The far side of the river valley
Bright and beautiful
Canon SX60 'artistry'
Bee on Tall Larkspur / Delphinium exaltatum
Fungus guttation droplets
Purple/Water Avens / Geum rivale
White Admiral
False Solomon's Seal
White Admiral
Fungi on a tree stump
Wild Licorice?
Sainfoin / Onobrychis
American White Pelicans on the Bow River
Sainfoin / Onobrychis
American White Pelicans on the Bow River
European Starling / Sturnus vulgaris
Flower close-up
Mountain Death Camas / Zigadenus elegans
Fungus
Osprey with a fish
Osprey with a fish
Yellow Mountain-avens / Dryas drummondii
Red Baneberry
Still standing, tall and proud
Two old churches in an almost-ghost-town
Very old grain elevator in the Badlands valley
Little old Catholic church in the Badlands
The remaining three
Flowers at the Saskatoon Farm - Solanum sp.
Berries in the sunshine
Yellow Prairie Coneflower / Mexican Hat
Globe Centurea / Centaurea macrocephala with bee
Colourful leaves
Artichoke
Splash of colour
Osprey
Campion / Silene sp.
Osprey
Baby House Wren in cavity
Campion
American Goldfinch collecting Thistle seeds
Wild Sunflower sp.
American Goldfinch collecting Thistle seeds
Barn Swallow
Maltese Cross / Lychnis chalcedonica
Colour in the garden
Slime mold, Pringle Mt forest walk
Pholiota destruens fungus on cut end of a log
Coral fungus sp.
Fungus
Pholiota terrestris growing in soil
Cystoderma cinnabarina
Cystoderma cinnabarina
Bolete
Yellow
Full of light
Backlit Sunflower
Amanita muscaria
Fly agaric / Amanita muscaria
Puffballs and others growing on a tree stump
Our leader for fungi walks, Karel Bergmann
Mushroom growing on top of a tall tree stump
Fly agaric / Amanita muscaria
Great Horned Owl - rehab
The yellow has bloomed!
Swainson's Hawk, immature
Golden Eagle!
Red-winged Blackbird male / Agelaius phoeniceus
Wilson's Snipe
Red-winged Blackbird displaying
Tree Swallow fledgeling
American Goldfinch male / Spinus tristis
Northern Flicker babies in cavity
House Sparrow feeding babies in cavity
Mourning Dove / Zenaida macroura
Eared Grebe & baby
Eared Grebe baby
Coot baby following in Mom's footsteps
Coot juvenile
Barn Swallow with feather for its nest
Eared Grebe with baby
Barn Swallow / Hirundo rustica
Eared Grebe / Podiceps nigricollis
Pika - tiny fluffball
Bighorn Sheep / Ovis canadensis
Bighorn Sheep / Ovis canadensis
Yellow Warbler with food for his babies
Osprey with fish
Northern Rough-winged Swallow / Stelgidopteryx ser…
Osprey with fish
Yellow Warbler female
Yellow Warbler male collecting insects
Northern Rough-winged Swallow / Stelgidopteryx ser…
Osprey with fish
Northern Rough-winged Swallow / Stelgidopteryx ser…
Osprey with fish
Northern Rough-winged Swallow / Stelgidopteryx ser…
Northern Rough-winged Swallow / Stelgidopteryx ser…
Bobolink / Dolichonyx oryzivorus, singing
Wilson's Snipe, having a stretch
Wilson's Snipe
Bobolink male / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Mountain Bluebird with Red-winged Grasshopper
Bobolink male / Dolichonyx oryzivorus, on a windy…
Mountain Bluebird with food for his babies
Mountain Bluebird
Bobolink male / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Mountain Bluebird male
Treasures of the Ghost River forest - a little bi…
Mushrooms, Erik Butters' field
Fungi in the Ghost River forest
Upturned Three-flowered Avens / Geum triflorum
Day 9, Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Resaca de la…
Day 9, Couch's Kingbird / Tyrannus couchii, Resaca…
Day 9, Great Crested Flycatcher / Myiarchus crinit…
Day 9, Couch's Kingbird, Resaca de la Palma SP, Te…
Cedar Waxwing / Bombycilla cedrorum
Mallard family swimming on the river
Osprey / Pandion haliaetus
Yellow Warbler / Setophaga petechia
Brown-headed Cowbird / Molothrus ater
Osprey
Cedar Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing
Osprey
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Colour for an overcast day
Friday, 19 July 2019 - our temperature is 13C (windchill 11C) this afternoon. Forecast is for cloudy with light rain this afternoon and evening. This is summer??
A couple of days ago, after seven or so long, brutal months of winter (coldest on record?) and now endless weeks of rain and cloud, I finally decided, enough is enough. I have become a fair-weather photographer, and we don't get that much fair weather, especially this year. So, yesterday, 18 July 2019, despite the weather forecast for a thunderstorm, I decided to drive SE of the city mid-afternoon. A few more days, and I will be spending the day with my daughter, though I'm not sure yet where she will choose to go. She (me, too) loves the Saskatoon Farm, but also wants to get out to a few golden Canola fields. Thought I would scout around beforehand. My plan had been to go to the Farm first and have a meal, and then continue on to Frank Lake. Seeing the beautiful storm clouds on my drive south, I was torn as to whether to go to Frank Lake first and catch a few photos. Then it occurred to me that I could also get a few sky shots once I had turned off the main highway and on to the country road leading to the Farm.
