Kananaskis on a mixed-weather day
Late September in Kananaskis, 2019
Shaggy Mane / Inky Cap
Colours of fall
Forgetmenot Pond, Kananaskis
Forgetmenot Pond
Beautiful Alberta - prairie, foothills and mountai…
Terrible photos - but it was a GRIZZLY : )
Grizzly & one of her two cubs
Showing its age
Domesticated Helmeted Guineafowl / "Numida meleagr…
The sunflower droop
Bighorn Sheep female
Kananaskis 'winter'
Grizzly female (#152) and cubs
Wedge Pond in fading fall colours
Barrier Lake, Kananaskis
Bighorn Sheep
Kananaskis
Bighorn Sheep licking salt off the highway
Wedge Pond, Kananaskis
Grizzly Bear sow - mother of two cubs
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
Bighorn Sheep female
Swans in the sunlight
Kananaskis, through the windshield
Barred Owl in FCPP - from the archives
The big white barn
Delicate hoarfrost
Winter in the park
Fall colours
Yes, it's the American Dipper again
A view from Chain Lakes
Harlequin Duck male
On the way to Chain Lakes
Licorice Allsorts (candy) eyes
Pet 'rescue' Ferret
Rural decay down south
Great Horned Owl
A pet 'rescue' Ferret
Powderpuff flower
American Dipper
Into the sun at Pine Coulee Reservoir
American Dipper dipping
Clouds over Chain Lakes
Tundra Swans
For the birds
Mama Turkey (domestic)
Old farm wagon wheel
Time to feed
Birdhouse with a difference
Friendly horse
The Straw Barn
Unknown duck species (domestic)
Peeling paint patterns
One of these things is not like the others ...
Unidentified domestic Duck
Bringing the straw bales
The picture of contentment
Weathered door
Barn with ducks, chickens and rabbit
Old farm wagon
American Dipper dipping
Two of my favourite things
American Dipper / Cinclus mexicanus
Looking into the sun
American Dipper / Cinclus mexicanus
Clouds over Chain Lakes
Tundra Swans in flight
Beauty in old age
Domestic duck, unidentified
Fine old truck
Pumpkin season, kid-style
Forgetmenot Pond, Elbow Falls Trail
Great Horned Owl
Wood Duck male
A Ferret in the park
When fall comes after 'winter'
Filtered barn
A favourite barn
Harvest time
On its last legs
The storm rolls in
Much-needed colour!
Yellowlegs - Lesser or Greater?
Early fall, looking (and feeling) like winter
Heading into the mountains
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Not "The Sickener"
Happy fall, everyone! Here, our temperatures are forecast to plunge to 0C this weekend (28 and 29 September 2019), along with SNOW for a few days! Noooooo!
The poisonous "Sickener" mushroom looks very similar to the mushroom above, but has a pure white stem. The one in this photo has a stem that is pale pink at the top and white lower down.
Instead of posting more mushroom/fungus photos tonight, I had thought about uploading a few totally different images. However, I have ended up starting to post photos (8) from today, 22 September 2019. We were fortunate enough to be invited to explore another acreage SW of the city. It is so interesting to see that various acreages, really not all that far from each other, can have some different species.
Again, I drove myself instead of carpooling, as I had been invited to a friend's birthday party and needed to get back to the city by a certain time, in order to get a ride with another friend. From years of experience, I know only too well that once you get our enthusiastic leaders into the field, there is no telling how long they will stay out there! Normally, that is fine, but today I had a deadline.
The weather was beautiful for our bioblitz, which was so much appreciated, as there are snowflake icons in our weather forecast in a few days' time. It still definitely feels like fall, though, and golden leaves were constantly falling to the ground, making it a challenge to see any fungi. Many of the mushrooms we saw today have started to rapidly decline, but others proved to be of interest. One of my favourites was a mushroom that had a number of water droplets on its cap. I could be wrong, but I suspect that these were guttation droplets, Usually, I see these on Red-belted polypores growing on tree trunks, so it was interesting to see these on the cap of a smallish mushroom.
We were warmly welcomed by the landowners, Michael and Marie-Claude Singleton. Marie-Claude accompanied us on the walk, which was great. Their beautiful property is a mix of mowed lawn (that certain mushrooms love), grassland and forest. They have a beautiful pond, too, edged with very healthy cattails and other water plants.
Thank you so much, Michael and Marie-Claude, for inviting us to come and see what is growing on your land. The coffee, too, was just what was needed after time spent outdoors.
The poisonous "Sickener" mushroom looks very similar to the mushroom above, but has a pure white stem. The one in this photo has a stem that is pale pink at the top and white lower down.
Instead of posting more mushroom/fungus photos tonight, I had thought about uploading a few totally different images. However, I have ended up starting to post photos (8) from today, 22 September 2019. We were fortunate enough to be invited to explore another acreage SW of the city. It is so interesting to see that various acreages, really not all that far from each other, can have some different species.
Again, I drove myself instead of carpooling, as I had been invited to a friend's birthday party and needed to get back to the city by a certain time, in order to get a ride with another friend. From years of experience, I know only too well that once you get our enthusiastic leaders into the field, there is no telling how long they will stay out there! Normally, that is fine, but today I had a deadline.
The weather was beautiful for our bioblitz, which was so much appreciated, as there are snowflake icons in our weather forecast in a few days' time. It still definitely feels like fall, though, and golden leaves were constantly falling to the ground, making it a challenge to see any fungi. Many of the mushrooms we saw today have started to rapidly decline, but others proved to be of interest. One of my favourites was a mushroom that had a number of water droplets on its cap. I could be wrong, but I suspect that these were guttation droplets, Usually, I see these on Red-belted polypores growing on tree trunks, so it was interesting to see these on the cap of a smallish mushroom.
We were warmly welcomed by the landowners, Michael and Marie-Claude Singleton. Marie-Claude accompanied us on the walk, which was great. Their beautiful property is a mix of mowed lawn (that certain mushrooms love), grassland and forest. They have a beautiful pond, too, edged with very healthy cattails and other water plants.
Thank you so much, Michael and Marie-Claude, for inviting us to come and see what is growing on your land. The coffee, too, was just what was needed after time spent outdoors.
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