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"RAIL ROAD" - Sora

June 23, 2024 • 1 Comment

"RAIL ROAD" Sora - 9 Photos The Sora can be described as a small water bird belonging to the Rail family, Rallidae. It is also known as the Sora Rail. So now we have a Sora who is a member of the Rail family using a marshy road to traverse a pond. And what would you call such a road that is used by a rail?? A Rail Road, of course.:) A Sora g...

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"MEET SOME OF CALGARY'S TOP WATER MANAGEMENT ENGINEERS" - Beaver (North American)

June 20, 2024 • 1 Comment

"MEET SOME OF CALGARY'S TOP WATER MANAGEMENT ENGINEERS" Beaver (North American) - 7 Photos This past Wednesday (June 19, 2024) marked two weeks since the rupture of a major water main feeder in Calgary, Alberta. It triggered city wide water restrictions in Calgary, including a Stage 4 water restriction (outside water usage), together with a city...

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"I'M NOT PUDGY!" - Wilson's Snipe

June 16, 2024 • 1 Comment

"I'M NOT PUDGY!" Wilson's Snipe - 5 Photos From my brief research on the Wilson's Snipe, I discovered this description (from a reliable birding source, I may add) - "medium-sized, pudgy shorebirds with short, stocky legs". Medium, shorebird, short stocky legs are all accurate descriptive terms but honestly "pudgy"?:) The Sora, on the other ha...

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"ROCKY ROAD" - Mink (North American)

June 13, 2024 • Leave a Comment

"ROCKY ROAD" Mink (North American) - 7 Photos Rocky Road is a favourite ice cream of many and this mink is definitely one of my favourite minks. Because of his extreme length of body and tail, I'm definitely leaning towards a male rather than a female. Perhaps it's just his way of moving & stretching out over the rocks, but this mink certainly...

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"ONE FISH, TWO FISH, THREE FISH" - Mink (North American)

June 10, 2024 • 1 Comment

"ONE FISH, TWO FISH, THREE FISH" Mink (North American) - 7 Photos This is a follow-up to the previous blog, "WHERE THE TREE LINE ENDS, CATTAILS GROW". There probably was a good reason that this mink returned to the same hunting grounds twice within a relatively short period. Having scouted the rocks in that rapid & erratic mink manner mid-morni...

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"TURBULENT WATERS" - Prussian Carp & Raven

June 06, 2024 • 1 Comment

"TURBULENT WATERS" Prussian Carp & Raven - 11 Photos Had been sitting by a small narrow creek, which is fed by a storm pond, late afternoon when I heard loud splashing coming from upstream. I thought, at first, that I had hit the jackpot & it was a mink fishing but when I looked down, there was no mink to be seen but a great deal of turbulent w...

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"WHERE THE TREE LINE ENDS, CATTAILS GROW" - Mink (North American)

June 04, 2024 • Leave a Comment

"WHERE THE TREE LINE ENDS, CATTAILS GROW" Mink (North American) - 7 Photos "You can find me down where the tree line ends and the cattails grow" is a line from the chorus of the song "Old Dirt Roads" sung by Owen Riegling and I thought what a great description of the hunting/fishing grounds of a mink. Because of their appetite for fish, birds,...

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"WHILE PARENTS ARE STILL SLEEPING" - Beaver (North American)

June 03, 2024 • Leave a Comment

"WHILE PARENTS ARE STILL SLEEPING" Beaver (North American) - 5 Photos The photos that follow are of one of two younger beavers, probably 2 years old by now and probably the youngest in the family, depending upon any recent arrivals. So like all youngsters, they probably like to stay out late or in this case, go out early during the last of dayl...

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"EARNING OUR WINGS" - Great Horned Owlet

June 01, 2024 • 1 Comment

"EARNING OUR WINGS" Great Horned Owlet - 9 Photos Now that this owlet has fledged, it will be a few more months before he/she has acquired all the necessary flying skills to enable it to successfully navigate the surroundings woods & master hunting for prey. But until then, here are some photos of "baby's first steps" as the owlet managed the c...

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