Christmas colours in July
Colour for a snowy morning
A beautiful old Ford
A clash of colour
New roof and a fresh coat of paint
Old-aged matching colours
With a view of the mountains and the prairies
The rule of red
Remnant of the old days
Pine Grosbeak / Pinicola enucleator
Pine Grosbeaks adding colour to our winter
So pretty against the snow
A fine old barn
A splash of much-needed red
Little red barn on the prairie
Christmas remnants
A new find on a bitterly cold day
Fenced in
Painted Tongue / Salpiglosis
Modern charm
Pine Grosbeak / Pinicola enucleator
Home of the Snowshoe Hare
The best colour to see in winter
Time for an old barn again
When the clouds roll in
Male beauty
Barn-shaped mailbox
A fine old barn
Poppy art
Just a splash of colour
The Famous Five from a distance
Farmyard scene on the prairie
Tropical - cultivar of Tillandsia ionantha?
Little red barn with green roof
Balsam Poplar male catkins
Balsam Poplar male catkins
Balsam Poplar catkins
Gaillardia on red
And then there were only THREE!
Bright and cheery in its old age
Old cabin on Gottlob Schmidt's (Schmitty's) land
Rural decay
Little red cabin
Strawberries and cream fungus / Hydnellum peckii
Strawberries and Cream fungus / Hydnellum peckii
Autumn berries
Hiding between the rocks
Ice crystals on a mountain top
An endless feast for a Ladybug
Red beauty on a scree slope
Fall colour
A welcome splash of red
TV's "Heartland" series location
Red's the best in winter
A splash of colour on a snowy day
Snow turns something ordinary into beautiful
Mailbox or birdhouse?
Modern - but I like it
The peace of a prairie farm - my main photo today
The old-fashioned way
The Sickener / Russula emetica?
Strawberries and cream fungus / Hydnellum peckii
Bananaquit / Coereba flaveola, Tobago
A favourite old barn
White-winged Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill
White-winged Crossbill / Loxia leucoptera
Moving into fall
Cone paradise
Mountain Ash berries
CL Ranches, Alberta
Jamaican Poinsettia / Euphorbia punicea
All decked out
Coffee Bean tree / Coffea
Indian Clock Vine / Thunbergia mysorensis
One of these things is not like the others
A splash of red
One of my favourite barns
European Mountain Ash / Sorbus aucuparia
A change of subject
It's beginning to look a lot like autumn
Strawberry Blite / Chenopodium capitatum
Red Baneberry / Actaea rubra, red berries
Too hard to resist
Unusual purple Striped coralroot / Corallorhiza st…
Canoes at Cameron Lake, Waterton
Utah Honeysuckle / Lonicera utahensis
Diabolo Ninebark
Summer colour
Red Rock Canyon, Waterton Lakes National Park
Red Rock Canyon, Waterton Lakes National Park
Clouds and Dandelions
Spiny Rose Gall
A touch of England
The Famous Five
A splash of red
One of my favourite barns
Little red barn on Mother's Day
A welcome splash of red
Red wagon by Bow Valley Ranch
Balsam or Hybrid Poplar catkins
Red barn in a beautiful setting
Simple but bright
Red barn in a field of gold
There once was an owl
A red prairie barn
The Famous Five again
No two are the same
A barn to be proud of
Guarding his barn
Red barn on a sunny day
A fine rural relic
A prairie view
Old barn on the prairie
Made to feel welcome
View from a barn doorway
Red
Weathered
Frosted Rose hips
Makes me think of Santa
Inukshuk Santa
A beautiful hoar frost day
A memory of good old England
Can't resist a barn mailbox
Summer memories
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White-winged Crossbill / Loxia leucoptera
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It almost looks like this male White-winged Crossbill has a red feather sticking out from the top of its head, but it's just a bit of disgarded husk from one of the many seeds it had been eating from the cones. You can really see the crossed tips of its beak in this photo.
