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"MOM ALWAYS DID LOVE YOU BEST" - Beaver (North American)

July 02, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"MOM ALWAYS DID LOVE YOU BEST" Beaver (North American) - 8 Photos Reference: "Mama Needs a Moment" blog (May 7, 2025) and "Take An Awww Moment" blog (May 4, 2025) The matriarch of this particular beaver family, was back in the network of streams & ponds that empty from their lodge pond. Having done a quick overview of the dams, she had a quic...

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"FLOWN THE NEST" - Pileated Woodpecker (Immature)

June 21, 2025 • 1 Comment

"FLOWN THE NEST" Pileated Woodpecker (Immature) - 9 Photos Not certain if this was the only youngster born to a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers or whether he was the last to leave the nest. He might have been last to leave but definitely not last in looks and cuteness. And definitely a male as this youngster is clearly displaying a dark red mousta...

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"CHASING MONSTERS" - Great Blue Heron

June 21, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"CHASING MONSTERS" Great Blue Heron - 9 Photos The blog title is also a title of a television series starring Cyril Chauquet, who travels around the world seeking colossal underwater creatures. Now this White Sucker is not the biggest fish in the world, by far, but it certainly is massive and somewhat, alarming and fished out by this heron fr...

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"EVEN BEAVER MOTHERS NEED A MOMENT" - Beaver (North American)

June 15, 2025 • 1 Comment

"EVEN BEAVER MOTHERS NEED A MOMENT" Beaver (North American) - 8 Photos The term "busy beaver" implies that beavers are busy working all night long (and sometimes during the day too). But beavers like people need time to just chill out, even for a short period. For beavers, it can be grabbing a quick snack (Photo #2 & Photo #3) or even taking a...

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"BRONZE AGE" - Bald Eagle

June 15, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"BRONZE AGE" Bald Eagle (Adult) - 6 Photos For the past few weeks, Calgary's skies have been hazy with smoke from fires occurring in the north. The smoke impacts air quality but it also can produce an interesting lighting effect with the sun shining through the smoke. So a late afternoon, a slight layer of smoke between the clear blue sky an...

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"DAM BUSTING" - Beaver (North American)

June 09, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"DAM BUSTING" Beaver (North American) - 5 Photos Received my first lesson in dam building (or Dam Building 101) from a young beaver late one evening last week. Of course, it was a lesson completed vicariously. I did not physically participate. His/her mother had already done some of the heavy lifting but every beaver when they come of age, are...

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"RESIDENT ALIEN" - Sora

June 08, 2025 • 1 Comment

"RESIDENT ALIEN" Sora - 9 Photos I do realize that the Sora is not an alien but it is a resident during the warm months in Calgary, Alberta, where they nest and produce eggs & offspring. But those feet! If you were in low light conditions and all you could see were those green/yellow legs & feet protruding from the marsh grasses & reeds, you...

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"GUESS WHO HAS NEW ANTLERS!" - Mule Deer

June 05, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"GUESS WHO HAS NEW ANTLERS!" Mule Deer - 7 Photos It's well into Spring, almost Summer and male deer are beginning to regrow their new sets of antlers. Perhaps that's why the males are beginning to let their presence known again (and are not so sheepish). Only time will tell how large each set of antlers will grow and how many points will...

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"ITCH, SCRATCH, RELIEF" - Bald Eagle

June 02, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"ITCH, SCRATCH, RELIEF" Bald Eagle - 9 Photos A Bald Eagle's talons can measure from 1 1/4 inches to 2 inches long depending upon gender. Of course, they are an important tool for snatching fish but extremely useful, as well, in reaching those difficult places in an eagle's feathers when grooming or satisfying an itch. If eagles could spell...

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