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Taken at the Bird of Prey Center in Coaldale, Alberta. They do great work to rehabilitate injured birds that are brought to them and release them back into the wild, if possible.
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Remote truck stop/motel in central Nevada in 1998, shortly after it was closed and abandoned. Not much left there now. Ektachrome 100.
That's gotta hurt or at least feel uncomfortable.
Watching this yellow headed black bird fly to multiple cattails and seeing him hit the same pose starts to make sense when you figure that their nests are at the base of these cattails.
It still looks awkward for me.
Photographed in Coaldale, Alberta, Canada at the Birds of Prey Center.
These owls were at the Birds of Prey Center in Coaldale, Alberta. They are just starting to grow their adult feathers. They should be release these owls in the fall as soon as their adult feathers all grow in. It is an awesome place to visit.
To say that this Great Horned Owl's eyes were captivating would be an understatement. He was pretty interested in what I was up to as well!
On the day we visited the Alberta Birds of Prey Foundation, it was a hot day and the birds were feeling it too. I thought the owl was panting but it seems they do something called, gular fluttering, which is a fluttering of the neck muscles with an open mouth and is used to dissipate heat.
One of the things I enjoy about photography is that you often learn something new. I had no idea birds do this.
QAEX sits against a cut of 60 cars in Coaldale to take out to QA and shift out... to my understanding this is the first time in quite awhile that engines have been this far out on the old L&NE.
Remember the remains of this little cottage in the country . Prevailing weather conditions and time have taken their toll on this rudimentary structure and its collapsed gradually making its way back to earth .. in time ...
Dreams of a country cottage in ruin .
Coaldale
Via Grafton . NSW
Lightning inside a thunderstorm lights up the clouds and the landscape in Central Nevada.
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Pump island, built for high-speed impacts, at a wide spot on US 95 called Coaldale, in west-central Nevada. From here you can see down the normally busy highway about 5 miles, but it was late enough that I could make a 2 minute exposure with no visible headlights. Full moon and red flashlight. Summer 2013.
Former dairy bales in ruin .. there goes the dairy industry around this district .
Coaldale Valley
Via Grafton . NSW
View of the Prince of Wales Hotel from the Bear's Paw Trail at dawn.
The exceptionally severe Kenow Wildfire of September 11, 2017 consumed 74 square miles in Waterton Lakes National Park in a 24-48 hour period. The landscape was incinerated while wildland firefighters and municipal fire crews from Calgary, Coaldale, Lethbridge, and Taber heroically protected the Prince and Waterton townsite overnight.
The land is slowly renewing.
Built between 1926 and 1927, the Prince of Wales Hotel was named for Edward, Prince of Wales, who briefly reigned as King Edward VIII in 1936.
The Prince of Wales Hotel was designated a National Historic Site in 1993.
Please follow this link to Parks Canada to read its photographic recap of the Kenow Wildfire: parks.canada.ca/pn-np/ab/waterton/nature/environment/feu-...
Taken at Alberta Bird of Prey Centre where they rescue and release injured and orphaned birds of prey back to the wild.
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Yes you will! This is a 3 week old Snowy Owl baby and is posted just for fun. 2 babies hatched at the Coaldale Bird of Prey Center where this photo was taken. They were each in a blue plastic bin and this was the more vocal one asking to be fed. I was told that, because they are not endangered, they will not be released back to the wild. They will be ambassadors for their species and will be used to educate people. The center does great work to rehabilitate injured birds that are brought to them and release them back into the wild, if possible. Taken in captivity in Coaldale, Alberta.
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One week old Merlin another BIG thrill for my husband and I. The Birds of Prey center allowed to see this sweetie (apparently they don't usually show them off when they are this little)
We were, of course, not allowed to hold it or touch it.
*** Update Aug 25,2010---I got an email from the center today.
The "Swainsons" baby is actually a baby Merlin. They attached an updated photo but cannot seem to save it big enough to show here.
I shot some images of this abandoned and trashed travel plaza in Coaldale, Nevada, but the approaching storm proved more photogenic.
It didn’t really dump that much rain, but the threat caused me to skip a promising ghost town a few miles down a dirt road near here.
Poached Egg - This Raven is making his get-away. Any ideas on who's egg this belongs to?
Photographed at Birds of Prey in Coaldale, Alberta, Canada.
I was adjusting my camera settings and then looked and started shooting. A split second later, I would have missed this shot.
Maybe this owl does not look amused because it suffers from Irritable Owl Syndrome, ha, ha. So many owl species tend to have an "angry" expression. An up close and personal shot of a little Burrowing Owl, who resides at the Alberta Bird of Prey Centre in Coaldale, southern Alberta, a wonderful place that rehabilitates and releases (whenever possible) various birds of prey - hawks, owls, Bald Eagles, Turkey Vultures, and Golden Eagles. Some of these birds act as Wildlife Ambassadors, too, educating the public.
