Winter in the Nanton, Alberta, area
Northern Hawk Owl
Lying on a bed of hoarfrost
Goat's-beard with visitor
Snowy Owl along the fenceline
The old-fashioned way
With a little filtered help
Northern Hawk Owl
Winter textures
Colour from Ornamental Cabbages
It's those white birds again
The Sickener / Russula emetica?
The joy of winter roads
Winner with its prey
Old prairie barn
A highlight of a bird count
Yellow-bellied Marmot
Mountain Chickadee / Poecile gambeli
Decorating the base of a tree
Quietly watching, always alert
Typically Western
Seedhead wisps
Great Gray Owl from 2013
Red-winged Blackbird female or juvenile
Atop a utility pole
Summer colour
Meadow Vole for a tasty snack
Northern Hawk Owl
Non-wild horses in a wild landscape
Two of a family of three
Wolf's Milk Slime / Lycogala epidendrum
Northern Hawk Owl from 2016
Dark-eyed beauty
Closer view, but poor quality
Yesterday's glorious sky
Prairie Falcon perched on an old wind pump
Yesterday's treat
Female Mountain Bluebird with lunch for her babies
The beautiful mountains of Alberta
The size of a popcan
Sharp-tailed Grouse
The peace of a prairie farm - my main photo today
Better than nothing - this is NOT my main photo!
Unidentified fruit
Cheery sunflower
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A backward glance


My spirits were lifted on 24 January 2017, with this sighting of a beautiful Barred Owl. I've barely been out looking for Snowy Owls and Short-eared Owls this winter and have only seen a few, very distant birds - at least until the 25 January 2017, when I was lucky enough to see 11 Snowy Owls outside the city, with a friend who is brilliant at spotting things. I've also missed a recent Long-eared Owl and a Northern Saw-whet Owl.
This was only the second 100% wild Barred Owl I’d ever seen. I had seen a family of them near Edmonton, when we went to see ones that had been banded. They were wild birds, but I still hoped to one day see a completely wild one (no nesting box). The owl in this photo was beautiful – crummy light, but I was so happy to see this owl. We very rarely see this species within the city, so it was a real treat. Took a long walk before seeing it, and it took me a few days to recover from it - but it was so worth it.
"The Barred Owl’s hooting call, “Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all?” is a classic sound of old forests and treed swamps. But this attractive owl, with soulful brown eyes and brown-and-white-striped plumage, can also pass completely unnoticed as it flies noiselessly through the dense canopy or snoozes on a tree limb. Originally a bird of the east, during the twentieth century it spread through the Pacific Northwest and southward into California." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Barred_Owl/id
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barred_owl
This was only the second 100% wild Barred Owl I’d ever seen. I had seen a family of them near Edmonton, when we went to see ones that had been banded. They were wild birds, but I still hoped to one day see a completely wild one (no nesting box). The owl in this photo was beautiful – crummy light, but I was so happy to see this owl. We very rarely see this species within the city, so it was a real treat. Took a long walk before seeing it, and it took me a few days to recover from it - but it was so worth it.
"The Barred Owl’s hooting call, “Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all?” is a classic sound of old forests and treed swamps. But this attractive owl, with soulful brown eyes and brown-and-white-striped plumage, can also pass completely unnoticed as it flies noiselessly through the dense canopy or snoozes on a tree limb. Originally a bird of the east, during the twentieth century it spread through the Pacific Northwest and southward into California." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Barred_Owl/id
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barred_owl
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