Yesterday's delight
Tiny trio
Winged beauty
Little church with personality
Downy Woodpecker
Three-banded Ladybug
Spruce Sawyer
Chipping Sparrow
Wood Frog
Delicate Harebells
How to start the day well
Crab Spider on Richardson's Geranium
Hiding in the grass
Blue fungus : )
Woundwort / Stachys pilosus
Hiding
Drummond's Thistle
Tussock Moth caterpillar sp.
Spruce Grouse in all her finery
A look that needs to be shared : )
Little beauty
Swainson's Hawk
First day of adventure
If I just close my eyes, maybe she'll go away
Hidden treasure
I think I can ... I think I can ...
Patiently watching
Thankful for archives
Love those legs
Gotta love those owls
Puffballs
Time for a snack
A quick, backwards glance
Barn beauty
Now, the big adventure begins
Red barn in winter
Thanks for the pose
Balance is a fine art
Bundle of fluff
Love those ears
Indian Paintbrush
Good friends
A Swallowtail's tails
Some like wood, others like metal
Water Valley Church
Layers of blue
Can't resist a barn mailbox
Great Gray Owl in early morning light
Cormorants and their reflections
Night-flowering Catchfly / Silene noctiflora
Time for nest building
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Sun halo
Before they go to seed
One of three
Sunlit moss
Nearing its end
Red-blue Checkered Beetle on Yarrow
Western Toad / Boreal Toad / Bufo boreas
Swallowtail
Virginia Ctenucha / Ctenucha virginica
Zakyra
Happy day! And Happy 4th July to all Americans, e…
Horsetail
A breathtaking encounter
Mighty Moose
Driving the Wildcat Hills
Great Gray Owl in a snowy setting
In the other direction ....
Glorious light
Before "winter" returned
Ghost Lake
Cheer up!
White, blues and browns of winter
Learning the fine art of balance
Concentration
Looks can be deceptive
Gyrfalcon - what a treat!
On a cold and windy day
Camouflage
Great Gray Owl in the early morning light
Searching for grit
Mine!
Phantom of the North
Before the plunge
Drummond's Thistle / Cirsium drummondii
Hidden amongst the branches
Did I really climb that high?
Alone
Funny look? I'll give you funny look!
: )
Impressive old barn
Little cabin in the woods
A fancy fungus
Time to feed a hungry youngster
A sad ending, I suspect
Look what I unearthed : )
Chunky fungi
Tiny trio
Beauty on a rotting log
Portrait of a fine bird
Common Gaillardia
A white Red Clover / Trifolium pratense
Lepturobosca chrysocoma (Cosmosalia chrysocoma) Be…
Police Car Moth / Gnophaela vermiculata
I don't have a name yet, other than "beautiful"
Those early days
Not all flies are dull : )
White Camas / Anticlea elegans, formerly Zigadenus…
Taken from a canoe : )
Tranquility
Took my breath away
The highlight of yesterday
Great Gray Ghost
Blue
Impressive, spectacular, stunning, amazing .... bi…
Eye contact with the wise old owl
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker at work
Delicate bokeh
A cooperative youngster
"Milk - it does a body good"
Wonder what it's thinking
Predator and prey
Fun on a very windy day
Watching and waiting
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This beautiful Great Gray Owl was a little different from most of the Great Grays that I see. Somehow, its eyes didn't seem as vibrantly yellow - no idea if this could be an age thing. I wondered if it might be one of last year's young ones, also because it didn't seem quite as "relaxed" as Great Grays tend to be. It seemed to be a little more curious, perhaps. I had spent a long time trying to spot one of these magnificent birds of prey on 5 May 2013, and had just given up, trying not to feel too disappointed (yeah, right!) at seeing nothing but a Raven and a Killdeer on my long drive. Two minutes later, I rounded a bend in the road and caught sight of this owl perched on a fence post way ahead of me. Amazing how the sight of one of the large owls changes ones emotions in a split second : ) It stayed perched there for quite a while, at one point getting into this pose, which made my heart miss a beat. There's just something about when an owl is looking right at you and does this - maybe it's the size of those very powerful talons, lol? It often means that the owl is about to fly, but this time it just straightened itself up. It eventually flew over to my side of the road and moved to a couple of trees. Thank you, Owl, for making my day!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Grey_Owl
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Gray_Owl/id
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Grey_Owl
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Gray_Owl/id
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