""As a result of its ENDANGERED Species status in 1995, it has the focus of a variety of conservation efforts. Operation Burrowing Owl and other projects involving habitat preservation with landowners have been created. Populations are monitored by Fish and Wildlife departments. They have been reintroduced into the British Columbia interior, where it was extirpated. Outlook would improve if larger areas of habitat were preserved and harmful pesticides were banned in all areas of their range. Numbers could increase if an increased tolerance to burrowing mammals develops (i.e. badgers) – provides homes for the Burrowing Owl. Outlook: perilous." From burrowingowl.com.
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I have only ever once seen a Burrowing Owl - two, possibly three of them - in the wild, and I was so very lucky to get that chance. To say that it was a thrill is an understatement! These endangered owls are tiny and so difficult to see, especially when they are down in the grasses. I may add a previously posted photo of a wild one in a comment box below.
It had been a few years since my last visit to the Alberta Birds of Prey Centre - I had only been maybe three or four times - and I had been longing to go back. Much too far and all new driving territory for me to even think about driving there myself. However, on 9 September 2016, that is exactly what I did. A friend had said she would come along, too, but she emailed me at 1:00 am that morning to say that she assumed our trip had been cancelled, as she hadn't heard back about the time to meet. In fact, I had sent two emails giving the time, so I don't know what happened there. Very unfortunate, as it would have been great to have had company on such a long drive, and I know she would have had fun with her camera.
I knew it would be a long day and further than I would normally drive - and in a brand new car that I had/have yet to learn to drive! It didn't look or feel quite as new after travelling 481 km! Only got lost twice, one minor and the other major. Must have taken a wrong turn somewhere way down south and I ended up in the city of Lethbridge, that I had very carefully planned to avoid. After driving for three and three-quarter hours, I finally arrived at my destination, to my huge relief.
Despite getting there later than I had hoped, I still had more than enough time to wander round the grounds and photograph the various raptors. Some were tethered out in a grassy area and others, including this Burrowing Owl, were in outdoor cages. It looks like this one had an injury to its beak? Wonderful to get such a close look at the various majestic birds.
I took a slightly different way home via #845 (?), making absolutely sure that I didn't accidentally find myself in Lethbridge again and it wasn't too long before I found myself in the area that I had driven weeks ago, when I went SW of Vulcan to look for Common Nighthawks (without any luck).
Just so happy that I finally made myself do this drive. When I Googled the Centre's website, I had discovered that they were closing two days later for the winter. So, it was either a case of going the next day or not at all till next May onward.
The day after this adventure, 10 September 2016, I took my daughter on a long drive in Kananaskis. This was yet another place that I had longed to be able to drive for many years - and finally I did it! I had been lots of times with various friends, but this was the very first time I had ever driven myself. We had planned to do this a few weeks earlier, but then my car had major repairs that needed to be done. Instead, I knew I just couldn't put any more money into my 17-year-old car, and I ended up replacing it. So glad we went on this particular day, as it snowed the following day.
On Sunday, 20 July 2014, I plucked up courage to do a drive that I’d never done before. I had been that particular route once before that I can think of, when I carpooled with others. A good part of the drive was in familiar territory, but I’d never driven the last part of the journey myself. I had met my daughter at 9:00 a.m. and we were both eager to see a display of birds of prey that had been brought up from the Coaldale Birds of Prey Centre.
On display were a Burrowing Owl, a Barn Owl, the beautiful Great Horned Owl in the above photo, and a Golden Eagle. Another real treat that was an amusing one, was seeing a baby Barn Owl that was just 45 days old! This little ball of fluff was acting as a great ambassador, letting young kids get a close view and ask questions, and fall in love with it – and to hopefully, in the future, do everything they can as adults to protect our precious wildlife. The enjoyment of seeing these birds up close reminds one that the reason these birds are not free to live in the wild, is because of some kind of interaction with humans – such as permanent injuries from being hit by a vehicle, pesticide use, or even worse, being shot by a human! This is what happened to “Spirit”, the magnificent Golden Eagle, shot and blinded by someone. Sadly, Spirit passed away fairly recently, after serving as a very popular Wildlife Ambassador..
This exhibit was our first destination in the park, though on the drive from Calgary, we had stopped at the small McDougall Church at Morley. After seeing and photographing the birds of prey, we then drove to Middle Lake that’s in a different part of the park. We walked the very short distance to the edge of the lake, but didn’t walk around it. From there, we drove to Many Springs Trail and did a very slow walk around the lake, stopping to look at different flowers and photograph a few butterflies. Certain wildflowers were already finished, including various Orchid species, but there were still plenty of other species to see and enjoy. Even the weather cooperated, though the forecast had been for isolated showers. Not too hot, nice clouds in the sky and lovely to have my daughter’s company for the day.
Thanks so much to the people down at the Coaldale Bird of Prey Centre (near Lethbridge, down towards the Canada/US border) for bringing some of your gorgeous birds of prey for us to see! I have been south to the Centre three times I think, and always long to go back again, but it's not somewhere I can drive to, so this was a much-appreciated treat!