Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Mallard family swimming on the river
Day 9, Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Resaca de la…
Frank Lake birding blind
Eared Grebe / Podiceps nigricollis
Storm clouds moving in
Eared Grebe with baby
Coot juvenile
Coot baby following in Mom's footsteps
Eared Grebe baby
Eared Grebe & baby
American White Pelicans on the Bow River
American White Pelicans on the Bow River
Afternoon trip to the mountains
Wedge Pond, Kananaskis, Alberta
Buller Pond, Kananaskis
Forgetmenot Pond, Kananaskis
Forgetmenot Pond
Wedge Pond in fading fall colours
Barrier Lake, Kananaskis
Wedge Pond, Kananaskis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Common Grackle after a bath
Frank Lake bird blind
Eared Grebe / Podiceps nigricollis
Day 4, Royal Terns / Thalasseus maximus, Mustang I…
Day 4, Laughing Gulls, Mustang Island, Texas
Day 4, Royal Terns, Mustang Island, Texas
Day 4, Royal Tern / Thalasseus maximus, Mustang Is…
Day 4, Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Day 4, Common Gallinule, Leonabelle Turnbull Birdi…
Day 4, Alligator, Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Cent…
Day 4, Black-bellied Whistling Duck / Dendrocygna…
Day 4, Common Gallinule, Leonabelle Turnbull Birdi…
Day 3, Double-crested Cormorants, Aransas boat tri…
Day 3, Cormorant drying its wings, Aransas boat tr…
Day 3, Whooping Crane colt flexing its wings, Aran…
Day 3, Whooping Crane colt, Aransas, Texas
Day 3, ENDANGERED Whooping Cranes / Grus americana…
Day 2, young White Ibis, Connie Hagar Cottage Sanc…
Day 2, sunrise 8
Harlequin Duck / Histrionicus histrionicus
Day 8, Snow Goose / Anser caerulescens
Day 8, Snow Geese
Day 8, Snow Goose
Day 8, Snow Geese
Day 7 afternoon, Prince Shoal Lighthouse, near Tad…
Day 7 afternoon, Prince Shoal Lighthouse
Day 7 afternoon, Prince Shoal Lighthouse, off Tado…
Day 7 afternoon, Surf Scoters off Tadoussac
Day 6, part of Tadoussac, seen from up on the clif…
Day 6, Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 3, on the way to Hillman Marsh, Ontario
Yes, it's the American Dipper again
A view from Chain Lakes
Harlequin Duck male
American Dipper
Into the sun at Pine Coulee Reservoir
American Dipper dipping
Clouds over Chain Lakes
Tundra Swans
Time to feed
Unidentified domestic Duck
American Dipper dipping
American Dipper / Cinclus mexicanus
American Dipper / Cinclus mexicanus
Clouds over Chain Lakes
Domestic duck, unidentified
Forgetmenot Pond, Elbow Falls Trail
Day 2, a wetland after Rondeau PP
Wood Duck male
Day 2, reflected 'Geese', Rondeau PP
Yellowlegs - Lesser or Greater?
Harlequin Duck / Histrionicus histrionicus
Fall colours near the Highwood River
Black-necked Stilt (juvenile?)
American Avocets
On a cold summer day with mist and drizzle
Wood Duck male / Aix sponsa
Wood Duck male / Aix sponsa
Black-necked Stilt (juvenile?) / Himantopus mexica…
Thirsty Bighorn Sheep
Smokey Eagle Lake
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Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Yesterday, 27 May 2019 - 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 the day before yesterday, on 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. It is supposed to be another bad summer with fires and smoke.
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 the day before yesterday, on 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. It is supposed to be another bad summer with fires and smoke.
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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