Blossom on red
Farm dog
What insect is this (on my car)? Mosquito sp.?
Richardson's Ground Squirrel / Urocitellus richard…
Young Richardson's Ground Squirrel / Urocitellus r…
Eared Grebe / Podiceps nigricollis
Yellow-headed Blackbird / Xanthocephalus xanthocep…
Frank Lake bird blind
Yellow-headed Blackbird / Xanthocephalus xanthocep…
Common Grackle after a bath
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Mountain Bluebird male / Sialia currucoides
Mountain Bluebird male
Mountain Bluebird female
Mountain Bluebird male
Baltimore Oriole / Icterus galbula
Western Tanager / Piranga ludoviciana
Baltimore Oriole / Icterus galbula
Western Tanager / Piranga ludoviciana
Rose-breasted Grosbeak male / Pheucticus ludovicia…
Tree Swallow
Tree Swallow / Tachycineta bicolor
Tree Swallow / Tachycineta bicolor
Tree Swallow / Tachycineta bicolor
Yellow Warbler / Setophaga petechia
American Goldfinch female / Spinus tristis
Mountain Bluebird male / Sialia currucoides
Black Tern / Chlidonias niger
Wilson's Snipe / Gallinago delicata
Eastern Kingbird / Tyrannus tyrannus
Mountain Bluebird female / Sialia currucoides
Eastern Kingbird / Tyrannus tyrannus
Red-winged Blackbird male / Agelaius phoeniceus
Cedar Waxwing / Bombycilla cedrorum
Cicada
Cicada
Rare Thirteen-lined Groundsquirrel / Ictidomys tri…
Eastern Kingbird
Tree Swallow / Tachycineta bicolor
Eastern Kingbird / Tyrannus tyrannus
Wilson's Snipe / Gallinago delicata
Eileen with 3-week-old Flemish Giant Rabbit
Insect on Steven's shirt - some kind of Borer?
Eileen Tannas with baby Flemish Giant Rabbit
Osprey pair harassed by Red-winged Blackbird
Cedar Waxwing
Osprey
Cedar Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing
Osprey
Brown-headed Cowbird / Molothrus ater
Yellow Warbler / Setophaga petechia
Osprey / Pandion haliaetus
Mallard family swimming on the river
Cedar Waxwing / Bombycilla cedrorum
Moth with reflection
Upturned Three-flowered Avens / Geum triflorum
Fungi in the Ghost River forest
Treasures of the Ghost River forest - a little bi…
Mountain Bluebird male
Tree Swallow male / Tachycineta bicolor
Jackrabbit in my garden
Great Gray Owl - from my archives
Short-eared Owl out on a tree limb
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Burrowing Owl, ENDANGERED - from the archives
Kananaskis, through the windshield
Burrowing Owl, ENDANGERED - from the archives
Wilson's Snipe - from the archives
Great Gray Owl - from the archives
Northern Pygmy-owl - from the archives
Great Gray Owl - from the archives
Northern Pygmy-owl - from the archives
Yellow-bellied Marmot - from the archives
Juvenile Swainson's Hawk / Buteo swainsoni
Great Horned Owl / Bubo virginianus
Farm with sheep and a donkey
Northern Hawk Owl juevnile - from the archives
Barred Owl in FCPP - from the archives
A face only a mother could love
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
The big white barn
Wide open spaces
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Gobbler at the farm
The large, white bunny
Farmyard friends
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl - from January
Prairie winter
Welcome colour
Faces
Helmeted Guineafowl
Another see-through barn
House Sparrows are beautiful
A 'new' barn
Long-eared Owl
Eastern Kingbird, from my archives
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Dreaming of spring
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Late summer in Kananaskis
Harlequin Duck / Histrionicus histrionicus
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Peace in the countryside
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
Nodding (Musk) Thistle / Carduus nutans
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Prairie Falcon - Status: SENSITIVE, Species of Spe…
Short-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Male Snowy Owl
The beauty of hoar frost
Male Snowy Owl
Eastern Kingbird, SW of Calgary
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Mountain Bluebird male / Sialia currucoides
This was our weather over the weekend of 27 and 28 April 2019, when Calgary was 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." Early evening, wow, we have such a snowstorm - almost total white-out, with blowing snow! I don't know how anyone can see to drive. I don't look forward to looking out of my window in the morning."
Thought I would add a few more recent photos taken locally, before I start sorting and editing Day 5 photos from our trip to South Texas.
On 18 April 2019, I had to move my car out of the parking lot between 8:00 am and 6:00 pm, so that the lot could be cleaned (dried mud and gravel from all the months of winter). This meant I would have to find something to do for all those hours, so a drive out of the city made the most sense.
The morning started off with looking for a Mountain Bluebird or two. I saw several and was lucky enough to get a few photos of both the male and female. Though the male is much more colourful, I always think the female has her own beauty. The only other birds I saw and photographed were a Rough-legged Hawk and a Tree Swallow. The latter was giving the Bluebird pair a rough time, often going close to the Bluebird nesting box and causing the male to come in for the attack. Much as I love Tree Swallows, too, they can easily go to a nearby empty box and build their nest there. In fact, two boxes are supposed to be placed close together for this very reason.
As it was still so early in the day, the thought of an early lunch at the Saskatoon Farm came into my mind. I thought I knew the way to get there, going eastwards. However, it took me ages to find the way, as roads have two numbers/names and this is so confusing. I then remembered that this had happened to me in this area once before, ages ago. Eventually, I did get as far as the Farm, where I enjoyed their delicious quiche. A short wander round the grounds gave me a few photo opportunities, but the gardens have not yet been planted with all their flowers.
Still too early to return home, so I drove a bit further south and made a quick visit to Frank Lake. So much water around the blind and practically no birds. A number in the far distance, but a Canada Goose and a couple of Coots were the only ones near the blind. Things will get much better as time goes by. It was also very windy.
"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." Early evening, wow, we have such a snowstorm - almost total white-out, with blowing snow! I don't know how anyone can see to drive. I don't look forward to looking out of my window in the morning."
Thought I would add a few more recent photos taken locally, before I start sorting and editing Day 5 photos from our trip to South Texas.
On 18 April 2019, I had to move my car out of the parking lot between 8:00 am and 6:00 pm, so that the lot could be cleaned (dried mud and gravel from all the months of winter). This meant I would have to find something to do for all those hours, so a drive out of the city made the most sense.
The morning started off with looking for a Mountain Bluebird or two. I saw several and was lucky enough to get a few photos of both the male and female. Though the male is much more colourful, I always think the female has her own beauty. The only other birds I saw and photographed were a Rough-legged Hawk and a Tree Swallow. The latter was giving the Bluebird pair a rough time, often going close to the Bluebird nesting box and causing the male to come in for the attack. Much as I love Tree Swallows, too, they can easily go to a nearby empty box and build their nest there. In fact, two boxes are supposed to be placed close together for this very reason.
As it was still so early in the day, the thought of an early lunch at the Saskatoon Farm came into my mind. I thought I knew the way to get there, going eastwards. However, it took me ages to find the way, as roads have two numbers/names and this is so confusing. I then remembered that this had happened to me in this area once before, ages ago. Eventually, I did get as far as the Farm, where I enjoyed their delicious quiche. A short wander round the grounds gave me a few photo opportunities, but the gardens have not yet been planted with all their flowers.
Still too early to return home, so I drove a bit further south and made a quick visit to Frank Lake. So much water around the blind and practically no birds. A number in the far distance, but a Canada Goose and a couple of Coots were the only ones near the blind. Things will get much better as time goes by. It was also very windy.
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