Eared Grebe & baby
House Sparrow feeding babies in cavity
Northern Flicker babies in cavity
American Goldfinch male / Spinus tristis
Red-winged Blackbird displaying
A new find
Wilson's Snipe
Red-winged Blackbird male / Agelaius phoeniceus
Old, red barn
Golden Eagle!
Swainson's Hawk, immature
The yellow has bloomed!
Great Horned Owl - rehab
Colour for an overcast day
Old and rusty tractor
A great use for old teapots
The far side of the river valley
Bright and beautiful
Bee on Tall Larkspur / Delphinium exaltatum
Fungus guttation droplets
Purple/Water Avens / Geum rivale
White Admiral
False Solomon's Seal
White Admiral
Fungi on a tree stump
Wild Licorice?
Sainfoin / Onobrychis
American White Pelicans on the Bow River
Sainfoin / Onobrychis
American White Pelicans on the Bow River
Mountain Death Camas / Zigadenus elegans
Osprey with a fish
Osprey with a fish
Yellow Mountain-avens / Dryas drummondii
Afternoon trip to the mountains
Bethlehem Lutheran Church of Dalum
Badland beauty
One of my favourite old barns
Little country church, Alberta
The remaining three
One of my favourite old barns
Long ago, someone's pride and joy
Weathered by the passing years
Front door of the little prairie church
Berries in the sunshine
Yellow Prairie Coneflower / Mexican Hat
Artichoke
Splash of colour
Osprey
Campion / Silene sp.
Osprey
Campion
American Goldfinch collecting Thistle seeds
Wild Sunflower sp.
American Goldfinch collecting Thistle seeds
Colour in the garden
Edible King Oyster mushrooms, Akesi Farms
Rural Alberta
Pholiota destruens fungus on cut end of a log
Coral fungus sp.
Fungus
Pholiota terrestris growing in soil
Cystoderma cinnabarina
Coot baby following in Mom's footsteps
Coot juvenile
Barn Swallow with feather for its nest
Storm clouds in the direction of home
Eared Grebe with baby
Storm clouds moving in
Barn Swallow / Hirundo rustica
Eared Grebe / Podiceps nigricollis
Pika - tiny fluffball
Yellow Warbler with food for his babies
Osprey with fish
Northern Rough-winged Swallow / Stelgidopteryx ser…
Osprey with fish
Yellow Warbler female
Yellow Warbler male collecting insects
Northern Rough-winged Swallow / Stelgidopteryx ser…
Osprey with fish
Northern Rough-winged Swallow / Stelgidopteryx ser…
Osprey with fish
Northern Rough-winged Swallow / Stelgidopteryx ser…
Northern Rough-winged Swallow / Stelgidopteryx ser…
Bobolink / Dolichonyx oryzivorus, singing
Wilson's Snipe, having a stretch
Wilson's Snipe
Bobolink male / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Mountain Bluebird with Red-winged Grasshopper
Bobolink male / Dolichonyx oryzivorus, on a windy…
Mountain Bluebird with food for his babies
Mountain Bluebird
Bobolink male / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Mountain Bluebird male
Treasures of the Ghost River forest - a little bi…
Fungi in the Ghost River forest
Upturned Three-flowered Avens / Geum triflorum
Day 9, Black-bellied Whistling Duck, Resaca de la…
Day 9, Couch's Kingbird / Tyrannus couchii, Resaca…
Day 9, Great Crested Flycatcher / Myiarchus crinit…
Day 9, Couch's Kingbird, Resaca de la Palma SP, Te…
Cedar Waxwing / Bombycilla cedrorum
Mallard family swimming on the river
Osprey / Pandion haliaetus
Yellow Warbler / Setophaga petechia
Brown-headed Cowbird / Molothrus ater
Osprey
Cedar Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing
Osprey
Cedar Waxwing
Osprey pair harassed by Red-winged Blackbird
Wilson's Snipe / Gallinago delicata
Eastern Kingbird / Tyrannus tyrannus
Eastern Kingbird
Cedar Waxwing / Bombycilla cedrorum
Day 8, bird blind, Santa Ana National Wildlife Ref…
Red-winged Blackbird male / Agelaius phoeniceus
Eastern Kingbird / Tyrannus tyrannus
Mountain Bluebird female / Sialia currucoides
Eastern Kingbird / Tyrannus tyrannus
Wilson's Snipe / Gallinago delicata
Black Tern / Chlidonias niger
Mountain Bluebird male / Sialia currucoides
American Goldfinch female / Spinus tristis
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Eared Grebe baby
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Our weather forecast for today, 6 July 2019, from the Weather Network:
"A multi-day severe storm threat looms for the Prairies. This weekend is ripe with storm risk, with Saturday's thunderstorms set to fire for the afternoon and evening, along with some tornado chance on the table for southern Alberta -- something visitors to the Calgary Stampede should keep an eye on."
