Jackie's squirrel - Red or Eastern Gray?
Pine Siskin
Pine Siskin taking a bath
Pine Siskin
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Globe Thistle / Echinops ritro
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Lest We Forget
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Day 10, White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac
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Garden decoration
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow
Day 10, White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 10, White-throated Sparrow
Day 10, White-crowned Sparrow
Dreaming of spring
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Baltimore Oriole / Icterus galbula
Western Tanager / Piranga ludoviciana
Baltimore Oriole / Icterus galbula
Western Tanager / Piranga ludoviciana
Rose-breasted Grosbeak male / Pheucticus ludovicia…
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Geranium in Keith Logan's garden
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Gaillardia
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Conservatory, Calgary Zoo
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The sunflower droop
Downy Woodpecker and American Goldfinch
American Goldfinch juvenile / Spinus tristis
Hollyhock
Peony seedpods
Blue Himalayan Poppy
White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac, Quebec
Beauty
A new addition
Pretty in pink
Chipping Sparrow, Tadoussac, Quebec
White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac, Quebec
Milk Thistle, I believe
Sunflower detail
Shoo-fly / Nicandra physalodes
Tropical pink, Trinidad
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Our last morning on island of Trinidad
Lacy curtain of ice
Old wagon in winter
The end of an Artichoke
A welcome splash of colour
The final stage of an Artichoke
Snow-capped
Common Redpoll
Aging Echinacea
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Common Redpoll / Acanthis flammea
Before "winter" arrived
Common Redpolls / Acanthis flammea
Lest we forget
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"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
End of the season
Welcome colour
Remembering summer colour
Artichoke flower with different bee species
Cosmos beauty
Kangaroo Apple flowers / Solanum aviculare (?)
Masterwort / Astrantia major
Last days before the snow
Sunflower and visitors
Colours
Bluebird of happiness
Looper Moth sp.
Lasting beauty
Busy little bee
Owl and spider webs
The Long house, Pioneer Acres, Alberta, Canada
Bees, bees and more bees
About to open
Hybrid Mourning Dove-Eurasian Collared Dove
Bee on Sunflower
American Goldfinch eating Sunflower seeds
Checkered Skipper sp.?
A filtered Poppy
Hosta flowers
When the last petal has fallen
Red Birds in a Tree plant
Geranium sp.
Splash of colour
A pot full of colour
Day Lily
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Pine Siskin
The weather alert for poor air quality continues, though this morning is low risk, unlike the extremely poor air quality the last few days (10 and 10+). This changes all the time. Our temperature is only 7C at 10:00 am! Looks like we could have rain tonight, which would be wonderful if it happens. Hoping rain is in the forecast for British Columbia and down in the States, too, to help with fighting the endless, devastating wildfires! I don't plan on leaving the house today, though, so I thought I would add a few more photos.
Three days ago, on 16 August 2018, I was invited to go with a friend to visit a mutual friend down in Turner Valley and see the birds that come to her beautiful back garden. Only small, this area has been so thoughtfully and beautifully laid out, encouraging all sorts of birds and other wildlife to visit. She is so fortunate that a wildlife corridor is just beyond her deck and garden. Totally unexpectedly, Jackie made us a delicious cheese bun sandwich for lunch that included tomatoes she has grown herself on her deck, along with cold, refreshing lemonade. Thank you so much, Jackie, for your kindness, as always!
"Flocks of tiny Pine Siskins may monopolize your thistle feeder one winter and be absent the next. This nomadic finch ranges widely and erratically across the continent each winter in response to seed crops. Better suited to clinging to branch tips than to hopping along the ground, these brown-streaked acrobats flash yellow wing markings as they flutter while feeding or as they explode into flight. Flocks are gregarious, and you may hear their insistent wheezy twitters before you see them." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pine_Siskin/overview
Pam, I really appreciate your invite to go with you, and thanks so much for driving a few new back roads and a stop at Frank Lake. I don't know where all the birds were, but there were so few at the Lake and most of those were far, far out. It was a real treat, though, to start off our morning with a beautiful Swainson's Hawk that was perched on a metal fence railing, and to end our day with several (was it three?) American White Pelicans in flight and then landing on a pond in the city. We were lucky that one of them was still on the water by the time we had parked and walked to the pond.
Despite the thick blanket of smoke everywhere and the dreadful air quality, the faint landscape that surrounded us was eerily beautiful. It will feel almost strange to see our beautiful foothills and mountains once again, when the wildfire smoke finally comes to an end.
Three days ago, on 16 August 2018, I was invited to go with a friend to visit a mutual friend down in Turner Valley and see the birds that come to her beautiful back garden. Only small, this area has been so thoughtfully and beautifully laid out, encouraging all sorts of birds and other wildlife to visit. She is so fortunate that a wildlife corridor is just beyond her deck and garden. Totally unexpectedly, Jackie made us a delicious cheese bun sandwich for lunch that included tomatoes she has grown herself on her deck, along with cold, refreshing lemonade. Thank you so much, Jackie, for your kindness, as always!
"Flocks of tiny Pine Siskins may monopolize your thistle feeder one winter and be absent the next. This nomadic finch ranges widely and erratically across the continent each winter in response to seed crops. Better suited to clinging to branch tips than to hopping along the ground, these brown-streaked acrobats flash yellow wing markings as they flutter while feeding or as they explode into flight. Flocks are gregarious, and you may hear their insistent wheezy twitters before you see them." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Pine_Siskin/overview
Pam, I really appreciate your invite to go with you, and thanks so much for driving a few new back roads and a stop at Frank Lake. I don't know where all the birds were, but there were so few at the Lake and most of those were far, far out. It was a real treat, though, to start off our morning with a beautiful Swainson's Hawk that was perched on a metal fence railing, and to end our day with several (was it three?) American White Pelicans in flight and then landing on a pond in the city. We were lucky that one of them was still on the water by the time we had parked and walked to the pond.
Despite the thick blanket of smoke everywhere and the dreadful air quality, the faint landscape that surrounded us was eerily beautiful. It will feel almost strange to see our beautiful foothills and mountains once again, when the wildfire smoke finally comes to an end.
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