Busy little Muskrat
Common Tansy / Tanacetum vulgare
Emerald waters
Gathering at the feeder
Wood Nymph sp.
Mystery flower
The beauty of Pinedrops
An attractive little cluster
Young Brown-headed Cowbirds
Thimbleberry / Rubus parviflorus
Small and cute
Milk chocolate curls
Smoke + sun = orange
Red-tailed Hawk / Buteo jamaicensis
First the flower, then the bokeh, then the bee
Wood Frog
Yellowjacket
Pink crinkles
It's beginning to look a lot like autumn
You take what you can get
Heading into fall
Between the distant trees
Pinkish
Canyon Church Camp, Waterton Lakes National Park
Willowherb / Epilobium sp.
Look what I can do!
Decorating a tree
Strawberry Blite / Chenopodium capitatum
Yellow Scabious with bee and bokeh
Doing their best
Insect galls on Rose leaves
Keeping each other company
Bear claw marks on a tree trunk
Peony seedpods
Wing-flapping practice
Sainfoin / Onobrychis viciifolia Scop.
Common Hemp-nettle / Galeopsis tetrahit
Tiny visitor
Yellow Clematis / Clematis tangutica
On a day of heavy rain
Weeping in the forest
Mating Damselflies with bokeh
A breathtaking Lily
Skipper on Goldenrod
Main street, Heritage Park
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In a field of bokeh


Just waiting for news about my daughter, who has been in the hospital since early yesterday evening, complaining of a lot of lower abdominal pain. I got an e-mail from her dad late yesterday (he couldn't find my phone number), letting me know that she had been there for hours, but that there was still no news. Needless to say, I'm feeling sick to the stomach, having gone through everything with my older daughter, who died in the same hospital in January. Hoping so much that this is nothing serious. Got up early this morning, after a sleepless night of course, and e-mail news let me know that she has had X-Rays, CT Scan and was waiting for an Ultrasound. Apparently, she is still in severe pain, but at least they have started trying to find out what is wrong.
It is still pouring with rain this morning and there was an almighty crash of thunder that almost sounded as if it came from my backyard! After such a hot, hot summer, rain is so welcome, especially when it falls on a day that I have no trip planned : )
On 26 July 2015, 22 of us drove out to Marsland Basin, E of Calgary. Part of this beautiful wetland belongs to our friend, Lyn, and her partner - they have a house and yard that overlooks the wetland. This was the second time that I had visited the area, the first being on 28 June 2015. Each time, we have to sign a small guestbook. Also, everyone who can is asked to please submit a list of species seen to eBird. The birds on the water are very distant, so you need binoculars (which I don't have) and even better, a spotting scope. Really, they are too far away for photos, though I can get a distant shot with my point-and-shoot camera set at 48x zoom and then cropped.
Like last time, I took a long look over the lake and then wandered round Lyn's property, this time finding a mushroom or two, a beautiful moth, a few Thistles, their two donkeys, a House Wren, an Eastern Kingbird, a Mourning Dove, and a family of Western Kingbirds (that were just about impossible to see as they flitted in amongst the high branches).
The highlight of the visit for many of us was seeing a very, very distant family of American Badgers that were in a neighbour's field (so, private land), digging for prey (probably the nearby Richardson's Ground Squirrels). There are four family members, though some of us only saw three. I think I have only ever seen a Badger three times before in 37 years, the last one being on 11 June 2012, on one of Don Stiles' annual Mountain Bluebird outings.
The General Status of the American Badger in Alberta is Sensitive. More detailed Status is "Data Deficient" - not enough current information to determine its status.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_badger
A report from 2002:
esrd.alberta.ca/fish-wildlife/species-at-risk/species-at-...
After our visit to the Marsland Basin, friends Dorothy and Stephen drove two of us back to Calgary again, travelling the roads slowly so that we could see a number of perched Swainson's Hawks, and a Meadowlark with mouth full of insects to feed to her babies. Thanks so much, Stephen, for the safe ride there and back. As always, hugely appreciated!
For a list of the 53 species of bird that were seen at Marsland Basin, look under the Badger family photo.
flic.kr/p/wygV8B
It is still pouring with rain this morning and there was an almighty crash of thunder that almost sounded as if it came from my backyard! After such a hot, hot summer, rain is so welcome, especially when it falls on a day that I have no trip planned : )
On 26 July 2015, 22 of us drove out to Marsland Basin, E of Calgary. Part of this beautiful wetland belongs to our friend, Lyn, and her partner - they have a house and yard that overlooks the wetland. This was the second time that I had visited the area, the first being on 28 June 2015. Each time, we have to sign a small guestbook. Also, everyone who can is asked to please submit a list of species seen to eBird. The birds on the water are very distant, so you need binoculars (which I don't have) and even better, a spotting scope. Really, they are too far away for photos, though I can get a distant shot with my point-and-shoot camera set at 48x zoom and then cropped.
Like last time, I took a long look over the lake and then wandered round Lyn's property, this time finding a mushroom or two, a beautiful moth, a few Thistles, their two donkeys, a House Wren, an Eastern Kingbird, a Mourning Dove, and a family of Western Kingbirds (that were just about impossible to see as they flitted in amongst the high branches).
The highlight of the visit for many of us was seeing a very, very distant family of American Badgers that were in a neighbour's field (so, private land), digging for prey (probably the nearby Richardson's Ground Squirrels). There are four family members, though some of us only saw three. I think I have only ever seen a Badger three times before in 37 years, the last one being on 11 June 2012, on one of Don Stiles' annual Mountain Bluebird outings.
The General Status of the American Badger in Alberta is Sensitive. More detailed Status is "Data Deficient" - not enough current information to determine its status.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_badger
A report from 2002:
esrd.alberta.ca/fish-wildlife/species-at-risk/species-at-...
After our visit to the Marsland Basin, friends Dorothy and Stephen drove two of us back to Calgary again, travelling the roads slowly so that we could see a number of perched Swainson's Hawks, and a Meadowlark with mouth full of insects to feed to her babies. Thanks so much, Stephen, for the safe ride there and back. As always, hugely appreciated!
For a list of the 53 species of bird that were seen at Marsland Basin, look under the Badger family photo.
flic.kr/p/wygV8B
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