Where Mountains and Foothills meet

A friend had very generously invited me to go along with him today, exploring the area south of the city, in the Porcupine Hills, Foothills and Nanton area. The weather was incredible and the scenery breath-taking! Everything from flat grassland, to rolling hills and the Foothills, to the eastern edge of the mountains. You can see where the Foothills meet the mountains in this photo. This particular road was very interesting. And "they" said this was going to be the most severe winter in 15 years! As you can see in this photo, it doesn't look like winter at all in the rolling hills. (Snow next week?).

We saw:

2 Golden Eagles
50 Wild Turkeys, approx.
1 Northern Shrike
4 American Dippers
Eurasian Collared Doves, several
Snow Buntings, 1 flock
1 Great Horned Owl
1 Rough-legged Hawk
2 Gray Jays
Rock Doves (Pigeons)
Common Raven, many
Chickadees
Downy Woodpecker
1 White-breasted Nuthatch
Magpies, plenty
House Sparrows

Mule Deer
White-tailed Deer
1 Moose
1 Coyote