Nearing its end
Purple Iris
Evening Grosbeak male
Moth and lichen
Young Richardson's Ground Squirrel
Impressive view at the Whaleback
Arrowleaf Balsamroot with Crab Spider
At the start of our climb
Western Tent caterpillars - a tight community
Black-billed Magpie
Sunflower beauty
Ruby-throated Hummingbird
House Wren
Before and after the petals fall
Franklins and the farmer
Eastern Kingbird
Small Blue sp.
Bleeding hearts
Lichen from the Whaleback hills
A touch of England
Red-winged Blackbird female
Western Tent Caterpillar - one of many
Convergent Ladybug / Hippodamia convergens
Delicate blossom
Cemetery wildlife
American Goldfinch
Sunlit moss
American Avocet
One of three
Before they go to seed
Sun halo
Glorious splash of colour
Arrow-leaved Coltsfoot / Petasites sagittatus
Female Red-winged Blackbird / Agelaius phoeniceus
Evening Grosbeaks / Coccothraustes vespertinus
The joy of Dandelions
Tree Swallow on road sign
My favourite view in Bow Valley Provincial Park
Morel mushroom in its natural setting
My best bird photo on Thursday : )
First Morel mushroom of the year (for me)
Cooper's Hawk
Bird's-eye primrose / Primula mistassinica
A turn of the head
A flower for Mother's Day
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Anyone else feeling totally worn out from trying to make everything work on the new Flickr set-up??? There are still many things that just will not work and I am spending so much more time here than I should be (words no doubt echoed by many people)! If you only post a photo with no description, tags, groups, albums, etc., it probably works OK, but nearly everything I try to do finds a problem. Yesterday, I learned that only a few photos can be seen in any album, instead of the full number - not good! Not sure, but I think this has now been fixed. You might want to just check your albums.
I wish this photo of a Common Grackle had been much sharper, but the light wasn't good where it was. Decided to post it anyway, as the colours of the iridescent feathers are so beautiful.
Yesterday, 27 May 2015, I had a volunteer shift and afterwards, as the sun was shining, I called in at the Reader Rock Garden. There is rain in the forecast for most of the next 12 days, which will drive me crazy, so I thought I'd better make the most of the blue sky while I could. Alberta is bone dry everywhere, with wildfires especially further north. Actually, one was burning near Water Valley the day after my daughter and I were there. So, much as I really dislike the rain, we desperately need it.
From the Garden, I drove through the adjoining Union Cemetery and then another nearby cemetery, and then called in at a wetland in SW Calgary, where I found this Grackle. Normally, I just don't see Grackles, so I'm always happy when I do see one.
"Common Grackles are blackbirds that look like they've been slightly stretched. They're taller and longer tailed than a typical blackbird, with a longer, more tapered bill and glossy-iridescent bodies. Grackles walk around lawns and fields on their long legs or gather in noisy groups high in trees, typically evergreens. They eat many crops (notably corn) and nearly anything else as well, including garbage. In flight their long tails trail behind them, sometimes folded down the middle into a shallow V shape." From AllABoutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Grackle/id
animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birding/common-gra...
I wish this photo of a Common Grackle had been much sharper, but the light wasn't good where it was. Decided to post it anyway, as the colours of the iridescent feathers are so beautiful.
Yesterday, 27 May 2015, I had a volunteer shift and afterwards, as the sun was shining, I called in at the Reader Rock Garden. There is rain in the forecast for most of the next 12 days, which will drive me crazy, so I thought I'd better make the most of the blue sky while I could. Alberta is bone dry everywhere, with wildfires especially further north. Actually, one was burning near Water Valley the day after my daughter and I were there. So, much as I really dislike the rain, we desperately need it.
From the Garden, I drove through the adjoining Union Cemetery and then another nearby cemetery, and then called in at a wetland in SW Calgary, where I found this Grackle. Normally, I just don't see Grackles, so I'm always happy when I do see one.
"Common Grackles are blackbirds that look like they've been slightly stretched. They're taller and longer tailed than a typical blackbird, with a longer, more tapered bill and glossy-iridescent bodies. Grackles walk around lawns and fields on their long legs or gather in noisy groups high in trees, typically evergreens. They eat many crops (notably corn) and nearly anything else as well, including garbage. In flight their long tails trail behind them, sometimes folded down the middle into a shallow V shape." From AllABoutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Grackle/id
animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birding/common-gra...
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