Birders, doing what they do best

The landscape is pretty flat in the area around Frank Lake, SE of Calgary, but I love it. Land and sky just seem to go on and on forever. This photo was taken on 27 April 2014, on a day that was spent with a group of friends, driving around the lake, checking to see what bird species we could find. It started off extremely foggy with a touch of hoarfrost. Perhaps not the ideal weather for seeing birds, but the fog did eventually clear and the sun came out. It turned out to be a beautiful day and most enjoyable, with a good number of bird species found - a total of 53 species. All the birds were extremely distant, apart from a couple of owl nests and a pair of Tree Swallows, so my photos are more or less limited to landscape, hoarfrost, etc., all of which I love.

Leader, Tony Timmons', list:

Common Loon 1
Pied-billed Grebe 1 Heard (I.D. Eric Tull)
Red-necked Grebe 2
Eared Grebe 25+
Western Grebe 6
Clark’s Grebe 1
D.C. Cormorant 1
Great Blue Heron 3
Black-crowned Night Heron 5
White-faced Ibis 10
Snow Geese 15
Ross’s Geese 3
Canada Goose
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal
Green-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Northern Pintail
Canvasback
Redhead
Lesser Scaup
Ring-necked Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser 12
Ruddy Duck
Northern Harrier 5
Swainson’s Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Ring-necked Pheasant 2
Killdeer
American Coot
Black-necked Stilt 10
American Avocet 80
Lesser Yellowlegs 8
Franklin’s Gull
Bonaparte’s Gull 20
California Gull
Mourning Dove 1
Great Horned Owl( 4 Nests)
Tree Swallow
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2
Red-winged Blackbird
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Robin,Starling,Pigeon,Magpie,Crow,Raven

Happy day! I've just found out that if you click on the row of three dots, then RIGHT click on Edit Date, you can open a photo in another tab or window and simply copy all the tags from there. When pasted in the tags of a new photo, they post perfectly. This was one of the things I really did not like about the new Flickr experience, until today, so that's one less thing to dislike.