Day 4, Silver argiope / Argiope argentata, Bishop…
Gorgeous succulent flower
Day 5, White Prickly Poppy / Argemone albiflora
Day 5, wildflowers, King Ranch, Norias Division
Day 7, Hong Kong Orchid tree, Estero Llano Grande…
Wild Blue Clematis
Insect on Steven's shirt - some kind of Borer?
Opening Gaillardia flower
Colour for an overcast day
Bright and beautiful
Bee on Tall Larkspur / Delphinium exaltatum
Fungus guttation droplets
Purple/Water Avens / Geum rivale
Wild Licorice?
Sainfoin / Onobrychis
Sainfoin / Onobrychis
Flower close-up
Mountain Death Camas / Zigadenus elegans
Red Baneberry
Flowers at the Saskatoon Farm - Solanum sp.
Yellow Prairie Coneflower / Mexican Hat
Globe Centurea / Centaurea macrocephala with bee
Gazania
Opening Sunflower bud
Sunflower in full bloom
Campion / Silene sp.
Campion
Wild Sunflower sp.
Colour in the garden
Edible King Oyster mushrooms, Akesi Farms
Watched by wooden eyes
Slime mold, Pringle Mt forest walk
Pholiota destruens fungus on cut end of a log
Pholiota terrestris growing in soil
Cystoderma cinnabarina
Cystoderma cinnabarina
Bolete
Gaillardia
Backlit Sunflower
Amanita muscaria
Fly agaric / Amanita muscaria
Puffballs and others growing on a tree stump
Sitting Earthstar / Geoastrum sessile
Highlight of my day - Fly agaric / Amanita muscari…
Shaggy parasol / Macrolepidota rhachodes
Shaggy parasol / Chlorophyllum (formerly Macrolepi…
Not "The Sickener"
Sunflower, against a pink barn
Orange False Dandelion
Shaggy Mane / Inky Cap
A summer memory
Amanita muscaria, with insects (mosquitoes?)
Brown Cup & Golden Pluteus / Pluteus chrysophlebiu…
Spathiphyllum wallisii
Garden flower
Colours of fall
Hooded False Morel / Gyromitra infula – poisonous
Puffballs on a rotting log
Honey Mushrooms / Armillaria mellea
Hops / Humulus lupulus
Hot Wings Maple
The sunflower droop
Mold on a fungus?
THE TICK THAT BIT ME in South Texas! LONE STAR TI…
Day 1, Thistle / pink form of Cirsium horridulum,…
Day 1, Thistle / Cirsium horridulum, southern Texa…
Day 1, Thistle sp., southern Texas
Day 1, Thistle sp., southern Texas
Day 1, Thistle sp., southern Texas
Day 7, Hong Kong orchid tree / Bauhinia (blakeana?…
Dreaming of spring
Day 12, male Firefly, probably in genus Photinus,…
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Delicate hoarfrost
Day 9, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Day 6, White-crowned Sparrow, Tadoussac
Winter in the park
Fall colours
A much-needed change of colour
Lest We Forget
Day 3, Daffodil (Narcissus?) growing wild, Pt Pele…
Day 3, Dryad's Saddle (?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Day 3, Daffodil (or Narcissus?), Pt Pelee, Ontario
Day 3, Large-flowered Bellwort / Uvularia grandifl…
Powderpuff flower
Weathered door
Pumpkin season, kid-style
When fall comes after 'winter'
Day 2, White Trillium, Rondeau PP
Day 2, a more typical Trillium, Rondeau PP
Day 2, yes, another Trillium, Rondeau PP
Trillium, Day 2, Rondeau PP, Ontario
Much-needed colour!
After our first major snowstorm
Happy Thanksgivng, everyone!
Artichoke in bloom
Sea Holly
Clouded Sulphur on Lettuce sp.?
Butterfly on Joe Pye Weed
Globe Thistle / Echinops ritro
Living on the edge
Beauty of a weed
Let the light shine in
Most likely a Ground Pholiota / Pholiota terrestri…
Beautiful guttation droplets on a polypore
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
Resting on a window
Water Lily
Hibiscus beauty
Purple Avens / Water Avens / Geum rivale
Wildflowers at Peyto Lake
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Day 4, Aloe vera, Bishop City Park, South Texas
Adding this note on 27 April 2019. What is going on with Flickr??? Most of people's images (including mine) have disappeared and the remaining ones are totally blurry when clicked on. I see that staff are aware of this very unpleasant issue, so hopefully all will return to normal VERY quickly.
Second note: Calgary is under a Winter Storm Warning. Hazardous winter conditions are expected. Rapidly accumulating snow could make travel difficult over some locations. Visibility will be suddenly reduced to near zero at times in heavy snow and blowing snow." The snow hasn't arrived here yet .....