The Farm was pretty busy. So much wonderful colour everywhere that I almost forgot about the weather. That is, until I was eating outside under the open shelter. It was so cold, I had goosebumps, and the wind increased, sending a huge picnic table umbrella flying fast through the air. Just a short bit of rain and all returned to normal.
As usual, I wandered around the grounds, shooting flowers, rabbits, landscape, clouds, and old tractors. One barn stood out to me and had me puzzled. I have visited the farm many times before, but I don't remember seeing this particular barn before. It looked so pretty, with its colourful flower border.
Eventually, I continued my drive to Frank Lake. The storm clouds stayed with me. One side road has a small wetland on either side of the road and I pulled over to check what birds might be there. I was about to turn off my car when a loud buzzer sounded and a tornado alert was announced - to take shelter and if there was no shelter nearby, to get into a ditch or ravine. Then I heard that the area covered was further SE - in fact, where I had been a week earlier.
"Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) confirmed a weak EF0 tornado touched down two kilometres northeast of Crossfield at around 2:15 p.m. Sunday, 14 July 2019, marking the 12th confirmed twister of the season." (This was roughly 50 km north of Calgary.)
According to the weather agency, Alberta typically sees an average of 15 tornadoes per year with the peak season starting mid-to-late June and ending early-to-mid August.
So far in 2019, there have been 12 confirmed tornadoes in Alberta and three probable ones. There have also been many reports of funnel clouds." From Global News.
While i was standing by this wetland a White-faced Ibis flew in. I believe this was the first one I had really seen and photographed this year. Further on, when I was at the blind, there were so many Ruddy Ducks. The Barn Swallow pair flew back and forth to their nest that is just out of sight. I had checked to see if I could spot the Red Knot (bird), but without binoculars, it was pretty much impossible to check the very distant water birds.
A very enjoyable afternoon/evening. Mid-evening, the main highway wasn't very busy, and the rain only started when I arrived home and had to get out of the car.
A couple of days ago, after seven or so long, brutal months of winter (coldest on record?) and now endless weeks of rain and cloud, I finally decided, enough is enough. I have become a fair-weather photographer, and we don't get that much fair weather, especially this year. So, yesterday, 18 July 2019, despite the weather forecast for a thunderstorm, I decided to drive SE of the city mid-afternoon. A few more days, and I will be spending the day with my daughter, though I'm not sure yet where she will choose to go. She (me, too) loves the Saskatoon Farm, but also wants to get out to a few golden Canola fields. Thought I would scout around beforehand. My plan had been to go to the Farm first and have a meal, and then continue on to Frank Lake. Seeing the beautiful storm clouds on my drive south, I was torn as to whether to go to Frank Lake first and catch a few photos. Then it occurred to me that I could also get a few sky shots once I had turned off the main highway and on to the country road leading to the Farm.
The Farm was pretty busy. So much wonderful colour everywhere that I almost forgot about the weather. That is, until I was eating outside under the open shelter. It was so cold, I had goosebumps, and the wind increased, sending a huge picnic table umbrella flying fast through the air. Just a short bit of rain and all returned to normal.
As usual, I wandered around the grounds, shooting flowers, rabbits, landscape, clouds, and old tractors. One barn stood out to me and had me puzzled. I have visited the farm many times before, but I don't remember seeing this particular barn before. It looked so pretty, with its colourful flower border.
Eventually, I continued my drive to Frank Lake. The storm clouds stayed with me. One side road has a small wetland on either side of the road and I pulled over to check what birds might be there. I was about to turn off my car when a loud buzzer sounded and a tornado alert was announced - to take shelter and if there was no shelter nearby, to get into a ditch or ravine. Then I heard that the area covered was further SE - in fact, where I had been a week earlier.
"Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) confirmed a weak EF0 tornado touched down two kilometres northeast of Crossfield at around 2:15 p.m. Sunday, 14 July 2019, marking the 12th confirmed twister of the season." (This was roughly 50 km north of Calgary.)
According to the weather agency, Alberta typically sees an average of 15 tornadoes per year with the peak season starting mid-to-late June and ending early-to-mid August.
So far in 2019, there have been 12 confirmed tornadoes in Alberta and three probable ones. There have also been many reports of funnel clouds." From Global News.
While i was standing by this wetland a White-faced Ibis flew in. I believe this was the first one I had really seen and photographed this year. Further on, when I was at the blind, there were so many Ruddy Ducks. The Barn Swallow pair flew back and forth to their nest that is just out of sight. I had checked to see if I could spot the Red Knot (bird), but without binoculars, it was pretty much impossible to check the very distant water birds.
A very enjoyable afternoon/evening. Mid-evening, the main highway wasn't very busy, and the rain only started when I arrived home and had to get out of the car.
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