Horse and hoar frost
Old red barn on a foggy day
A 'new' old homestead
Male Snowy Owl
The beauty of hoar frost
Male Snowy Owl
Short-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Prairie Falcon - Status: SENSITIVE, Species of Spe…
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Snowy Owl 1st year male, Snowy Owl Prowl 2019
Snowy Owl male, Snowy Owl Prowl 2019
Snowy Owl 1st year male, Snowy Owl Prowl 2019
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Peace in the countryside
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Long-eared Owl
Helmeted Guineafowl
Short-eared Owl - from January
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Farmyard friends
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Wide open spaces
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
A face only a mother could love
Northern Pygmy-owl - from the archives
Northern Pygmy-owl - from the archives
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl out on a tree limb
Red barn through the fog
Frosted chin whiskers
Disappearing into nothingness
A quick drive-by shot
Llama beauty
Boldly red
The white Llama
Overload of Llamas : )
Llama
Up close with a Llama
Llama in winter
Mountain Chickadee feeding on suet
Blue Jay / Cyanocitta cristata
Christmas Llama - oops, Bird! - Count
A favourite old barn
Have you ever seen a furry pig?
Evening Grosbeak male, Priddis Count
Beauty of winter (well, late fall)
Remembering winter
Goodbye, winter - so glad you are gone!
When the world turns white
Sleepy Great Horned Owl
One of two Coyotes
Great Gray Owl
Common Redpoll
Pileated Woodpecker
On the way to Canmore - seven Swans a-swimming :)
Great Gray Owl
Winter beauty
Red Fox (just for the record)
Twice the beauty
Bighorn Sheep mom and youngster
Pileated Woodpecker seen in Canmore
Far, far away
Great Gray Owl on the hunt
Great Gray Owl, highly zoomed
Boreal Chickadee
Great Gray Owl hunting
Prairie life in winter
Great Gray Owl, watching and listening
Great Gray Owl #2
Great Gray Owl #1
A beautiful day in Weaselhead
Common Redpoll female
With more big storms to come
Coyote crossing the frozen Elbow River
A view from yesterday
Plain, but welcome
Winter's beauty
Who am I?
Rusty and abandoned
What is this?
Old barns in the foothills
Sharp-tailed Grouse
The ever-present Black-capped Chickadee
Deer on the horizon
A lucky Moose day
Sharp-tailed Grouse
A white world
Country scene in winter
Better late than never
Whites and blues of winter
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Hoar frost tree and vanishing fields
The trees at the very edge of the roads were quite visible, but practically everything else disappeared in a dense fog that caught me by surprise today, 5 January 2019. I had hoped to finally drive east of the city yesterday, after already waiting a couple of months. Then I saw in the weather forecast that it was going to be a very windy day, so my plans changed. When I checked the forecast around midnight last night, we were supposedly going to have sun with some cloud this morning, clearing to a nice sunny afternoon. Yeah, right!! The thick fog had developed way before I left the eastern edge of the city and, though I was so tempted to turn around and head for home, I kept going, hoping that the fog would clear further east. Just the opposite! Most of the drive was in very poor visibility, barely able to see the road I was on and not seeing cars in the distance. Once my eyes looked further than the fences along the road edges, I could barely see anything at all, just dense fog. A far cry from an ideal day for looking for Snowy Owls! Everything was a pale grey or white and I would never have been able to see a distant owl and would barely see an owl perched high up on a power pole. After roughly almost five hours of dangerous driving conditions and 235 km travelled, I just had to give up and head for home.
I did manage to find a few odds and ends to photograph, but nothing too inspiring. Post-processing turned white photos into images that had some colour and detail - not at all how things looked in reality.
I did manage to find a few odds and ends to photograph, but nothing too inspiring. Post-processing turned white photos into images that had some colour and detail - not at all how things looked in reality.
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