Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: interestingness#198

Yes, I have been posting SO many photos of mushrooms recently, that I thought everyone needed a quick break with a bird image instead, LOL. Sorry, Machel : ) This little Burrowing Owl was at the Coaldale Bird of Prey Centre, near Lethbridge, southern Alberta. It's a wonderful centre that takes in injured birds of prey and releases the ones that can be released and trains those that are too severely injured to survive back in the wiild. Another long day of botanizing today - was out of the house from 7:30 a.m. till about 6:00 p.m. A handful of us spent the day covering the Fullerton Loop that begins from Allan Bill Pond, off Elbow Falls Trail. All that exercise and sun has me feeling as if I could fall asleep any moment soon. Can't wait to post an amazing mushroom we saw - maybe tomorrow.

Almost a week ago, we had such a beautiful day when all the fresh snow actually stayed on the branches. Not a breath of wind to destroy this beauty. Went for a walk with friends in Fish Creek Park and little did we know that, just a bit further, we would get the chance to see a tiny, rare to uncommon, Northern Pygmy-owl. It felt a magical day!

I posted a couple of other photos in this "series" quite a while ago, but came across this one when looking though my less recent photos. These baby Gophers are so beautiful and I just hope that none of them became dinner for the family of Great Horned Owls that live just a few feet away!

Another little Chickadee photo that was not uploaded earlier in the winter. One of the rare days that we had where the sky was blue!