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"WHAT WE'VE GOT HERE IS A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE" - Bald Eagle & Black-billed Magpie

March 17, 2024 • Leave a Comment

"WHAT WE'VE GOT HERE IS FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE" Bald Eagle & Black-billed Magpie - 6 Photos It's that infamous line from the 1967 film, "Cool Hand Luke". Continuing on from the post, "Parent Potential", eventually the male adult Bald Eagle took flight, leaving his female partner preening on her branch of the tree. Not long after, arrived the in...

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"COYOTE BIDS THE SUN GOOD NIGHT" - Coyote

March 13, 2024 • Leave a Comment

"COYOTE BIDS THE SUN GOOD NIGHT" Coyote - 7 Photos It may have been an end to the day, but for the coyote it's probably only the beginning of another shift of hunting. And although there may have been some "negotiations" between two coyotes as to which direction to take, eventually the second coyote won the debate and the first (and larger) one...

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"PARENT POTENTIAL" - Bald Eagle

March 11, 2024 • 1 Comment

"PARENT POTENTIAL" Bald Eagle - 9 Photos Courtship now complete (or at the very least a re-affirming of the partnership), it will be back to nest building for preparation of egg laying & eventually the arrival of chicks later in the Spring, hopefully. This probably won't be the first go-round for this pair and potentially not the last. In fact,...

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"FIELD OF DREAMS" - Coyote

March 10, 2024 • 1 Comment

"FIELD OF DREAMS" Coyote - 6 Photos So in the movie "Field of Dreams" a team of baseball players seemed to appear and then magically disappear into a cornfield. Well this is a grassy meadow not a cornfield, but a coyote with its camouflage colouring can seem to appear & disappear into the grasses and shrubbery. And as for the field of dreams, I...

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"DEMISE OF A SQUIRREL" - Coyote

March 04, 2024 • Leave a Comment

"DEMISE OF A SQUIRREL" Coyote - 12 Photos The photos that follow might be discomforting to some. However, in all things Nature, there exists two camps - prey & predator, bearing in mind that predator can also become prey and prey - predator. For example, muskrats are a favourite food source for herons, bobcats, coyotes, etc. but I have been witnes...

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"I REALLY AM RUGGEDLY HANDSOME, AREN'T I!" - Coyote

March 01, 2024 • Leave a Comment

"I REALLY AM RUGGEDLY HANDSOME, AREN'T I?" Coyote - 6 Photos Following on from the blog "SHADOW WORK" (February 24th, 2024), Photo #2, the following photos were taken on different days over the course of the past few months. As mentioned in that previous blog, the title is a line spoken by Nathan Fillion as his writer character, in an episode f...

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"CANID CANDIDS" - Coyote

February 26, 2024 • 1 Comment

"CANID CANDIDS" Coyote - 7 Photos Just a few words under this blog but basically, I will let the photos that follow (or more so, the subject), speak for themselves. The scientific name for the coyote is "Canis latrans" or barking dog in Latin, so named for its vocalizations. The coyote has many other names, such as prairie wolf, brush wolf, lit...

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"SHADOW WORK" - Coyote

February 24, 2024 • 1 Comment

"SHADOW WORK" Coyote - 5 Photos Take a sunny day and a coyote working its way across the snow and sometimes you get "a two for one". These photos were taken on different days and at different times of the day, but each one has a coyote complete with its shadow counterpart. No wall in a dark room or human hands required, just Nature providing th...

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"JUST BE CAREFUL OUT THERE" - Red Squirrel

February 21, 2024 • 1 Comment

"JUST BE CAREFUL OUT THERE" Red Squirrel - 7 Photos A little intermission from coyote blogs, although "coyote" will turn up in this blog. I hadn't seen this little red squirrel for a week or so. It visits a very large fir tree, near where I like to sit & watch for wildlife. The tree has an extremely large bottom bough which covers a large circu...

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