Boring pics
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We were incredibly lucky to find this normally very secretive owl out in the open and only 5 minutes away from a skittish Great Grey Owl hunting on the same stretch of road. It was nearly dark hence ISO 4000 and 1/20th of a second.
Another look at this cute little one.
Grey Nun's White Spruce Forest. St. Albert, Alberta.
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This is a so-called lifer, accessed thanks to the kindness of a neighbour, who found it on his property in a tree sometimes visited by a Northern Saw-whet..
Even though the owl was protected in the canopy of this conifer, the strong gusty wind would ruffle its breast feathers and caused it to hide its face much of the time that I was there.
An uncommon Chickadee found mostly in Canada, Alaska and northern parts of a few northern US states.
A bright spot in a fairly slow wildlife day in the field for me yesterday was finding a couple of these. Most of our winter owls have migrated out of southern MB and few raptors and other species have migrated in. Northern Harriers and Bald Eagles were the most prevalent of the raptor in-migrators where I was.
The Boreal Chickadee breeds in all Canadian Provinces and Territories as well as Alaska, Washington and the very north of some eastern US states. In central Alberta, they are not as common as Black-capped Chickadees, but in more northern latitudes, they begin to outnumber the Black-capped Chickadees.
This image shows the chocolate-brown cap they sport as well as the cinnamon colour of the flanks. Their call is much more wheezy than the familiar call of the Black-capped Chickadee.
Click on the link below to listen to the call.
This was a most unexpected and unusual sighting in a park in Calgary, Alberta. This was a long shot as the owl was far in the forest. But I was very happy to see it as it is a lifer for me.
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I think they might even be Googling the rules of snakes and ladders... Some more HDR loveliness for Sliders Sunday - HSS, everybody! :)
Accompanied my son to the Houston Zoo on a sunny Saturday, chockablock with parents with children of all ages learning something important about the diversity of life. That's an important mission for a zoo; preserving species in the midst of the sixth (anthropomorphic) extinction is another. I took my camera. Looking at my photos later I resolved not to photograph captive animals. But the expression on this gorilla's face, which summed up my predicament (and his or her predicament), had to be posted. What's the right thing to do?
Finally home! not that my summer so far has been boring (the last 2 months involved quite a bit of traveling), however there is no place like home. I took this one at the port of Aigina island in Greece, and I will say that it was a very challenging shot. I had with me only my small tripod, so I was pretty much layed on the ground and my camera wouldn't focus so I had to switch it to manual focus and tried to do it via the screen and not through the viewfinder. It was a lovely night, the blue hour more specifically, and the waterfront promenade at Aigina's port was quite busy. After the last ferry of the day departs from the island, they shut down the main street to pedestrians only so it's really nice for families to walk without being worried about traffic.
Bjarno - Factor 30
Sometimes i can easily get bored,so i don't have to stop my self
and..... go,go,go,go!
Pic taken at : maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sereno%20Bay/224/64/29
Took today off from work (out late last night at a choir concert), and went over to Commonwealth Lake this morning. I heard active chickadees in the trees on the north end of the park. Didn't get any shots of them (pretty dark there, and they move fast), then spotted a large dark mass in one of the trees. Turns out it as the elusive barred owl I'd heard of others having seen. Got a series of it as it posed for me. Eventually it got bored with me, so I moved on. By the way, this is a lifer for me!