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I went to Minnesota hoping to see 1 or 2 Great Gray Owls. I saw 14. I never expected to see a Boreal Owl, but saw 4 and managed to photograph 3 of them. Also saw 2 Northern Hawk Owls and 2 Snowy Owls. This has been a huge irruption year up North of me.
Dave is at volleyball and I used to go watch him all last summer and in the beginning this summer, but I have been so tired, and we seem to have things planned/going on EVERY DAY (literally) so I have been using Thursday nights to come home and relax.
I got bored tonight, so I decided to take advantage of Dave's cool graffiti, and play with some of my makeup, and well there ya have it. More to come!
William Hawrelak Park. Edmonton, Alberta.
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i made a stop motion
for things to do when you're bored :3
so its kinda fast but if i would have made it any slower it wouldn't have fit D:
so i hope you can read it
and
i didn't know what song to put on it
so the first song that played on my ipod got the job :D
enjoy this ok
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A Boreal Owl (Aegolius Funereus) in a tree on a snowy winter day along Campbell Creek in Ancorage, Alaska, USA.
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This photo was taken on 27 December 2016, when nine of us (in the group I was in) took part in the annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count for the Sheep River/Priddis/Turner Valley area. Our time was spent travelling by car, driving the backroads SW of the city and calling in at several acreages/ farms.
A Boreal Chickadee made a lovely change from the more common Black-capped Chickadee. I have very few photos of Boreal Chickadees, as I so rarely see them and, when I do, they are too quick and hidden. This particular day was actually a good day for seeing them and also Mountain Chickadees. I'm not a big fan of feeder photos, but better than nothing.
"A brown-capped chickadee of the northern boreal forest, the Boreal Chickadee is one of the few birds living completely within that biome in Canada and bits of the United States." From AllAboutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Boreal_Chickadee/id
If you have or want feeders in your garden, Cornell Lab of Ornithology has an excellent Project Feederwatch site that tells of the best food and types of feeder for almost 100 of the more common birds, including the Boreal Chickadee. Very useful information.
feederwatch.org/learn/common-feeder-birds/?__hstc=7510036...
I took part in this Count for 2015 but had missed it for a few years before that. I believe I had only ever done it twice before that, a few years ago (December 2007 and December 30, 2008). This time, like last year, our area was in the centre of the count circle and I'm so glad I decided to go again.
A great stop was at Rod Handfield's place. Some of us go there very occasionally on botany trips and he always has the best mushrooms and other fungi growing in his forest in the fall. Rod and his wife have such a beautiful cabin there. A Gray Jay gave us a few photo opportunities there, which was appreciated. Usually, I find Gray Jays difficult to photograph, so it was nice to see one close. Rod is always so delightfully hospitable!!
Thanks so much, Donna, for driving half of us - so much appreciated! This also meant that we were lucky enough to see two tiny Northern Pygmy-owls after the Count, too, when we decided to drive a few extra roads on our way home. A beautiful sunny day really helped - not all that cold (for Alberta!). A lot of snow everywhere (almost 8"), but that was OK, as we did so little walking. A great day!
We had a pretty warm day here in Fairbanks. Blue skies and temperatures around +25F, very warm for our neck of the woods this time of year.
I took a walk on the main mushing trail on the north side of the refuge today. With my replaced knee joint the walking was a bit difficult in the loose snow. These trees are black spruce which generally only grow in areas with permafrost close to the surface.
The photos were taken around 1:30 which here that means 1/2 hour after high noon because we're on one hour of daylight savings this time of year. As you see we get "golden hour" light pretty much whenever the sun is up this time of year.
No, the title isn't reflecting what some people would think of a dark side going away shot, that's the location of the photograph. CSX's Hanover to Emory Grove turnaround is westbound on the former Western Maryland Railway's Hanover Subdivision at Boring, MD. Former WM caboose 901863 brings up the rear.
The vantage point for the photo was the backyard deck of an above ground pool that I happened upon while looking for a spot to shoot the train. A woman was out working in the yard, so I approached her, explained what I was doing, and asked if it was ok to shoot from her poolside deck. She laughed and said that was fine, but she may have regretted that decision 45 minutes later when I was still awkwardly standing there and the train still hadn't shown up. Oh well, the things you do when you're 20. A quick check of the satellite imagery shows that the pool and deck are still there and not much has changed with the scene today.
On my walk this afternoon at Tanana Lakes I found this boreal chickadee excavating a nest borrow in a dead poplar tree.
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Once again I am block in by the pond after what seems like months of rains.
I walk around the yard trying to find something, anything but everything seem so boring and mundane all that caught my eyes was this fungus, is it edible or poisonous?
One of the more elusive owl species I’ve now seen, is this Boreal Owl. These are highly nocturnal birds that are typically found in fir/spruce forests of northern North America and Europe. Like the Great Gray Owl in my previous post, these birds move farther south in winters where food is especially scarce. While up in Minnesota, a friend and I were fortune enough to see a few of these small owls. This particular bird had been quietly roosting atop a snag while most observers were distracted by a different owl hunting along the opposite side of the road. This was still quite early in the afternoon, so the light was harsh. Luckily, this bird had chosen a nice shaded spot to perch.