x-posted to backyard_birdsToday was biz biz! Mom and I were supposed to go on a birdwatching bus trip to Invermere, British Columbia for the Wings Over the Rockies bird festival. It was cancelled due to lack of interest, which is a shame. It was a gorgeous day today and it would have been beautiful weather. I rented a 100-400mm lens and we went to the Inglewood ( Read more... )

Spring is in full swing where I live. It's like a switch was turned on the first day of spring in March - Canada geese and ducks were suddenly in the park downtown, fierce winds pushed winter out and birds and squirrels and every other little thing took flight or came out of their hole ( Read more... )

Crows have nested on our street for some time, but this is the first time that they have been aggressive. It may be more than one pair of crows too! They have been swooping by the front and back of the house, and it's fair to say that they know where I live ( Read more... )

Huh! A fascinating story of interspecies co-mingling. https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/03/02/ravens-mated-another-species-into-

I got these up on Flickr pretty fast! They took a long time to edit. I took 305 photos and pared them down to the best 34. The flat lighting made it easy to be a little artistic :-) Click the birdie for the full album.

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x-posted to backyard_birdsIt started to snow on Friday. And snow. And snow. And snow. And snow some more. It figured that the weather would turn so severely after some lovely, melty, blue sky days just when I planned to go birdwatching with my friend. She's been enjoying weekend birdwatching trips and I have been so envious of her photographs! With a winter ( Read more... )

I thought David Attenborough being interrupted by the bird of paradise was awesome, but this is better :-)

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Some gorgeous photos to behold!

Bird Photography of the Year

By the way, just wanted to mention that if anyone else is a member of backyard_birds, I think the mods have abandoned the community. I have posts stuck in the queue. I messaged one of the mods that looked like they were using LJ recently, but no luck. Kind of sad, I enjoyed that community when it was

Gulls are really quite populous here in Alberta, a landlocked province in Canada. I enjoy them a lot :-) Here's a senior food inspector on patrol!


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