Friday 31 March 2017

Fort Whyte 31 March 2017


Crow Landing
Saw a Crow without a tail. It seemed to be doing quite well.




Cackling Geese standing on sunken ice.

Cackling Geese

Canada Geese
From their behavior it seemed they were claiming this rail car as their own.


Claiming territory, none of the other Geese seemed to pay them any attention.

Canada Goose standing on sunken ice.

Black Capped Chickadee

Black Capped Chickadee
This one was singing its heart out. It was very beautiful.

Crow

Dark Eyed Junco

Dark Eyed Junco

Fox Sparrow

Fox Sparrow

Fox Sparrow

Fox Sparrow

Fox Sparrow

Ice is starting to rot on one of the larger lakes.
Squirrel

White areas of water are sunken ice.

Friday 24 March 2017

Bald Eagles March 2017 and Assorted Photos from 2016

First 7 photos are from late March 2017.

Bald Eagles pairing on river ice floe South of Lake Winnipeg
Photo by Nia and Ralph Massey 

Cackling and Canada Geese
There were close to 100 present. Ponds still frozen. The Geese had departed by the following day.






Butterfly Cabbage White 

Butterfly Painted Lady 

Deer


Dragonfly

Flowers

Abandoned farm house.
Whitewater Lake, Manitoba

Fall leaves

Mallard Squirrel Stand-off
It ended peacefully with both eating seed

Meadow Lark - Mallard

Northern Shovelers - Blue Winged Teals

Painted Turtle

Palm Warbler

Pelican

Pied Billed Grebe

Rail cars on a gray day

Saturday 18 March 2017

Assorted Photos - 2016

Baltimore Oriole Immature 

Bank Swallow

Barn Swallow

Brown Thrasher 

Butterfly Eyed Brown 

Butterfly Painted Lady 

Cackling Geese

Canada Geese Goslings

Clay Colored Sparrow - Gold Finch 

Coots

Deer 

Deer 

Double Crested Cormorants 

Downy Woodpecker 

Eastern Kingbird

Fall

Goldfinch

Greater Yellow Legs

Hooded Merganser

House Finch

Lake at Morden Manitoba

Leaves

Muskrat

Painted Turtle

Squirrel

Thistle