Part of a gathering of Ravens
Artichoke in bloom
Snow Geese & Greater White-fronted Geese
Old barn in early fall
American Pika - such a cutie
Our majestic mountains
Pink Showy Cinquefoil
Old and weathered
Fun to spend time with
Mushrooms galore
Fall colours near the Highwood River
Happy Gobble Gobble weekend!
Perfectly purple
Greater White-fronted Geese / Larus glaucoides
Happy Thanksgivng, everyone!
Snow Leopard / Panthera uncia
Happy Thanksgiving!
Red Panda / Ailurus fulgens
After our first major snowstorm
Heading into the mountains
Harlequin Duck / Histrionicus histrionicus
Early fall, looking (and feeling) like winter
Yellowlegs - Lesser or Greater?
Much-needed colour!
Trillium, Day 2, Rondeau PP, Ontario
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Day 2, Rondeau PP, Ontario
White-breasted Nuthatch, Day 2, Rondeau PP, Ontari…
Day 2, Common Five-lined Skink barn, Rondeau PP
Day 2, Five-lined Skink barn, Rondeau PP
Day 2, reflected 'Geese', Rondeau PP
Day 2, mating snakes, Rondeau PP
Day 2, mating snakes, Rondeau PP
Day 2, Tree Swallow, Rondeau PP
The storm rolls in
On its last legs
Harvest time
A favourite barn
Day 2, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Rondeau Provincial…
Day 2, Anglewing butterfly sp., Rondeau PP
Day 2, American Foldfinch, Rondeau PP
Filtered barn
Day 2, yes, another Trillium, Rondeau PP
Day 2, a more typical Trillium, Rondeau PP
Day 2, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Rondeau PP Visitor'…
Day 2, White Trillium, Rondeau PP
Day 2, White-breasted Nuthatch, Rondeau PP Visitor…
When fall comes after 'winter'
Day 2, Chipping Sparrow, Rondeau PP
Wood Duck male
Great Horned Owl
Day 2, Rose-breasted Grosbeak male / Pheucticus lu…
Day 2, Rose-breasted Grosbeak male, Rondeau PP
Day 2, a rare sighting for Ontario - a common bird…
Day 2, a wetland after Rondeau PP
Day 2, an old barn near Rondeau PP, Ontario
Day 2, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Rondeau PP
Forgetmenot Pond, Elbow Falls Trail
Pumpkin season, kid-style
Fine old truck
Domestic duck, unidentified
Beauty in old age
Tundra Swans in flight
Clouds over Chain Lakes
Two-month-old American Kestrel
Rufous Hummingbird male / Selasphorus rufus
Black-necked Stilt (juvenile?)
Sea Holly
Maple sp.?
Turkistan Burning Bush / Euonymus nanus turkmenist…
Golden-mantled Ground Squirrel
Swainson's Hawk watching for its next snack
Another red barn
Pink (African?) Daisies
Clouded Sulphur on Lettuce sp.?
Swainson's Hawk / Buteo swainsoni
American Avocets
Butterfly on Joe Pye Weed
On a cold summer day with mist and drizzle
Common Nighthawk / Chordeiles minor - threatened s…
Sleepy Barn Owl
Wood Duck male / Aix sponsa
How dare you take a photo of me looking like this?
Globe Thistle / Echinops ritro
The painted cow - "Some enchanted evening"
Wood Duck male / Aix sponsa
Spooked by a barking dog
Living on the edge
Yesterday's Chinook Arch
A spider's creation
American Avocets / Recurvirostra americana
Harvest time
Black-necked Stilt (juvenile?) / Himantopus mexica…
I LOVE owls - in case you didn't know : )
Me and my dad
Mourning Dove - love the blue eye-ring
Common Nighthawk / Chordeiles minor - threatened s…
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
Mountain Ash berries
Onnia triquetra (??) and Blue Stain
Beauty of a weed
Osprey number 2 / Pandion haliaetus
Broad-winged Hawk
Let the light shine in
Most likely a Ground Pholiota / Pholiota terrestri…
Thirsty Bighorn Sheep
Beginning to look like fall
Beautiful guttation droplets on a polypore
Fungi on a log
Columbian Ground Squirrel / Urocitellus columbianu…
Rough cocklebur / Xanthium strumarium
Cute goat at Eagle Lake
Smokey Eagle Lake
Many-plume moth / Alucita sp.
A classic light/intermediate-morph adult Swainson'…
Ferruginous Hawks - now safely grown and gone
Ferruginous Hawk
Enjoying a good meal
Impressive creature
Vesper Sparrow
Spruce Grouse / Falcipennis canadensis
Pine Siskin
Pine Siskin taking a bath
Pine Siskin
Jackie's squirrel - Red or Eastern Gray?
Pine Siskin
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I'VE BEEN SCAMMED and HACKED!!! My son informed me that the whole computer VIRUS thing I mentioned the other day was a SCAM! My Bank said the first step is to phone the company and cancel the 5-year Protection I paid for and to ask for a refund, which I have just done. Doubt that will happen. Also have to now take my computer in to be cleaned of all the malware, etc. they have installed on my hard drive. What a PAIN! I'm always very careful of scams and hoaxes, but I sure fell for this one.
