Posted by Bob Lefebvre
Last month when I was out looking for Snowy Owls, I came across this Merlin feeding on a European Starling.
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Sunday Showcase: Young Bald Eagle
Rob English saw this immature Bald Eagle in Hull’s Wood, Fish Creek Park, in early February. It got a little tangled up in the branches as it lifted off.
Wednesday Wings: Waterton Park Birds
Photos from Marg Matheson and Alan Plumb. Thanks for sending these beautiful shots, folks!
The bills on these Evening Grosbeaks are just starting to turn green. They change from the bone colour of winter to a deciduous-bud green in early spring.
This beautiful gray Gyrfalcon was seen just west of Fort Macleod.
Normally thought of as living only in British Columbia, the range of the Chestnut-backed Chickadee does extend – just barely – into southwestern Alberta.
Sunday Showcase: Eagle Dispute
Rob English caught these two Bald Eagles, an immature and an adult, having a dispute over a perch.
Sunday Showcase: Leucistic Mallard
Rob English photographed this leucistic Mallard in Beaverdam Flats in mid-February. This might be the same duck seen in the same area last winter.
Sunday Showcase: Great Grays of Grand Valley Road
Grand Valley Road northwest of Cochrane has been a really good place to find Great Gray Owls. Logan Gibson photographed this one while it was snowing on February 25:
On March 2, Brett Mahura found three different Great Grays on Grand Valley Road:
Furry Friday: Porcupine
This North American Porcupine was spotted feeding on a Water Birch on the Inglewood Golf Course during the Calgary Christmas Bird Count on December 16, 2012.
Photo by Troy Bourque
Photo by Ian Neilson
Photo by Ian Neilson
Photo by Troy Bourque
Sunday Showcase: Bald Eagle Fledgling
Rob English got these photos of a recently fledged Bald Eagle in Carburn Park in early August 2012. Â The bird had just recently left the nest across the river.
There was one of the adult eagles with this young one:
Sunday Showcase: Snow Bunting
Michael Pott saw this Snow Bunting posing nicely on a fence post on Dunbow Road last week, just SE of the city. These birds are usually seen in here in the winter in large flocks, in open rural areas.
Wednesday Wings: More Snowies!
Snowy Owls photographed north of Strathmore in early January by Rob English.
