Our weather is very odd for this time of year? Normally by this time of year we are having tremendous bouts of rain but we haven’t had any rain to …
GHOST EAGLE
Amazing sunset eagle photos from Wayne at Tofino Photography. Wayne has wonderful wildlife photos on his blog.
I saw this rather intricate web on top of a bush.
There were lots of bits of leaves and other detritus caught in it, but I didn’t see anything a spider would want to eat.
It’s possible that’s this is the work of spider mites (they actually eat the plants they live on) but I don’t think so. The bush seems to be healthy and growing and the web strands seem much too large to be the work of tiny mites.
Happy Friday.
Ever been in a place and wondered how you got there?
Out of Place
I very much like this post from Don at Snapshots of My World. Please stop by his blog to view his many atmospheric photos.
Quail are ubiquitous here in the Okanagan Valley. I often see them racing around, their cute little comma-shaped head feathers arriving ahead of them.
Although they can fly, they are amazingly fast runners and when chicks are nearby, the adults will suddenly burst into flight, distracting potential predators away from the little ones.
They are extremely social and live in family groups of 20 or more birds. They don’t migrate for the winter but will congregate in coveys of up to 100 birds to keep warm since at 25 cm, (10 inches) they are very small.
They are portrayed extensively on the art work of this area and there’s even a winery named after them.
Greetings from the quail of the Okanagan Valley!
A gaggle of purple wild flowers …
… growing in the sun.
A northern summer sunset at 0200 underscores the tremendous beauty and diversity of our world.
Happy Wednesday.
I love the look of these shiny new leaves!
Our weather has been fantastic (and so far, mostly bugless!).
Ain’t spring grand?
Chokecherry blossoms
Beautiful blossoms from Vova Zinger. For more of his gorgeous photography, be sure to stop by his blog.
Whooping cranes migrate between the southern edge of the Northwest Territories and Texas. They travel a very long way!
These birds are often difficult to photograph as they are very shy and possessed of excellent hearing, so they are usually gone before you know they have been nearby. Generally, they just are not very gregarious; they like to keep to themselves in their pair bonds. Their nests are about five kilometres (three miles) apart from those of other cranes.
There are only about 500 whooping cranes in the wild, they migrate each year between wintering grounds at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas and their breeding grounds in Wood Buffalo National Park near Fort Smith, NWT.
Their numbers are very slowly improving after dropping to about 25 birds in the 1940s; their survival and growth has been helped along by protections that exist in both Northwest Territories and Texas.
Happy mid-week.
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