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"A CANADIAN FAMILY" - Beaver (North American)

July 01, 2024 • 1 Comment

"A CANADIAN FAMILY" Beaver (North American) - 9 Photos The beaver is Canada's National Animal and appears on the nickel. One may ask why Canada would choose a rodent to represent our country. Past history aside, there are many endearing attributes which could nominate the beaver & family members as "Canada's First Family". Beavers are hard...

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"DOUBLE P" - Porcupine (North American)

June 27, 2024 • 1 Comment

"DOUBLE P" Porcupine (North American) - 4 Photos Now to put this delicately as possible, the porcupine in the following photos, appears to have gone from an "A Cup" to a Double D, which would make this porcupine a female and a Double P, i.e. Pregnant Porcupine.:) (N.B. Photos were taken late May 2024.) Photo #2 is a close up of Photo #1, w...

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"GOLDEN YEARS" - White-Tailed Deer

June 24, 2024 • Leave a Comment

"GOLDEN YEARS" White-Tailed Deer (Doe & Youngster) - 7 Photos These were two White-Tailed Deer of a grouping of five, walking through a small cut out creek from the river, enjoying the lush greenery, water access & for the youngster, a quick splash or two. All the deer seemed to appreciate the cool water and the brief walk before heading up the...

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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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