Bluebird bling
So many old barns between Toronto and Pt Pelee
Old barn on drive to Pt Pelee from Toronto, Ontari…
Wilson's Snipe
The beauty of iridescence
Once was home
Little country church, Carmangay
Remembering winter
Mountain Bluebird female
Gathering food for his babies
Goodbye, winter - so glad you are gone!
They're back : )
They call this spring?
A rural "winter" scene
Old barn in spring snow
Standing up well
Western Meadowlark
The challenges of being a birder
Gathering lunch for his babies
Brewer's Blackbird / Euphagus cyanocephalus
A touch of blue
A favourite old barn
When the world turns white
Donkey guardians of the old schoolhouse
European Starling / Sturnus vulgaris
Burrowing owl in the wild
Winter beauty
Red Fox (just for the record)
On its way down
Old country church
Prairie life in winter
Burrowing Owl in the wild
Rolling hills from the Whaleback
A view from yesterday
Plain, but welcome
Winter's beauty
Rusty and abandoned
Old barns in the foothills
Deer on the horizon
A white world
Country scene in winter
Whites and blues of winter
Red barn in winter
Before winter arrived
Barn of an unusual shape
Old and the new
An old, abandoned Chevrolet
Miniature horses in a winter playground
Old barns in winter
You never know where you'll see a Snowy Owl
Two male Snowy Owls in the same field
Snowy Owl number 5
Rural decay
A glimpse through the trees
On a Christmas Bird Count, -23C
Red barn in winter
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Black-crowned Night-heron
Yesterday, 20 July 2018, I no choice but to get out for a while. My place is unbearable on so many summer days and, at the moment, I dare not open any windows in case my house mouse (mice?) finds another tiny space to get in. All this week, I have been getting to sleep around 4:00 or 4:30 am, because of hearing the moving, "cracking" sounds inside my bedroom walls. The one night, from 2:00 am till around 3:30 am, I just sat on my bed, watching, as it sounded like there was something actually in my room. Sure enough, after half an hour, the mouse appeared around the hinged edge of my open bedroom door and darted out across the landing, heading for my computer room. Lack of sleep, which is the absolute last thing I need, is really getting to me and is stopping me from getting out on any day drives. The stress of having this most unwelcome rodent(s) in my house is so draining. So, yesterday, mid-afternoon, I was desperate to get away from it all and do just a short drive SE of the city.
I think this was only the second time I had driven down there this year - it only takes maybe half an hour. There is so much endless construction going on in the south part of the city (well, in all parts of the city) and I discovered yesterday that roads had been changed. Not a good feeling! Huge overpasses are being built in every direction, mainly as part of the Ring Road around the city.
When I reached the area I wanted to explore, I pulled over to check for any birds. Practically nothing, until I noticed a whitish bird perched on a very distant fence post. "Gull" was what first came to mind, but when I zoomed in on my camera, I was delighted to find that it was a Black-crowned Night-heron. I have added a previously posted close-up of one of the beautiful birds, in a comment box below.
Later on, I was feeling even more grateful to have seen this bird, as there was practically nothing else to be seen. It had turned out to be a very hot, hazy day, with very strong winds. At the blind, there was one Ruddy Duck swimming by and immediately disappearing. One American Coot was in the reeds with a baby. Several distant Yellow-headed Blackbirds, a Tern, a distant Western Grebe being followed by a growing youngster (who could barely keep up with her thanks to the very choppy, wind-blown water), and a sprinkling of shorebirds were the only other things I saw.
The glorious colour of Canola fields was what I was really hoping for on this trip. A photogenic old barn, sitting in a field of gold, was also what I was hoping to find. I did manage to find a very distant old shed and so was able to get a shot or two. Though the smell of Canola really is not pleasant, I find that just driving through a yellow landscape is wonderful, even on a very windy day.
Then it was time to return home. Back to reality, back to heat and stuffy air - and the dreaded house mouse!
I think this was only the second time I had driven down there this year - it only takes maybe half an hour. There is so much endless construction going on in the south part of the city (well, in all parts of the city) and I discovered yesterday that roads had been changed. Not a good feeling! Huge overpasses are being built in every direction, mainly as part of the Ring Road around the city.
When I reached the area I wanted to explore, I pulled over to check for any birds. Practically nothing, until I noticed a whitish bird perched on a very distant fence post. "Gull" was what first came to mind, but when I zoomed in on my camera, I was delighted to find that it was a Black-crowned Night-heron. I have added a previously posted close-up of one of the beautiful birds, in a comment box below.
Later on, I was feeling even more grateful to have seen this bird, as there was practically nothing else to be seen. It had turned out to be a very hot, hazy day, with very strong winds. At the blind, there was one Ruddy Duck swimming by and immediately disappearing. One American Coot was in the reeds with a baby. Several distant Yellow-headed Blackbirds, a Tern, a distant Western Grebe being followed by a growing youngster (who could barely keep up with her thanks to the very choppy, wind-blown water), and a sprinkling of shorebirds were the only other things I saw.
The glorious colour of Canola fields was what I was really hoping for on this trip. A photogenic old barn, sitting in a field of gold, was also what I was hoping to find. I did manage to find a very distant old shed and so was able to get a shot or two. Though the smell of Canola really is not pleasant, I find that just driving through a yellow landscape is wonderful, even on a very windy day.
Then it was time to return home. Back to reality, back to heat and stuffy air - and the dreaded house mouse!
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