Day 2, a more typical Trillium, Rondeau PP
Day 2, White Trillium, Rondeau PP
When fall comes after 'winter'
Pumpkin season, kid-style
Weathered door
The picture of contentment
Unknown duck species (domestic)
Friendly horse
Old farm wagon wheel
Mama Turkey (domestic)
Powderpuff flower
Day 3, Large-flowered Bellwort / Uvularia grandifl…
Day 3, Daffodil (or Narcissus?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Day 3, Dryad's Saddle (?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Day 3, Daffodil (Narcissus?) growing wild, Pt Pele…
Lest We Forget
A much-needed change of colour
Fall colours
Day 4, Wild Turkey, Pt Pelee
Winter in the park
Day 4, Baltimore Oriole, The Tip, Point Pelee
Day 10, American Goldfinch male, Tadoussac
Day 10, American Goldfinch female, Tadoussac
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 6, Tadoussac Hotel, Quebec
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 6, and so ends another day, Tadoussac
Delicate hoarfrost
Christmas Llama - oops, Bird! - Count
Up close with a Llama
Frosted chin whiskers
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Eastern Kingbird, SW of Calgary
Day 12, Snow Geese, Cap Tourmente National Wildlif…
Day 12, migrating Snow Geese, Cap Tourmente
Dreaming of spring
Eastern Kingbird, from my archives
Great Horned Owl / Bubo virginianus
Yellow-bellied Marmot - from the archives
Great Gray Owl - from the archives
Day 6, Green Jay / Cyanocorax yncas, southern Texa…
Day 7, Hong Kong orchid tree / Bauhinia (blakeana?…
Day 1, Thistle sp., southern Texas
Day 1, Thistle sp., southern Texas
Day 1, Thistle sp., southern Texas
Day 1, Thistle / Cirsium horridulum, southern Texa…
Day 1, Thistle / pink form of Cirsium horridulum,…
THE TICK THAT BIT ME in South Texas! LONE STAR TI…
Day 3, leg band & tracking device, Whooping Crane…
Day 3, Whooping Crane colt flexing its wings, Aran…
Day 4, Aloe vera, Bishop City Park, South Texas
Day 5, White Prickly Poppy / Argemone albiflora
Day 5, wildflowers, King Ranch, Norias Division
Day 6, Plain Chachalaca / Ortalis vetula
Day 6, Great-tailed Grackle male / Quiscalus mexic…
Day 7, Hong Kong Orchid tree, Estero Llano Grande…
Common Grackle after a bath
Mountain Bluebird male
Mountain Bluebird female
Mountain Bluebird male
Wilson's Snipe / Gallinago delicata
Eastern Kingbird / Tyrannus tyrannus
Rare Thirteen-lined Groundsquirrel / Ictidomys tri…
Trillium, Day 2, Rondeau PP, Ontario
Much-needed colour!
Harlequin Duck / Histrionicus histrionicus
After our first major snowstorm
Snow Leopard / Panthera uncia
Happy Thanksgivng, everyone!
Artichoke in bloom
Two-month-old American Kestrel
Black-necked Stilt (juvenile?)
Sea Holly
Clouded Sulphur on Lettuce sp.?
American Avocets
Butterfly on Joe Pye Weed
Globe Thistle / Echinops ritro
Spooked by a barking dog
Living on the edge
Black-necked Stilt (juvenile?) / Himantopus mexica…
I LOVE owls - in case you didn't know : )
Beauty of a weed
Let the light shine in
Most likely a Ground Pholiota / Pholiota terrestri…
Beautiful guttation droplets on a polypore
Rough cocklebur / Xanthium strumarium
Cute goat at Eagle Lake
Spruce Grouse / Falcipennis canadensis
Hollyhock
Peony seedpods
Between the cracks
Cracker sp.
Succulent beauty
Puffballs / Calvatia sp.
Once-married Underwing / Catocala unijuga, left fr…
European Skipper
Scaly Pholiota / Pholiota squarrosa
Magpie Inky Cap / Coprinus picaceus?
