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Beetle on Fringed Grass-of-Parnassus
Coat of many colours
Along the Bow River in fall
Two European Skippers
Pretty in pink
Unidentified plant at Cameron Lake, Waterton
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Ready to unfurl
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CL Ranches, Alberta
Peace in the Jumpingpound area
The edge of a Lily pad
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European Skipper on Timothy Grass
Black-crowned Night Heron juvenile
Flat Topped Coral / Clavariadelphus truncatus
Fence line in the fall
Longhorn Beetle / Pseudogaurotina cressoni
Tundra Swans
Always breathtakingly beautiful
Hungry little Muskrat
Mountain Ash berries
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White-breasted Nuthatch
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European Skipper on Fleabane
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Beauty at the centre
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Ralph Klein Park
Golden-breasted Starling / Lamprotornis regius
Jamaican Poinsettia / Euphorbia punicea
Rare Hooded Warbler / Setophaga citrina
Hooded Merganser males
A gorgeous splash of colour
American Golden-plover juvenile
Black-crowned Night Heron juvenile / Nycticorax ny…
Umbulate Hawkweed
Fungi family
Thank you for the pose
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I really didn't feel like finding photos or editing them last night, but noticed this one that was ready to post. I have so many Mountain Bluebird photos on my computer, so try to slip one in every once in a while : )
That day, 12 June 2013, this pair of Bluebirds, seen SW of the city, let me take many photos of them, with and without food collected for their babies. Not sure if this female has a small spider in her bill. I found it fascinating to see the different kinds of insects that they caught, and each time they returned with something new, they would perch on the barbed-wire fence near the nesting box and give me a few wonderful poses.
In Bluebirds, the blue colour is produced by the structure of the feather - there is no blue pigment. "Tiny air pockets in the barbs of feathers can scatter incoming light, resulting in a specific, non-iridescent color. Blue colors in feathers are almost always produced in this manner. Examples include the blue feathers of Bluebirds, Indigo Buntings, Blue Jay's and Steller's Jays."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mountain_Bluebird/id
www.jstor.org/discover/pgs/index?id=10.2307/4077277&i...
That day, 12 June 2013, this pair of Bluebirds, seen SW of the city, let me take many photos of them, with and without food collected for their babies. Not sure if this female has a small spider in her bill. I found it fascinating to see the different kinds of insects that they caught, and each time they returned with something new, they would perch on the barbed-wire fence near the nesting box and give me a few wonderful poses.
In Bluebirds, the blue colour is produced by the structure of the feather - there is no blue pigment. "Tiny air pockets in the barbs of feathers can scatter incoming light, resulting in a specific, non-iridescent color. Blue colors in feathers are almost always produced in this manner. Examples include the blue feathers of Bluebirds, Indigo Buntings, Blue Jay's and Steller's Jays."
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mountain_Bluebird/id
www.jstor.org/discover/pgs/index?id=10.2307/4077277&i...
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