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I am done with Gulls and Terns, at least from Day 4 of our 13-day trip. The 13 photos I have just posted very late tonight were all taken at Bishop City Park, on our way to Kingsville. Just a handful more photos and I will be able to start on Day 5, which was a day trip to the enormous King Ranch. One of the highlights of that day was seeing a pair of Ferruginous Pygmy Owls, at the end of our private tour of the Ranch, as well as some new birds for us, such as the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher and the Vermilion Flycatcher. Perhaps the highlight for me was when I caught sight of a little Texas horned lizard near my feet, something I had longed to see for a few years. As far as animals go, two nice sightings were a Javelina/Collared Peccary and six exotic Nilgai antelope from India that had been imported to the King Ranch in 1930. We only got a fleeting glimpse of their rear ends as they raced away through the trees.
Day 4, 22 March, of our 13-day birding trip to South Texas, 19-31 March 2019, was a day of birding and also driving from Rockport, where we had stayed for three nights, to Kingsville. Earlier in the day, we had spent time at the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Centre/the Port Aransas Nature Preserve. We loved this great Birding Centre, getting great views of the various bird species, looking down from the new boardwalk that has been built after Hurricane Harvey destroyed the previous one in 2017. Lots of birds; even a huge Alligator.
We spent some time on the beach at Mustang Island State Park, watching and listening to the Laughing Gulls. They are such fun to watch and to photograph. The Royal Terns are so beautiful, always looking quite regal in their posture. At one point, a man started feeding the Gulls down the beach, and they swarmed over and around him. Managed to get a couple of distant shots.
After our short walk along this beach, we continued our drive towards Kingville, where we were going to spend two nights at the Hampton Inn. We had time to stop at Bishop City Park before we reached Kingsville. We saw several Aloe vera plants growing when we walked around the large duck pond. I think the first time I saw these succulents was at the Blue Waters Inn on the island of Tobago in 2017. Quite spectacular. We did see a Northern Rough-winged Swallow there and a Couch's Kingbird.
"Bishop’s City Park is located just west of the U.S. Highway 77 Bypass on South Birch Avenue and features a community center, two baseball fields for little league and high school baseball, a covered basketball court and a large lot for recreational activities. In addition, the City Park also offers visitors a 0.6 mile hiking trail and a 9.1 acre lake in which waterfowl are frequent visitors. Several families of ducks and geese have also made their home under the park’s two observation decks built out over the lake."
www.bishoptx.com/our-community/parks/#prettyPhoto
Second note: Calgary is under a Winter Storm Warning. Hazardous winter conditions are expected. Rapidly accumulating snow could make travel difficult over some locations. Visibility will be suddenly reduced to near zero at times in heavy snow and blowing snow." The snow hasn't arrived here yet .....
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I am done with Gulls and Terns, at least from Day 4 of our 13-day trip. The 13 photos I have just posted very late tonight were all taken at Bishop City Park, on our way to Kingsville. Just a handful more photos and I will be able to start on Day 5, which was a day trip to the enormous King Ranch. One of the highlights of that day was seeing a pair of Ferruginous Pygmy Owls, at the end of our private tour of the Ranch, as well as some new birds for us, such as the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher and the Vermilion Flycatcher. Perhaps the highlight for me was when I caught sight of a little Texas horned lizard near my feet, something I had longed to see for a few years. As far as animals go, two nice sightings were a Javelina/Collared Peccary and six exotic Nilgai antelope from India that had been imported to the King Ranch in 1930. We only got a fleeting glimpse of their rear ends as they raced away through the trees.
Day 4, 22 March, of our 13-day birding trip to South Texas, 19-31 March 2019, was a day of birding and also driving from Rockport, where we had stayed for three nights, to Kingsville. Earlier in the day, we had spent time at the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Centre/the Port Aransas Nature Preserve. We loved this great Birding Centre, getting great views of the various bird species, looking down from the new boardwalk that has been built after Hurricane Harvey destroyed the previous one in 2017. Lots of birds; even a huge Alligator.
We spent some time on the beach at Mustang Island State Park, watching and listening to the Laughing Gulls. They are such fun to watch and to photograph. The Royal Terns are so beautiful, always looking quite regal in their posture. At one point, a man started feeding the Gulls down the beach, and they swarmed over and around him. Managed to get a couple of distant shots.
After our short walk along this beach, we continued our drive towards Kingville, where we were going to spend two nights at the Hampton Inn. We had time to stop at Bishop City Park before we reached Kingsville. We saw several Aloe vera plants growing when we walked around the large duck pond. I think the first time I saw these succulents was at the Blue Waters Inn on the island of Tobago in 2017. Quite spectacular. We did see a Northern Rough-winged Swallow there and a Couch's Kingbird.
"Bishop’s City Park is located just west of the U.S. Highway 77 Bypass on South Birch Avenue and features a community center, two baseball fields for little league and high school baseball, a covered basketball court and a large lot for recreational activities. In addition, the City Park also offers visitors a 0.6 mile hiking trail and a 9.1 acre lake in which waterfowl are frequent visitors. Several families of ducks and geese have also made their home under the park’s two observation decks built out over the lake."
www.bishoptx.com/our-community/parks/#prettyPhoto
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