Day 8, Snow Goose / Anser caerulescens
Day 8, old blue house
Male Snowy Owl
The beauty of hoar frost
Male Snowy Owl
Day 9, Hoof Fungus, Tadoussac
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow
Fox Sparrow / Passerella iliaca, Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow
Day 10, White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 10, American Goldfinch male
Day 10, American Goldfinch female
Day 10, White-throated Sparrow
Short-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Prairie Falcon - Status: SENSITIVE, Species of Spe…
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Day 10, young Fiddlehead ferns by dry dock, Tadous…
Day 10, White-crowned Sparrow
Nodding (Musk) Thistle / Carduus nutans
Day 11 FINISHED, catkins, Tadoussac
Day 12, SW of Port-au-Persil, Quebec
Day 12, male Firefly, probably in genus Photinus,…
Day 12, Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area, Queb…
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
Harlequin Duck / Histrionicus histrionicus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Dreaming of spring
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Eastern Kingbird, from my archives
Long-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl - from January
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Wide open spaces
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Barred Owl in FCPP - from the archives
Northern Hawk Owl juevnile - from the archives
Farm with sheep and a donkey
Great Horned Owl / Bubo virginianus
Juvenile Swainson's Hawk / Buteo swainsoni
Yellow-bellied Marmot - from the archives
Northern Pygmy-owl - from the archives
Great Gray Owl - from the archives
Northern Pygmy-owl - from the archives
Great Gray Owl - from the archives
Wilson's Snipe - from the archives
Burrowing Owl, ENDANGERED - from the archives
Kananaskis, through the windshield
Burrowing Owl, ENDANGERED - from the archives
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl out on a tree limb
Great Gray Owl - from my archives
Day 7, Brown Anole (?) extending dewlap, southern…
Day 6, Green Jay / Cyanocorax yncas, southern Texa…
Day 7, Hong Kong orchid tree / Bauhinia (blakeana?…
Day 8, Snow Goose
Day 8, Snow Geese
Eastern Kingbird, SW of Calgary
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 8, Lapland Longspur, Quebec
A 'new' old homestead
Old red barn on a foggy day
Horse and hoar frost
Hoar frost tree and vanishing fields
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?
Red barn, High River Christmas Bird Count
Evening Grosbeak male, Priddis Count
Searching for a Great Horned Owl - with permission
Farm cat, High River Christmas Bird Count
Day 7, Harbor Seal, Saguenay Fjord, Tadoussac
Day 7 afternoon, Prince Shoal Lighthouse, near Tad…
Day 7 afternoon, Sand Dunes in distance
Day 7 afternoon, Prince Shoal Lighthouse
Day 7 afternoon, Prince Shoal Lighthouse, off Tado…
Day 7 afternoon, whaling trip off Tadoussac
Day 7 afternoon, Surf Scoters off Tadoussac
Day 7, American Robin, Tadoussac
Day 7, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Delicate hoarfrost
Day 6, and so ends another day, Tadoussac
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 7, American Robin, Tadoussac
Day 6, Swainson's Thrush, Tadoussac Golf Course
Day 6, Horned Lark, Tadoussac Golf Course
Day 6, part of Tadoussac, seen from up on the clif…
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 10, White-throated Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 6, the Chauvin Trading Post, Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 6, Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 10, American Goldfinch female, Tadoussac
Day 10, American Goldfinch male, Tadoussac
Day 6, Hotel Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 4, Baltimore Oriole, The Tip, Point Pelee
Winter in the park
Day 4, sleeping Raccoon, Point Pelee, Ontario
Day 4, Prothonotary Warbler, Point Pelee - ENDANGE…
Day 4, Raccoon, Point Pelee
Day 4, Wild Turkey, Pt Pelee, Ontario
Day 4, Wild Turkey, Pt Pelee
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Day 8, Snow Geese
The 10 images posted tonight were all taken on the morning of 14 May 2018, Day 8 of our two-week holiday in Point Pelee (Ontario) and Tadoussac (Quebec). Thankfully, I have reached a few much larger birds, which were a pleasure to see and photograph after struggling to get any shots of the small birds that we had just been seeing. However, those small birds were a real treat, especially the beautiful Lapland Longspurs. Though we do get them in Alberta, I have never seen one here. Most likely, I will never see one again, hence the distant shots that I have uploaded. I still have to track more or less where we saw these particular Snow Geese. The photo of a mass of distant Snow Geese was taken about 50 minutes after the shot of the Great Blue Heron, so the last few photos I have just uploaded were taken in the early afternoon. We get Snow Geese in Alberta, but on the few occasions that I have seen them, they have been far, far away.
"Watching huge flocks of Snow Geese swirl down from the sky, amid a cacophony of honking, is a little like standing inside a snow globe. These loud, white-and-black geese can cover the ground in a snowy blanket as they eat their way across fallow cornfields or wetlands. Among them, you might see a dark form with a white head—a color variant called the “Blue Goose.” Snow Geese have skyrocketed in numbers and are now among the most abundant waterfowl on the continent.
The Snow Goose is a white-bodied goose with black wingtips that are barely visible on the ground but noticeable in flight. The pink bill has a dark line along it, often called a "grinning patch" or "black lips." You may also see dark morph Snow Geese, or "Blue Geese," with a white face, dark brown body, and white under the tail.
Snow Geese don’t like to travel without the company of another couple dozen geese and can form flocks of several hundred thousand. Family groups forage together on wintering grounds, digging up roots and tubers from muddy fields and marshes. In flight, they are steady on the wing with even wingbeats." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Snow_Goose/id
"Watching huge flocks of Snow Geese swirl down from the sky, amid a cacophony of honking, is a little like standing inside a snow globe. These loud, white-and-black geese can cover the ground in a snowy blanket as they eat their way across fallow cornfields or wetlands. Among them, you might see a dark form with a white head—a color variant called the “Blue Goose.” Snow Geese have skyrocketed in numbers and are now among the most abundant waterfowl on the continent.
The Snow Goose is a white-bodied goose with black wingtips that are barely visible on the ground but noticeable in flight. The pink bill has a dark line along it, often called a "grinning patch" or "black lips." You may also see dark morph Snow Geese, or "Blue Geese," with a white face, dark brown body, and white under the tail.
Snow Geese don’t like to travel without the company of another couple dozen geese and can form flocks of several hundred thousand. Family groups forage together on wintering grounds, digging up roots and tubers from muddy fields and marshes. In flight, they are steady on the wing with even wingbeats." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Snow_Goose/id
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