On 16 November 2015, it would have been my older daughter’s birthday. Feeling that I needed to get out for a while, I met up with a group of friends for a three-hour walk in Weaselhead. It had snowed a bit overnight and, though it was mostly sunny, the temperature was around 1°C. This meant winter jacket and winter boots complete with ice-grabbers as the paths were very icy and slippery. 27 species of bird were seen. Two or three people saw what they reckoned was an owl (Great Horned) in flight from the forest. A Snow-shoe Hare in its white, winter coat was just about visible, hiding in a tangle of bushes.
We had quite good views of several White-winged Crossbills. These are such colourful birds - at least the males are. The females are a greenish yellow, but still beautiful. Their bills are crossed, to enable them to get the seeds out of the cones. They tend to land high up in tall trees, hence a zoomed and cropped image.
“A medium-sized finch of the boreal forest, the White-winged Crossbill is adapted for extracting seeds from the cones of coniferous trees. It moves large distances between years tracking the cone crop from place to place.” From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/white-winged_crossbill/id
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-barred_Crossbill
1.Canada Goose-200+
2.Swan sp.,-7
3.Mallard-4
4.Common Goldeneye-1 f.
5.Northern Goshawk-1
6.Rough-legged Hawk-1
7.Killdeer-1
8.Ring-billed Gull?-1
9.Great Horned Owl-1
10.Downy Woodpecker-4+
11.Hairy Woodpecker-1
12.Northern Flicker-2
13.Blue Jay-4+
14.Black-billed Magpie-20
15.Common Raven-2+
16.Black-capped Chickadee-50+
17.Boreal Chickadee-4
18.Red-breasted Chickadee-1
19.White-breasted Nuthatch-1
20.Bohemian Waxwing-100+
21.Dark-eyed Junco-1+
22.Pine Grosbeak-10+
23.House Finch-1
24.Red Crossbill-1 f.
25.White-winged Crossbill-75+
26.Common Redpoll-30+
27.House Sparrow-6
On 16 November 2015, it would have been my older daughter’s birthday. Feeling that I needed to get out for a while, I met up with a group of friends for a three-hour walk in Weaselhead. It had snowed a bit overnight and, though it was mostly sunny, the temperature was around 1°C. This meant winter jacket and winter boots complete with ice-grabbers as the paths were very icy and slippery. 27 species of bird were seen. Two or three people saw what they reckoned was an owl (Great Horned) in flight from the forest. A Snow-shoe Hare in its white, winter coat was just about visible, hiding in a tangle of bushes.
We had quite good views of several White-winged Crossbills. These are such colourful birds - at least the males are. The females are a greenish yellow, but still beautiful. Their bills are crossed, to enable them to get the seeds out of the cones. They tend to land high up in tall trees, hence a zoomed and cropped image.
“A medium-sized finch of the boreal forest, the White-winged Crossbill is adapted for extracting seeds from the cones of coniferous trees. It moves large distances between years tracking the cone crop from place to place.” From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/white-winged_crossbill/id
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-barred_Crossbill
1.Canada Goose-200+
2.Swan sp.,-7
3.Mallard-4
4.Common Goldeneye-1 f.
5.Northern Goshawk-1
6.Rough-legged Hawk-1
7.Killdeer-1
8.Ring-billed Gull?-1
9.Great Horned Owl-1
10.Downy Woodpecker-4+
11.Hairy Woodpecker-1
12.Northern Flicker-2
13.Blue Jay-4+
14.Black-billed Magpie-20
15.Common Raven-2+
16.Black-capped Chickadee-50+
17.Boreal Chickadee-4
18.Red-breasted Chickadee-1
19.White-breasted Nuthatch-1
20.Bohemian Waxwing-100+
21.Dark-eyed Junco-1+
22.Pine Grosbeak-10+
23.House Finch-1
24.Red Crossbill-1 f.
25.White-winged Crossbill-75+
26.Common Redpoll-30+
27.House Sparrow-6
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