Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: poster edges

On 9 January 2016, when I took part in a Mid-winter Bust-out trip east of the city, led by Terry Korolyk. Eight of us, plus our leader, took part in this day trip - maybe when everyone else saw what the temperature was first thing in the morning (-23C, not counting windchill, which would have made it much colder), they changed their mind about going! Everything was covered in a heavy layer of hoar frost, which turned everywhere into a beautiful winter wonderland. The sky was blue for some of the time - what more could anyone want? Well, a few birds would be nice, of course : ) The highlight of the day was seeing 6 Short-eared Owls, in addition to 6 Snowy Owls (7 seen by the people in the other cars, when we split up at the end of the day). As a photographer, though, the only birds that were close enough were two of the Snowy Owls and even they were quite a long way from us. All the Short-eared Owls were tiny dots in the landscape. I don't know how anyone was able to spot them! Our meeting place was right across the city; a drive that I never enjoy at all, but I really didn't want to miss this outing. Some of the roads we travelled were ones that I had driven several times before. Most of the time, though, I had no idea where we were : ) As always happens on any day that I go anywhere, I turned my camera lens to anything else of interest/beauty, even more so when the birds are way, way off in the distance. The splash of pink in an otherwise white world meant that that this distant barn just had to be photographed. Unfortunately, the image was very distorted due to heat haze distortion and was only fit to be deleted. So, I tried putting it through a filter in post-processing and quite liked the result. Most of the photos I took of anything yesterday are so blurry and not fit for use. Zoomed in shots, especially, suffered from the heat distortion - and distorted they are! I will add the list of bird species seen that Andrew H. compiled. Many thanks for driving some of us. Thank you, Terry - it was a great day and much appreciated, as always! You did an excellent write-up of the whole day (not posted here). 3 Canada Goose 4 Rough-legged Hawk 6 Snowy Owl 6 Short-eared Owl 1 Downy Woodpecker 34 Black-billed Magpie 46 Common Raven 73 Horned Lark 1 Black-capped Chickadee 75 Snow Bunting 511 Common Redpoll 1 Hoary Redpoll 32 House Sparrow

”Just” the usual Lily photo, but I did love the colour! This gorgeous, vivid orange Lily was growing at the Reader Rock Garden on 23 July 2014. Added a filter in post-processing, just for a change.