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Our weather forecast for this morning gives a temperature of -2C (windchill -4C). We are under a Freezing Drizzle Advisory, too. Whatever happened to sunshine and warmth? Recently, we have been having rainy, dreary (and the day before yesterday, very foggy!) weather. A decision needed to be made - to go or not go on a birding day trip east of the city. Usually, people don't have to register for most outings, but the trip on 20 September 2018 was different, thanks to a change in how outings will be run in the future. I had registered, which helped push me out of the door on a day with a forecast for rain all day. So glad I did go, though, as once the dense fog eventually pretty much lifted half way through the day, the sun came out and it was beautiful.
Our route took us to places such as (very foggy) Weed Lake and, much further east, Marsland Basin. I love our trips in this direction from the city, even more so because I very rarely do the drive myself. At the location where I took the photo above, there were so many Blackbirds - Yellow-headed, Red-winged, Brewer's, plus a few Grackles mixed in with them.
As for birds, 56 species were spotted, most at extremely far distances. As usually happens, I only saw some of them, but was happy with the ones I did see. Not much chance to take photos of birds, but as usual, my camera lens turned to everything else around me - scenery, wildflowers, insects, old barns and sheds, and a few beautifully delicate spider webs covered in dew, rain or fog drops. I loved finding these! I wish I knew what kind of spiders create the much more random webs - different from the full-circle ones I normally come across. I can only imagine what these webs might have looked like in sunshine, instead of heavy fog. Still, I'm happy that a few photos are fit to post, to remind me of nature's beauty this day.
After our first stop, we decided to have an early coffee break, in hopes that the fog would improve. Eventually, it did, slightly. Fog is definitely not what one wants on a birding trip! I think we had seven stops in total, including one at Marsland Basin, our most distant destination. Such a great place to visit and enjoy. While everyone else was peering through their binoculars at the distant wetland, I was wandering through the trees and grounds surrounding Lynn and Sue's home, catching a Sunflower shot here and a donkey shot there, and so on. One of my favourite places. Sorry we missed you, Lynn!
Many thanks as always, Andrew, for yet another very enjoyable trip. Thanks, too, for everyone combining to create the list of total species. So many great pairs of eyes. It felt so good to be away from my computer for hours, too, especially after getting a Virus the previous day and coming very close to losing everything on my computer! Then, what happens this morning, after my computer was fixed remotely by a technician? I go to Facebook to wish my grandson a Happy Birthday, and I get the Blue Screen of Death!!! Wish I could say I love computers - but definitely not the last three days!
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Our weather forecast for this morning gives a temperature of -2C (windchill -4C). We are under a Freezing Drizzle Advisory, too. Whatever happened to sunshine and warmth? Recently, we have been having rainy, dreary (and the day before yesterday, very foggy!) weather. A decision needed to be made - to go or not go on a birding day trip east of the city. Usually, people don't have to register for most outings, but the trip on 20 September 2018 was different, thanks to a change in how outings will be run in the future. I had registered, which helped push me out of the door on a day with a forecast for rain all day. So glad I did go, though, as once the dense fog eventually pretty much lifted half way through the day, the sun came out and it was beautiful.
Our route took us to places such as (very foggy) Weed Lake and, much further east, Marsland Basin. I love our trips in this direction from the city, even more so because I very rarely do the drive myself. At the location where I took the photo above, there were so many Blackbirds - Yellow-headed, Red-winged, Brewer's, plus a few Grackles mixed in with them.
As for birds, 56 species were spotted, most at extremely far distances. As usually happens, I only saw some of them, but was happy with the ones I did see. Not much chance to take photos of birds, but as usual, my camera lens turned to everything else around me - scenery, wildflowers, insects, old barns and sheds, and a few beautifully delicate spider webs covered in dew, rain or fog drops. I loved finding these! I wish I knew what kind of spiders create the much more random webs - different from the full-circle ones I normally come across. I can only imagine what these webs might have looked like in sunshine, instead of heavy fog. Still, I'm happy that a few photos are fit to post, to remind me of nature's beauty this day.
After our first stop, we decided to have an early coffee break, in hopes that the fog would improve. Eventually, it did, slightly. Fog is definitely not what one wants on a birding trip! I think we had seven stops in total, including one at Marsland Basin, our most distant destination. Such a great place to visit and enjoy. While everyone else was peering through their binoculars at the distant wetland, I was wandering through the trees and grounds surrounding Lynn and Sue's home, catching a Sunflower shot here and a donkey shot there, and so on. One of my favourite places. Sorry we missed you, Lynn!
Many thanks as always, Andrew, for yet another very enjoyable trip. Thanks, too, for everyone combining to create the list of total species. So many great pairs of eyes. It felt so good to be away from my computer for hours, too, especially after getting a Virus the previous day and coming very close to losing everything on my computer! Then, what happens this morning, after my computer was fixed remotely by a technician? I go to Facebook to wish my grandson a Happy Birthday, and I get the Blue Screen of Death!!! Wish I could say I love computers - but definitely not the last three days!
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