Birds, Moth, Butterfly - July 2015

Butterfly

Yellow Headed Blackbirds

Cackling Geese, Gadwall, Coot, Wilson's Phalarope

Cackling Geese, Northern Shoveller, Coot

Hairy Woodpecker 

Yellow Headed Blackbird

Tree Swallow

Prairie Dogs

Moth

Mallard

Yellow Headed Blackbird

Assorted Bird and Fall Photos from October 2015

Coot

Coot

Dark Eyed Junco

Ducks

Prairie Dog

Prairie Dog

Richardson Marsh

Immature Ring Billed Gull?

Seed Pod

Sod Hut - Period Posters, Doorway

Period posters from the sod hut, also a photo of the doorway.

Walls would be about 16 inches thick

I believe this is a Norwegian or Icelandic poster

I believe this is a Dutch poster

Birds - 9-15 May 2015

Blue Jay being fed

Brown Thrasher

Chipping Sparrow - House Sparrow

Chipping Sparrows

Ring Billed Gull

Rose Breasted Grosbeak

Rose Breasted Grosbeaks

Song Sparrows

Yellow Rumped Warbler - Pine Siskin

Yellow Rumped Warbler 

Yellow Rumped Warbler 

Green Heron - July 2015

Was surprised to see this little Heron at Fort Whyte in July. My first sighting of a Green Heron. I didn't even notice it at first. Wasn't certain what it was until I zoomed in on it, then proceeded to take just a few hundred photos of it. It finally took off and headed away from me and out of sight. A few minutes later I caught movement in my peripheral vision, spun and saw it was the Heron. I took a series of in flight shots but the camera settings were wrong and they didn't turn out as well as I had hoped, but was pleased they turned out as well as they did.
I saw the Heron once more a few weeks later flying at a distance. Hope to encounter it again next year.

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Surprise in flight encounter. The next 2 photos were the only in flight photos that turned out reasonably well.