This morning, 6 July 2019, I am posting 7 more photos taken three days ago, on a drive south to Frank Lake. Yet again, when I checked the weather forecast, it said continuing rain for day after day after day. However, the sun was shining when I decided to drive south. The clouds were sufficiently photogenic for me to change my plans and, instead of calling in at the Saskatoon Farm, I drove straight to the Lake.
The previous time I was at Frank Lake, there was one Coot, two Canada Geese, and a Red-winged and a Yellow-headed Blackbird. Two days ago, it was so much better! The Barn Swallows were there, having built their nest a few feet away from their previous nest site. The Eared Grebes had their tiny, adorable babies, sometimes riding on their back, other times swimming separately. Same thing with the Coots - some had very young babies; others had somewhat older youngsters. One Coot adult and baby were walking in thick mud, searching for food. They both looked such a mess, as if they had rolled in the mud. A pair of Western Grebes could be seen far in the distance.
The sky began to change - the white clouds were taken over by rather menacing black ones and it became windy and the rain started. I really didn't want to drive back home on the very busy highway in pouring rain, but after waiting and hoping for it to end, I eventually had no choice but to risk it. As it turned out, there was hardly any traffic going north.
It has been raining on and off for something like three weeks now, and everyone is tired of the rain. The famous 9-day Calgary Stampede runs from 5-14 July this year and rain during Stampede makes things so unpleasant! Judging by my Stampede photos posted on Flickr, I haven't been since 2013, when I went with my daughter - surely it hasn't been that long? I know I haven't been the last few years, as it was feeling just too much to deal with. Happy to be away from the huge masses of people and the sickening smell of grease, ha, ha! Of course, not going means not getting any mini-donuts, too. However, I was invited to a friend's Stampede BBQ yesterday evening - so much delicious food in such a beautiful garden. Thank you so much for inviting me, Diane!! Happy Stampeding, everyone! May the sun shine ....
"A multi-day severe storm threat looms for the Prairies. This weekend is ripe with storm risk, with Saturday's thunderstorms set to fire for the afternoon and evening, along with some tornado chance on the table for southern Alberta -- something visitors to the Calgary Stampede should keep an eye on."
This morning, 6 July 2019, I am posting 7 more photos taken three days ago, on a drive south to Frank Lake. Yet again, when I checked the weather forecast, it said continuing rain for day after day after day. However, the sun was shining when I decided to drive south. The clouds were sufficiently photogenic for me to change my plans and, instead of calling in at the Saskatoon Farm, I drove straight to the Lake.
The previous time I was at Frank Lake, there was one Coot, two Canada Geese, and a Red-winged and a Yellow-headed Blackbird. Two days ago, it was so much better! The Barn Swallows were there, having built their nest a few feet away from their previous nest site. The Eared Grebes had their tiny, adorable babies, sometimes riding on their back, other times swimming separately. Same thing with the Coots - some had very young babies; others had somewhat older youngsters. One Coot adult and baby were walking in thick mud, searching for food. They both looked such a mess, as if they had rolled in the mud. A pair of Western Grebes could be seen far in the distance.
The sky began to change - the white clouds were taken over by rather menacing black ones and it became windy and the rain started. I really didn't want to drive back home on the very busy highway in pouring rain, but after waiting and hoping for it to end, I eventually had no choice but to risk it. As it turned out, there was hardly any traffic going north.
It has been raining on and off for something like three weeks now, and everyone is tired of the rain. The famous 9-day Calgary Stampede runs from 5-14 July this year and rain during Stampede makes things so unpleasant! Judging by my Stampede photos posted on Flickr, I haven't been since 2013, when I went with my daughter - surely it hasn't been that long? I know I haven't been the last few years, as it was feeling just too much to deal with. Happy to be away from the huge masses of people and the sickening smell of grease, ha, ha! Of course, not going means not getting any mini-donuts, too. However, I was invited to a friend's Stampede BBQ yesterday evening - so much delicious food in such a beautiful garden. Thank you so much for inviting me, Diane!! Happy Stampeding, everyone! May the sun shine ....
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