Alberta Plants – Pasque Flower
Although I was a little early and the not all the flowers were not in full bloom, I did encounter a few Pasque flowers emerging to take in the sun. Pulsatilla patens Although I did not get to see them...
View ArticleAlberta Birds – Brewer’s Blackbird
Brewer’s Blackbird – seen near Brooks, Alberta in late June. Euphagus cyanocephalus
View ArticleGrizzlies – Rockies, Alberta, Canada
And finally I get round to writing about my two encounters with the great grizzlies of North America. I have been slightly spurred on by my last post but also by a news report on how the bears are...
View ArticlePrincess of the Prairie in flight over a Canadian marsh
Everywhere I have been in Canada I have encountered hen (Northern) Harriers. Harriers are special birds. I spent my youth watching Hen in the marshes of East Kent and on late winter evenings we used...
View ArticleMy Tree year – choosing the tree
When I first heard about my tree year – an idea set up by @dreamfalcon to get people to watch a tree for a year as part of the International Year of the Forest – I was very excited. But here is the...
View ArticleCow Moose browsing in wet meadow near Grand Lake, Colorado
The collection of cars pulled up on the side of the road suggest a big mammal was about. I joined the fray. And there in the damp meadows and scrub was a cow moose quietly feeding oblivious to our...
View ArticleTom’s Finch sings in the bog – Steamboat Lake, Routt, County, Colorado
They are everywhere you go, zipping between bushes where the melt water has collected or in damp bog’s. Tom’s Finch (Melospiza lincolnii), better known as the Lincoln sparrow was named by Audobon in...
View ArticleYellow beats the red wings of a blackbird
There is always one bird wherever you travel in the world that you just get kind of fed up with. Bulbuls in Turkey, Juncos in British Columbia and, to be h0nest the Red-winged Blackbird everywhere in...
View ArticleMelting snow releases the Lily with many names
The melting snow releases the Fawn Lily. But this Lily has with many names. It is known variously, according to my Rocky Mountain flower books as the Glacier lily the avalanche lily and the snow lily....
View ArticleDowny ‘sapsucker’ in Downtown park, Glenwood Springs, CO
The Downy ‘sapsucker’ is to the Lesser-spotted Woodpecker what the Hairy is to the Greater-spotted. The one difference is the Lesser-potted is somewhat elusive in it’s European home. Had to see and a...
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