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
Day 9, Couch's Kingbird, Resaca de la Palma SP, Te…
Day 9, Great Crested Flycatcher / Myiarchus crinit…
Day 9, Couch's Kingbird / Tyrannus couchii, Resaca…
Day 9, Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Resaca de la…
Fungi in the Ghost River forest
Treasures of the Ghost River forest - a little bi…
Mountain Bluebird male
Bobolink male / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Mountain Bluebird
Mountain Bluebird with food for his babies
Bobolink male / Dolichonyx oryzivorus, on a windy…
Mountain Bluebird with Red-winged Grasshopper
Bobolink male / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Wilson's Snipe
Wilson's Snipe, having a stretch
Bobolink / Dolichonyx oryzivorus, singing
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
Bighorn Sheep / Ovis canadensis
Gravel and dust - a favourite road
Bighorn Sheep / Ovis canadensis
Pika - tiny fluffball
Eared Grebe / Podiceps nigricollis
Barn Swallow / Hirundo rustica
Storm clouds moving in
Eared Grebe with baby
Storm clouds in the direction of home
Barn Swallow with feather for its nest
Coot juvenile
Coot baby following in Mom's footsteps
Eared Grebe baby
Eared Grebe & baby
House Sparrow feeding babies in cavity
Northern Flicker babies in cavity
American Goldfinch male / Spinus tristis
Tree Swallow fledgeling
Red-winged Blackbird displaying
A new find
Wilson's Snipe
Red-winged Blackbird male / Agelaius phoeniceus
Old, red barn
Golden Eagle!
Eileen with 3-week-old Flemish Giant Rabbit
Wilson's Snipe / Gallinago delicata
Eastern Kingbird / Tyrannus tyrannus
Tree Swallow / Tachycineta bicolor
Eastern Kingbird
Rare Thirteen-lined Groundsquirrel / Ictidomys tri…
Cedar Waxwing / Bombycilla cedrorum
Day 8, tiny Elf Owl / Micrathene whitneyi - smalle…
Day 8, bird blind, Santa Ana National Wildlife Ref…
Red-winged Blackbird male / Agelaius phoeniceus
Eastern Kingbird / Tyrannus tyrannus
Mountain Bluebird female / Sialia currucoides
Eastern Kingbird / Tyrannus tyrannus
Wilson's Snipe / Gallinago delicata
Black Tern / Chlidonias niger
Mountain Bluebird male / Sialia currucoides
American Goldfinch female / Spinus tristis
Yellow Warbler / Setophaga petechia
Rose-breasted Grosbeak male / Pheucticus ludovicia…
Western Tanager / Piranga ludoviciana
Baltimore Oriole / Icterus galbula
Western Tanager / Piranga ludoviciana
Baltimore Oriole / Icterus galbula
Mountain Bluebird male
Mountain Bluebird female
Mountain Bluebird male
Mountain Bluebird male / Sialia currucoides
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Lesser Scaup male / Aythya affinis
Common Grackle after a bath
Yellow-headed Blackbird / Xanthocephalus xanthocep…
Frank Lake bird blind
Yellow-headed Blackbird / Xanthocephalus xanthocep…
Eared Grebe / Podiceps nigricollis
Young Richardson's Ground Squirrel / Urocitellus r…
Richardson's Ground Squirrel / Urocitellus richard…
What insect is this (on my car)? Mosquito sp.?
Farm dog
Blossom on red
Day 7, Brown Anole with extended dewlap, Estero Ll…
Day 7, Hong Kong Orchid tree, Estero Llano Grande…
Day 7, Hong Kong Orchid tree, Estero Llano Grande…
Day 7, Northern Cardinal male
Day 6, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron / Nyctanassa vio…
Day 6, Purple Martin / Progne subis
Day 6, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron / Nyctanassa vio…
Day 6, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron / Nyctanassa vio…
Day 6, Purple Martin / Progne subis
Day 6, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron / Nyctanassa vio…
Day 6, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron / Nyctanassa vio…
Day 6, Purple Martin / Progne subis
Day 6, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Day 6, Yellow-crowned Night-Herons
Day 6, Yellow-crowned Night-Heron
Day 6, Northern Cardinal male / Cardinalis cardina…
Day 6, Golden-fronted Woodpecker male / Melanerpes…
Day 6, Great-tailed Grackle male / Quiscalus mexic…
Day 6, Plain Chachalaca / Ortalis vetula
Day 6, White-tipped Dove / Leptotila verreauxi
Day 6, Plain Chachalaca / Ortalis vetula
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Eileen Tannas with baby Flemish Giant Rabbit
Practically no activity on Flickr, so I decided to edit and post the rest of my photos from yesterday's great visit to the Tannas Farm, north of the city.
Yesterday, 16 June 2019, a small group of us had an amazing visit with Eileen and Steven Tannas at their farm, north of Cochrane. One or two of us had been there several times previously, but to everyone else, this was a new experience.
This very enthusiastic couple work so hard in the area of native species, growing various species in their greenhouses. They do a lot of research in connection with doing things naturally. On our last visit, Steven was excited to show us some of his new additions - pigs. I love pigs, but was totally unprepared to see large pigs that were covered in curly hair! His pigs are called Mangalitsa pigs (also called Mangalica or Mangalitza) - last visit, three of them were Swallow-bellied Mangalica (black and blonde) and one was a Red Mangalica (reddish-brown). One female had piglets a few weeks ago - so cute, and you can see the curls just beginning to start.
