Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Yellow Warbler / Setophaga petechia
Cedar Waxwing / Bombycilla cedrorum
Cicada
Cicada
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
Northern Rough-winged Swallow / Stelgidopteryx ser…
Northern Rough-winged Swallow / Stelgidopteryx ser…
Osprey with fish
Northern Rough-winged Swallow / Stelgidopteryx ser…
Osprey with fish
Northern Rough-winged Swallow / Stelgidopteryx ser…
Yellow Warbler male collecting insects
Yellow Warbler female
Osprey with fish
Northern Rough-winged Swallow / Stelgidopteryx ser…
Osprey with fish
Yellow Warbler with food for his babies
Eared Grebe with baby
Wild Licorice?
Sainfoin / Onobrychis
American White Pelicans on the Bow River
Sainfoin / Onobrychis
American White Pelicans on the Bow River
Osprey with a fish
Osprey with a fish
Osprey
Campion / Silene sp.
Osprey
Campion
American Goldfinch collecting Thistle seeds
Wild Sunflower sp.
American Goldfinch collecting Thistle seeds
Gaillardia
Backlit Sunflower
Shaggy Mane / Inky Cap
A summer memory
Conservatory, Calgary Zoo
Spathiphyllum wallisii
Garden flower
Colours of fall
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Common Grackle after a bath
Jackrabbit in my garden
Northern Pygmy-owl - from the archives
Northern Pygmy-owl - from the archives
Farm with sheep and a donkey
Barred Owl in FCPP - from the archives
Dreaming of spring
Nodding (Musk) Thistle / Carduus nutans
Fish Creek Park on New Year's Day
Who made these holes?
Happy Christmas Day!
Merry Christmas, everyone!
Delicate hoarfrost
Winter in the park
Fall colours
A much-needed change of colour
Lest We Forget
Harlequin Duck male
Licorice Allsorts (candy) eyes
Pet 'rescue' Ferret
Great Horned Owl
A pet 'rescue' Ferret
Powderpuff flower
Great Horned Owl
Wood Duck male
A Ferret in the park
When fall comes after 'winter'
Much-needed colour!
After our first major snowstorm
Red Panda / Ailurus fulgens
Snow Leopard / Panthera uncia
Happy Thanksgivng, everyone!
Perfectly purple
Sea Holly
Maple sp.?
Turkistan Burning Bush / Euonymus nanus turkmenist…
On a cold summer day with mist and drizzle
Wood Duck male / Aix sponsa
Globe Thistle / Echinops ritro
The painted cow - "Some enchanted evening"
Wood Duck male / Aix sponsa
Spooked by a barking dog
Mountain Ash berries
Beauty of a weed
Osprey number 2 / Pandion haliaetus
Broad-winged Hawk
Cracker sp.
Succulent beauty
Himalayan Monal female
Nodding Thistle / Musk Thistle / Carduus nutans
Botanizing Beagles - Ben and Maggie
Invasive Yellow Clematis
Himalayan monal / Lophophorus impejanus male
Chameleon
Resting on a window
Water Lily
Calgary's special guests
Hibiscus beauty
Always a treat to see
Colobus monkey - such a poser
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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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