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23 May 2019


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Mountain Bluebird male

Mountain Bluebird male
With so little activity on Flickr at the moment, I thought I would add the rest of the photos I took on my short drive west on 23 May 2019. Rather a lot of Mountain Bluebird and Wilson's Snipe images, I'm afraid. Now I will be able to take a look at photos from 26 May, when I took part in the annual May Species Count (on the Sunday, not on the Saturday as well, as it was raining). All sorts of colourful birds on the Count : )

From 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. Looks like the same problem still exists today, 29 May.

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 a 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 11 +14 photos I have posted today are from this drive west.

The 23rd annual Count took place 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. Will post photos soon, hopefully.

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