A little Red-breasted Nuthatch paying a visit to a friend during a walk at Bebo Grove, Fish Creek Park, on November 11th. As I type this, snow is gently falling - again : )
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"Just" a lovely female Mallard enjoying a little sunny break at the pond in the Canadian Wilds at the Calgary Zoo, on October 8th.
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Such a distant and very heavily cropped image of this tiny, rare to uncommon (in Alberta) owl, so it's very poor quality. However, you take what you can get with this tiny, fist-sized owl, lol! Taken two days ago in Fish Creek Park. It sat on a branch maybe two feet away from the branch in this photo, for three hours on Tuesday morning, with a windchill of -22C, and then flew to this nearby branch, so at least I got a few slightly different photos. Brutal weather, especially when one is standing still. Some of us went to look again this morning, but no sign at all of this beautiful little bird of prey. This photo at this size shows the owl at very roughly half its actual size. So, pretty small, don't you think?
This afternoon, our temperature is 4C (39F) and it feels wonderful!!!
Has anyone seen this video of some very clever painting, by Holton Rower? From YouTube. My son had it displayed on his Facebook page.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6egUsZvWu4
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An image that has been cropped to almost nothing, lol, so the quality is really bad. However, it is so rare that I get the chance to photograph a Merlin, so wanted it for my Birds of Alberta Set. This one was seen at Votier's Flats , Fish Creek Park, two days ago.
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Not good quality as the light was so bad, but there is still something I like about this image - colouring, bokeh? Just one of the many little Black-capped Chickadees down at Bebo Grove, Fish Creek Park, on Thursday morning.
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