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The image was obtained on a lek on the Idaho-Utah border. The grouse danced under my truck which was my blind.
I tried lightening this image even more, but then found that I lost the colour of the sky. The original was just a black silhouette and a richer sky, but thought I would lighten a little to show a bit of feather detail. I do have a shot or two of a different Sharp-tailed Grouse, taken in "proper" light, that I will post later.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Sharp-tailed_Grouse/id
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp-tailed_grouse
The LAST Nanton Count was originally supposed to have taken place on 28 December 2013, but the weather forecast warned of a Flash Freeze, and so it was postponed till 5 January 2014. The weather was bright and sunny for us that day. However, photos taken on that day did not show how brutally cold it was! On the hour-long drive south of Calgary, we hit -34C (-29.2F)!!!!! It did eventually warm up a few degrees and thankfully, there was no or very little wind, which makes all the difference. The only walking we had to do was when we called in at various farms and homesteads. One backroad in particular had too much snow on it, so we had to leave that one out. Also, there was just too much snow in many of the farmyards, so we weren't able to check out all the trees and bushes as thoroughly as we would like to have done. I absolutely love the scenery on this Count, so I was able to get a few shots to show some typical snowy landscapes.
THIS year's Nanton Count was so different, with snow seen only in places, making the roads so much easier to drive, and temperatures that were much milder. As usual, I didn't get many birds photos, but I was thrilled to get a few shots of one of the Sharp-tailed Grouse. There were two of them on the fence at this farm.
After the Count, we returned to the meeting place at the home of Leah and Bill, where they had prepared a delicious supper that they so generously provide each year for us (as well as a breakfast snack). You couldn't wish for a nicer family (includes their son, Mike, who puts in a lot of effort organizing this annual Count each year).
I'm posting Andrew Hart's E-bird Summary of our small (just four of us in one car) group's day (leader Tony Timmons). Won't be of interest to most of you, but it helps me remember what we see from year to year!
Andrew Hart
BirdLog Checklist Summary for: Dec 14, 2014
Number of Checklists: 7
Number of Species: 14
Checklists included in this summary:
(1): Williams Coulee
Date: Dec 21, 2014, 8:20 AM
(2): CA-AB-Cayley - 50.3485x-114.0250 - Dec 21, 2014, 8:57 AM
Date: Dec 21, 2014, 8:55 AM
(3): Nanton general area
Date: Dec 21, 2014, 9:45 AM
(4): CA-AB-Nanton - 50.3330x-113.8737 - Dec 21, 2014, 11:18 AM
Date: Dec 21, 2014, 11:18 AM
(5): Nanton general area
Date: Dec 21, 2014, 11:52 AM
(6): Williams Coulee
Date: Dec 21, 2014, 2:20 PM
(7): Nanton general area
Date: Dec 21, 2014, 2:30 PM
36 Sharp-tailed Grouse -- (2),(3)
6 Golden Eagle -- (1),(3),(5),(6)
3 Rough-legged Hawk -- (2),(3),(6)
102 Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) -- (3),(4)
1 Hairy Woodpecker -- (1)
1 Northern Flicker (Red-shafted) -- (4)
1 Merlin -- (4)
1 Prairie Falcon -- (1)
27 Black-billed Magpie -- (1),(2),(3),(4),(5),(7)
42 Common Raven -- (1),(2),(3),(4),(5),(7)
11 Black-capped Chickadee -- (3),(4)
4 European Starling -- (4)
21 Common Redpoll -- (4)
38 House Sparrow -- (2),(4),(7)
Andrew Hart"
I will also add leader Tony Timmons' account - simpler to read : ) A few of the numbers are slightly different in each summary, though I'm not quite sure why. We were so lucky to see so many Golden Eagles this Count.
"Nanton Count-Area D
Species 14
Rough-legged Hawk 3
Golden Eagle 5
Merlin 1
Sharp-tailed Grouse 46
Rock Pigeon 106
Hairy Woodpecker 1
Northern Flicker 1
Northern Shrike 1
Black-billed Magpie 36
Common Raven 44
Black-capped Chickadee 11
Common Redpoll 21
European Starling 4
House Sparrow 38
Prairie Falcon 1 Seen in Williams Coulee, included in Area B
Tony Timmons"
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The mating routine of sharp-tailed grouse involves males displaying communally at a traditional site (one used year after year). This site is known as a “lek.” Males compete for mates by performing a ritualized dance in conjunction with calling (often a booming sound) and inflating purplish air sacs along their necks. Females approach the edge of the lek, observe and eventually select a dance participant to mate with.
Credit: USFWS
Sharpness Docks at one time were thriving with ships off-loading. Nowadays they are fairly quiet, with perhaps three or four cargo vessels visiting each week.
Alena Sharp on the 7th green during Wednesday's practice round at the Ricoh Women's British Open Golf Championship 2016.
This was surprisingly pivotal in the fixing up of the drain I worked on this afternoon.
(And I rather like the texture of the cut side.)
"Sharp" // Shot on Thursday 2 October 2014 at Masjid Raya Sabilal Muhtadin, Banjarmasin, Kalimantan Selatan, Indonesia.
Sharp-shinned hawk (f, Accipiter striatus), with a goldfinch that was recently feasting on thistle seed in our feeder.
Very sharp Freightliner Cascadia expeditor leased to FedEx Custom Critical from Green, OH, parked at the Papa John's Cardinal Stadium in Louisville, KY the day before the Mid America Trucking Show in March, 2015.
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Taken at Marong Picnic, Marong, Victoria in 2014.
I love that Risse has such sharp, pointy features! She's quite different than my usual aesthetic and I love that about her. Wah! <3
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Vance Vivian fashion shoot, ca 1960, 1 /2-211189-F, K E Niven and Co. commercial negatives, Alexander Turnbull Library
It is always good to celebrate a successful Wellington business. Vance Vivian, Wellington’s very own specialty top-of-the-range men’s clothing store has just turned ninety. They are still going strong – setting the standards for sharp suits and other fine male fashion.
The firm was begun by Mt George Vance and Mr Harold Vivian in 1924. Vivian was bought out in the 1930s and since then the business has stayed in the Vance family. It is now owned and operated by the third-generation Vance brothers, Robert and Hamish.
The original store was up on the corner of Manners and Cuba streets, about where Banks Shoe Shop is now. Very soon a second shop was opened at the bottom end of Lambton Quay and, later, there were Vance Vivian shops in the Hutt, Masterton, Christchurch and Auckland. Nowadays the business is concentrated on the Lambton Quay shop, now up the other end of the Quay, opposite Cable Car Lane.
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