Alfalfa
Baneberry, red berries
Baneberry, white berries
Nodding Thistle / Musk Thistle / Carduus nutans
Invasive Yellow Clematis
Himalayan monal / Lophophorus impejanus male
Resting on a window
Water Lily
Calgary's special guests
Hibiscus beauty
Purple Avens / Water Avens / Geum rivale
Wildflowers at Peyto Lake
Yellow Penstemon with wildflower bokeh
Always a treat to see
Great Orange Tip / Hebomoia glaucippe
Western Wood Lily
Blue Himalayan Poppy
Orange Peel Fungus, Peyto Lake
Blue Flax / Linum lewisii
Eastern Kingbird
Fungus (Dryad's Saddle?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Yellow Lady's-slipper / Cypripedium parviflorum
Wolf Willow / Elaeagnus commutata
American Goldfinch male, Tadoussac, Quebec
Trillium with a visitor, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Dutchman's Breeches / Dicentra cucullaria, Pt Pele…
Dryad's Saddle Fungus (?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
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Day 2, yes, another Trillium, Rondeau PP
Just before midnight, I have added 10 more photos from our trip to Pt. Pelee, Ontario, and Tadoussac, Quebec, in May 2018. I am trying to add any images in roughly the order in which they were taken. These photos were all taken at Rondeau Provincial Park on 8 May 2018. Formed in 1894, this is Ontario’s second oldest Provincial Park. A delightful place! We were there over lunchtime and an absolutey delicious curry soup was available. As for marking my photos on my map, I have no idea exactly where we saw what, so I will place all the Rondeau photos in one general location, mainly to show where Rondeau Provincial Park actually is. Also, a few of the photos may have been taken while driving to and from the park, back to our hotel in Leamington.
"Rondeau protects one of the last remaining stands of old growth Carolinian Forest in Ontario. Apart from protecting 3254 ha of Oak Savannah, Carolinian Forest, Dune habitat, and Coastal wetland, Rondeau is one of North America’s best examples of a Cuspate Sandspit. Formed by the erosion and deposition of sand and gravel, the Rondeau peninsula extends into Lake Erie, and forms a protected bay which is important habitat for a variety of species at risk as well as providing many recreational opportunities. The peninsula, combined with the open bay, attracts migrating birds throughout the spring and fall, resulting in some of the best bird watching in Ontario." From Rondeau Park website.
rondeauprovincialpark.ca/about-rondeau-park/
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 ahead of time.
Our four days walking at Point Pelee were very 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. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the magnificent barn at this Conservation Area! 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 - or 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 have birding walks with a guide each day (there is a charge), but we walked the trails on our own, except for one morning. 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 the Brandy Pot Islands, inhabited by thousands of Razorbills and Common Murres, which were new birds for us, and Double-crested Cormorants that were nesting in tree tops. That long boat trip (in a tiny boat named Juno) 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, 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 : )
"Rondeau protects one of the last remaining stands of old growth Carolinian Forest in Ontario. Apart from protecting 3254 ha of Oak Savannah, Carolinian Forest, Dune habitat, and Coastal wetland, Rondeau is one of North America’s best examples of a Cuspate Sandspit. Formed by the erosion and deposition of sand and gravel, the Rondeau peninsula extends into Lake Erie, and forms a protected bay which is important habitat for a variety of species at risk as well as providing many recreational opportunities. The peninsula, combined with the open bay, attracts migrating birds throughout the spring and fall, resulting in some of the best bird watching in Ontario." From Rondeau Park website.
rondeauprovincialpark.ca/about-rondeau-park/
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 ahead of time.
Our four days walking at Point Pelee were very 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. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the magnificent barn at this Conservation Area! 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 - or 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 have birding walks with a guide each day (there is a charge), but we walked the trails on our own, except for one morning. 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 the Brandy Pot Islands, inhabited by thousands of Razorbills and Common Murres, which were new birds for us, and Double-crested Cormorants that were nesting in tree tops. That long boat trip (in a tiny boat named Juno) 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, 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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