They have already lost their stripes. They are being fed left-over, expired grocery store vegetables, thanks to Save-On Foods, so were busily munching on a variety of nutritious fruits. What an excellent way to not waste expired food at the same time as donating a wonderful source of fruit and vegetables to feed healthy animals. They also receive left-over bread from a baker.
"The Mangalica (also Mangalitsa or Mangalitza) is a Hungarian breed of domestic pig. It was developed in the mid-19th century by crossbreeding Hungarian breeds from Szalonta and Bakony with the European wild boar and the Serbian Šumadija breed. The Mangalica pig grows a thick, woolly coat similar to that of a sheep. The only other pig breed noted for having a long coat is the extinct Lincolnshire Curly-coated pig of England." From Wikipedia.
modernfarmer.com/2014/03/meet-mangalitsa-hairy-pig-thats-...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangalica
We also enjoyed seeing their chickens/roosters, and what fine looking birds they are - and I suspect they know it, judging by the way they stride around. They have to be kept in an enclosure, to keep foxes, etc. away from them. I never knew that chickens will eat mice!
Another project is raising Flemish Giant Rabbits, only for feeding their own family. These are large, beautiful rabbits. One female had had babies just three weeks ago, and we had the chance to hold one of these tiny creatures. Their fur is so silky.
Since our last visit, so many new projects have been started. So much information from this extremely knowledgeable couple - what a great team they make! I will add what I wrote under an older photo, but there will be new links and info available on their websites,
Steven runs Tannas Conservation Services Ltd.. One of their projects is the rough fescue (native grass) restoration project, which has been very successful over the past 7+ years. Check the links below to discover all the other things that Steven's work involves:
www.tannasenvironmental.com/about-us/our-history.html
www.tannasenvironmental.com/
www.nativeplantproducer-esrs.com/About-Us.htm
Thank you so much, Eileen and Steven, for spending an afternoon with us, taking us to all parts of your most impressive farm and explaining in great detail all the research you are doing. What a pleasure it is to see your three little children living such a healthy life and learning so much.
Thank you, Anne, for giving two of us a ride there and back! Greatly appreciated. Without your willingness to do this, I suspect there may have been no trip yesterday.
Yesterday, 16 June 2019, a small group of us had an amazing visit with Eileen and Steven Tannas at their farm, north of Cochrane. One or two of us had been there several times previously, but to everyone else, this was a new experience.
This very enthusiastic couple work so hard in the area of native species, growing various species in their greenhouses. They do a lot of research in connection with doing things naturally. On our last visit, Steven was excited to show us some of his new additions - pigs. I love pigs, but was totally unprepared to see large pigs that were covered in curly hair! His pigs are called Mangalitsa pigs (also called Mangalica or Mangalitza) - last visit, three of them were Swallow-bellied Mangalica (black and blonde) and one was a Red Mangalica (reddish-brown). One female had piglets a few weeks ago - so cute, and you can see the curls just beginning to start.
They have already lost their stripes. They are being fed left-over, expired grocery store vegetables, thanks to Save-On Foods, so were busily munching on a variety of nutritious fruits. What an excellent way to not waste expired food at the same time as donating a wonderful source of fruit and vegetables to feed healthy animals. They also receive left-over bread from a baker.
"The Mangalica (also Mangalitsa or Mangalitza) is a Hungarian breed of domestic pig. It was developed in the mid-19th century by crossbreeding Hungarian breeds from Szalonta and Bakony with the European wild boar and the Serbian Šumadija breed. The Mangalica pig grows a thick, woolly coat similar to that of a sheep. The only other pig breed noted for having a long coat is the extinct Lincolnshire Curly-coated pig of England." From Wikipedia.
modernfarmer.com/2014/03/meet-mangalitsa-hairy-pig-thats-...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangalica
We also enjoyed seeing their chickens/roosters, and what fine looking birds they are - and I suspect they know it, judging by the way they stride around. They have to be kept in an enclosure, to keep foxes, etc. away from them. I never knew that chickens will eat mice!
Another project is raising Flemish Giant Rabbits, only for feeding their own family. These are large, beautiful rabbits. One female had had babies just three weeks ago, and we had the chance to hold one of these tiny creatures. Their fur is so silky.
Since our last visit, so many new projects have been started. So much information from this extremely knowledgeable couple - what a great team they make! I will add what I wrote under an older photo, but there will be new links and info available on their websites,
Steven runs Tannas Conservation Services Ltd.. One of their projects is the rough fescue (native grass) restoration project, which has been very successful over the past 7+ years. Check the links below to discover all the other things that Steven's work involves:
www.tannasenvironmental.com/about-us/our-history.html
www.tannasenvironmental.com/
www.nativeplantproducer-esrs.com/About-Us.htm
Thank you so much, Eileen and Steven, for spending an afternoon with us, taking us to all parts of your most impressive farm and explaining in great detail all the research you are doing. What a pleasure it is to see your three little children living such a healthy life and learning so much.
Thank you, Anne, for giving two of us a ride there and back! Greatly appreciated. Without your willingness to do this, I suspect there may have been no trip yesterday.
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