Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Wedge Pond, Kananaskis, Alberta
Buller Pond, Kananaskis
Forgetmenot Pond, Kananaskis
Forgetmenot Pond
Wedge Pond in fading fall colours
Wedge Pond, Kananaskis
Day 2, young White Ibis, Connie Hagar Cottage Sanc…
Time to feed
Unidentified domestic Duck
Domestic duck, unidentified
Forgetmenot Pond, Elbow Falls Trail
Yellowlegs - Lesser or Greater?
On a cold summer day with mist and drizzle
Water Lily
Always a treat to see
Scarlet Ibis, Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
Couple of Coots / Fulica americana
Great Blue Heron, fishing
Fish Creek Park on a low-light day
Magpies, Wood Ducks and a (Greater?) Yellowlegs
Juvenile American Coot
Walker House, Inglewood Bird Sanctuary
Slough near Eagle Lake
American Coot and 'cootlings'
Forgetmenot Pond, Kananaskis
Forgetmenot Pond, Kananaskis
Forgetmenot Pond, Kananaskis
Red-necked Grebe / Podiceps grisegena
Redhead male / Aythya americana
Common Grackle / Quiscalus quiscula
Up close and personal
Redhead male
Muskrat, SW Calgary
Arethusa Cirque trail, Kananaskis
Posing nicely
Muskrat ripples
Black-necked Stilt
Feather finery of a female Mallard
Trumpeter Swan
A day of swans and ducks and geese
Leisurely swim
Autumn colours at the stormwater pond
The arrival of fall
Mt. Buller, Buller Pond, Kananaskis
Mt Lorette Ponds, Kananaskis
Waterton Lakes National Park
Middle Lake, Bow Valley Provincial Park
One of my favourite views
Chilean Flamingo
Red-necked Grebe
Finely iridescent
Canada Goose
Water patterns in matching colours
Willet / Tringa semipalmata
American Avocet in rippled water
Cinnamon Teal pair
Clouds, reflected
Fine feathers of a female Mallard
Colours made for each other
A sky filled with clouds
Lesser Scaup
Mallard female
Long-billed Dowitchers / Limnodromus scolopaceus
Fall reflections at Carburn Park
Up close and personal
Taking a closer look at the fish
Sparkles on Forgetmenot Pond
Deciduous yellow
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Common Grackle after a bath
One of the new problems on Flickr today is having comments and faves not appear. If you get a first comment or make a first comment on someone else's photo, that comment will disappear. The comment is listed under the "bell", but does not appear under the photo. The "bell" stated that I had a comment under each of the five photos I posted today. These were the first comments to be made. Two of the comments stayed, but there was no sign of the other three. The same with faves - some show up, others don't. Other people are having the same problem and have reported it to the Help Forum.
On 23 May 2019, Flickr was unusable and some of the channels on TV were also not working. Combined, these two things made me decide that enough is enough, and that I needed to go for a short drive.
My first stop was at a local pond in the city, where I enjoyed seeing this Lesser Scaup, a Coot, Mallards, and a Common Grackle or two. It was also fun to come across a small group of children with their "care-givers". I identified a Coot for them and told them that it was not a duck and that their babies were so ugly that they were very, very cute. I did see one Red-necked Grebe swimming, but I didn't venture further along the path as I zoomed in on two Police officers checking out a parked car along the pathway.
After spending a bit of time at this location, I drove westwards to my "usual" area, wondering if I would see Mountain Bluebirds and a Snipe. I was in luck with both. This is the area that my small "team" covers for the annual May Species Count, so I was curious as to what I/we might see. The 23rd annual Count took place yesterday, 26 May. The weather was good (3C - 17C) - no sign of the rain that we've been getting on far too many days recently. However we desperately need the moisture. There are already wild fires in Alberta and the number will only increase over the summer.
There were nine of us on the May Species Count, travelling in two cars. We were out for 7 hours, travelling 52 km in our Count area, and saw 66 bird species. I will add the list of species in a comment box below so that I will be able to look back in a year's time and remind myself of what we saw in 2019.
On 23 May 2019, Flickr was unusable and some of the channels on TV were also not working. Combined, these two things made me decide that enough is enough, and that I needed to go for a short drive.
My first stop was at a local pond in the city, where I enjoyed seeing this Lesser Scaup, a Coot, Mallards, and a Common Grackle or two. It was also fun to come across a small group of children with their "care-givers". I identified a Coot for them and told them that it was not a duck and that their babies were so ugly that they were very, very cute. I did see one Red-necked Grebe swimming, but I didn't venture further along the path as I zoomed in on two Police officers checking out a parked car along the pathway.
After spending a bit of time at this location, I drove westwards to my "usual" area, wondering if I would see Mountain Bluebirds and a Snipe. I was in luck with both. This is the area that my small "team" covers for the annual May Species Count, so I was curious as to what I/we might see. The 23rd annual Count took place yesterday, 26 May. The weather was good (3C - 17C) - no sign of the rain that we've been getting on far too many days recently. However we desperately need the moisture. There are already wild fires in Alberta and the number will only increase over the summer.
There were nine of us on the May Species Count, travelling in two cars. We were out for 7 hours, travelling 52 km in our Count area, and saw 66 bird species. I will add the list of species in a comment box below so that I will be able to look back in a year's time and remind myself of what we saw in 2019.
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