Merry Christmas From Birds Calgary!

Snow Angels. Posted by Bob Lefebvre

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Snow Angel, Inglewood Golf Course, December 14, 2019. Photo by Kathleen Johnson.

During the recent Calgary Christmas Bird Count, we saw an amazing number of animal tracks in the fresh snow on the Inglewood Golf Course. But the most extraordinary tracks were these wing impressions (sometimes called snow angels) left by some of the local Bald Eagles as they skimmed low over the snow.

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Photo by Kathleen Johnson.

In two places we saw a series of over twenty of these in a row, where an eagle had taken off from the ground or a low perch and flew across the open fairway, leaving an impression with every wingstroke, usually with impressions of the feet between the wing prints as well.

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Some of the prints were over five feet across, despite the wings not being fully extended. Photo by Kathleen Johnson.
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Bob pointing to talon impressions. Photo by Kathleen Johnson.
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Photo by Bob Lefebvre
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Photo by Matthew Wallace

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