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Yesterday's treat - a Great Gray Owl
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Wild Blue Columbine / Aquilegia brevistyla
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Fort Macleod grain elevator, Alberta
Tall Lungwort / Mertensia paniculata
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Little church in the valley
McDougall Memorial United Church
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Pine Grosbeak enjoying the sun
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Great Gray Owl with its catch
A snack for his babies
McDougall Memorial United Church
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Little forest muncher
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Snowy Owl - just close enough
A most challenging bird
Davisburg Community Church, Alberta
Northern Pygmy-owl, one year ago
Moose cow looking for salt
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Barn-shaped mailbox
Snow Bunting / Plectrophenax nivalis
Clark's Nutcracker
Downy Woodpecker
Glenmore Dam, Calgary, Alberta
When winter really was winter
Varied Thrush
Common Redpoll on the wire
Male beauty
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A week ago, on 22 February 2016, I went on a birding walk at the Bow Valley Ranch, Sikome & Hull's Wood areas in Fish Creek Park. This little Red Squirrel was welcome on this rather birdless day. We had split into two groups, and the list is a combined list from both. My group didn't see the Pheasant or Shrike (i.e the two best sightings!).
FFCPPSoc. Birding, FC Hq & Sikome, FCPP, Calgary, 0915-1200, Mon22Feb2016. Sunny, N. wind 15kph -2 to 6°C. Two groups;
1. Canada Goose- 500
2. Mallard-100
3. Common Goldeneye-30
4. Bufflehead-10
5. Ring-necked Pheasant-1 m
6. Bald Eagle-2 (1ad/1juv).
7. Great Horned Owl-2, pair nesting.
8. Downy Woodpecker-10
9. Hairy Woodpecker-1
10. Northern Flicker-15
11. Northern Shrike-1
12. Blue Jay-1+
13. Black-billed Magpie-6
14. Common Raven-7Black-capped Chickadee-25
15. Black-capped Chickadee-15
16. Red-breasted Nuthatch-3
17. White-breasted Nuthatch-5
18. European Starling-5
19. House Finch-2
20. White-winged Crossbill-8
21. Pine Siskin-4
22. House Sparrow-3
Eastern Gray Squirrel-3
After going home for lunch, I then called in at Fish Creek Park again, but at a different location of the park. I was really hoping to see the Varied Thrush again and hopefully get a few much better photos. I passed a couple that I recognized and asked them if they had seen the Thrush and they told me that, yes,it was there. Well, do you think I could find it, lol?! Of course not! Also had a most interesting chat with another couple down there, whom I had never met before - Mike and Cheryl. So nice to meet you both.
From Fish Creek Park, I finally went and washed my absolutely filthy car. A few months of driving through muddy slush in the city and on the gravel backroads out of the city, you couldn't tell what colour my vehicle was.
FFCPPSoc. Birding, FC Hq & Sikome, FCPP, Calgary, 0915-1200, Mon22Feb2016. Sunny, N. wind 15kph -2 to 6°C. Two groups;
1. Canada Goose- 500
2. Mallard-100
3. Common Goldeneye-30
4. Bufflehead-10
5. Ring-necked Pheasant-1 m
6. Bald Eagle-2 (1ad/1juv).
7. Great Horned Owl-2, pair nesting.
8. Downy Woodpecker-10
9. Hairy Woodpecker-1
10. Northern Flicker-15
11. Northern Shrike-1
12. Blue Jay-1+
13. Black-billed Magpie-6
14. Common Raven-7Black-capped Chickadee-25
15. Black-capped Chickadee-15
16. Red-breasted Nuthatch-3
17. White-breasted Nuthatch-5
18. European Starling-5
19. House Finch-2
20. White-winged Crossbill-8
21. Pine Siskin-4
22. House Sparrow-3
Eastern Gray Squirrel-3
After going home for lunch, I then called in at Fish Creek Park again, but at a different location of the park. I was really hoping to see the Varied Thrush again and hopefully get a few much better photos. I passed a couple that I recognized and asked them if they had seen the Thrush and they told me that, yes,it was there. Well, do you think I could find it, lol?! Of course not! Also had a most interesting chat with another couple down there, whom I had never met before - Mike and Cheryl. So nice to meet you both.
From Fish Creek Park, I finally went and washed my absolutely filthy car. A few months of driving through muddy slush in the city and on the gravel backroads out of the city, you couldn't tell what colour my vehicle was.
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