A distant Bobolink
Chilean Flamingo
Brown-headed Cowbird / Molothrus ater
Iris at Olds College Botanical Gardens and Wetland…
My first Bald Eagle on a fence post
Red River Hog / Potamochoerus porcus
It's the Bobolink again
Just a little stretch
Forest refractions on a wet Dandelion : )
Wild Rose in the rain
Bobolink male / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
A forest find
A second's rest, together
Great Gray Owl in late-morning sun
False Dandelion / Hypochaeris radicata
Hike on Erik Butters' beautiful land
I like the post as much as the bird
Yellow Warbler male
Yellow lady's-slipper
One of my favourite views
Raindrop refractions
Elephant's head / Pedicularis groenlandica
Spotted Sandpiper
Beautiful wings of a female Mountain Bluebird
Ornamental Spurge / Euphorbia polychroma (Cushion…
Red-winged Blackbird female with bokeh
A closer view - male Bobolink
Clay-colored Sparrow / Spizella pallida
Female Bobolink / Dolichonyx oryzivorus
Such an elegant bird
Sleeping down at the pond
Grasshopper Sparrow / Ammodramus savannarum - OR i…
Couldn't have chosen a better perch myself : )
Red-edged petals
Such good parents
There WAS a fence between us
Spotted Coralroot / Corallorhiza maculata
Meadow Creek area, Benchlands
Everyday beauty
Why this bird is called a Grosbeak
Northern Shoveler pair
I think he caught a beautiful Tiger Moth : )
Yesterday's treat - a Bobolink
Needed a change of colour
Eastern Kingbird
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Tattered and torn - and still beautiful


I think this photo must be showing as my main photo (i.e. very last photo posted). Apparently, my actual main photo isn't showing up for my Contacts on their Contacts page. I have suspected that the same old problem has been going on the last few days. Such a tiny thing in the 'big picture' of life, but it annoys me so much when Flickr messes this up.
Though this Echinacea flower had no visiting bees on it when I took the photograph, I will add the information that I posted on another photo I took on the same visit to the Reader Rock Garden on 26 August 2015. Bees are in trouble and need our help.
Apparently, there are an estimated 300+ native bee species in Alberta and 800+ species in Canada. I had no idea!
"Bees are the world's most important plant pollinators. Several species of bees have been imported to Alberta to pollinate crops and to produce honey. These and the native wild bees (like the bumblebee) play an extremely important role in nature. Without them, many fruits and seeds would not be produced."
esrd.alberta.ca/fish-wildlife/wild-species/invertebrates/...
"The systemic nature of the problem makes it complex, but not impenetrable. Scientists know that bees are dying from a variety of factors—pesticides, drought, habitat destruction, nutrition deficit, air pollution, global warming and more. Many of these causes are interrelated. The bottom line is that we know humans are largely responsible for the two most prominent causes: pesticides and habitat loss." From Greenpeace.
www.greenpeace.org/usa/sustainable-agriculture/save-the-b...
"How many different species of wild bees would you guess we have here in Alberta? How many can you name? Most people drastically underestimate the diversity of bees that call this province home and think of them only as either bumblebees or honeybees. The reality is much richer, with a surprising estimate of over 300 different kinds of bees in Alberta. All of them provide an essential ecosystem service by pollinating crops, gardens, and wildflowers. For example, pollination increases the yield of canola, an important crop grown in Alberta, by 10-30% (Morandin and Wilson, 2005).
Because of their important role as crop pollinators, bees are of interest to the ABMI’s (Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute) Ecosystem Services Assessment Project. This project is mapping ecosystem services, which are the benefits provided by natural systems that contribute to our health and well-being. In order to map pollination services, the project requires information on the abundance and diversity of bees in Alberta, and where they’re living—information that is lacking for many areas of the province.
To address this information gap, the project has partnered with Dr. Jessamyn Manson at the University of Alberta to conduct two years of wild bee surveys across Alberta’s agricultural zone. These surveys are occurring in commercial canola fields all the way from the US border to sites near Grande Prairie." From an article on the ABMI's blog, written on 4 February 2015. The bee team has conducted a second field season in 2015 and continuing to process the 2014 samples.
blog.abmi.ca/2015/02/04/the-latest-buzz-on-albertas-wild-...
www.amazon.com/The-Beekeepers-Lament-Billion-America/dp/0...
Though this Echinacea flower had no visiting bees on it when I took the photograph, I will add the information that I posted on another photo I took on the same visit to the Reader Rock Garden on 26 August 2015. Bees are in trouble and need our help.
Apparently, there are an estimated 300+ native bee species in Alberta and 800+ species in Canada. I had no idea!
"Bees are the world's most important plant pollinators. Several species of bees have been imported to Alberta to pollinate crops and to produce honey. These and the native wild bees (like the bumblebee) play an extremely important role in nature. Without them, many fruits and seeds would not be produced."
esrd.alberta.ca/fish-wildlife/wild-species/invertebrates/...
"The systemic nature of the problem makes it complex, but not impenetrable. Scientists know that bees are dying from a variety of factors—pesticides, drought, habitat destruction, nutrition deficit, air pollution, global warming and more. Many of these causes are interrelated. The bottom line is that we know humans are largely responsible for the two most prominent causes: pesticides and habitat loss." From Greenpeace.
www.greenpeace.org/usa/sustainable-agriculture/save-the-b...
"How many different species of wild bees would you guess we have here in Alberta? How many can you name? Most people drastically underestimate the diversity of bees that call this province home and think of them only as either bumblebees or honeybees. The reality is much richer, with a surprising estimate of over 300 different kinds of bees in Alberta. All of them provide an essential ecosystem service by pollinating crops, gardens, and wildflowers. For example, pollination increases the yield of canola, an important crop grown in Alberta, by 10-30% (Morandin and Wilson, 2005).
Because of their important role as crop pollinators, bees are of interest to the ABMI’s (Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute) Ecosystem Services Assessment Project. This project is mapping ecosystem services, which are the benefits provided by natural systems that contribute to our health and well-being. In order to map pollination services, the project requires information on the abundance and diversity of bees in Alberta, and where they’re living—information that is lacking for many areas of the province.
To address this information gap, the project has partnered with Dr. Jessamyn Manson at the University of Alberta to conduct two years of wild bee surveys across Alberta’s agricultural zone. These surveys are occurring in commercial canola fields all the way from the US border to sites near Grande Prairie." From an article on the ABMI's blog, written on 4 February 2015. The bee team has conducted a second field season in 2015 and continuing to process the 2014 samples.
blog.abmi.ca/2015/02/04/the-latest-buzz-on-albertas-wild-...
www.amazon.com/The-Beekeepers-Lament-Billion-America/dp/0...
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