A few random photos I took over the weekend. (Click for full size).
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Great pics. Love rural landscapes.
Very beautiful. You have a good eye and considerable skill. Thank you.
Agreed. I envy the wildlife and natural environment around Kate’s place. Are there no fences in rural Sask.? Wouldn’t fences inhibit moose migration and movement?
Only pasture land is fenced, as a rule.
Just penning in the non-Native livestock. Makes eminent sense to leave the wide open spaces … wide … and open. Thank you Canadian farmers.
But … the native species don’t graze on the crops?
Since we moved to the farm in 1994 we have witnessed ample deer, turkeys, coyote and so forth. Even bald eagles. I wish some folks who are so concerned about the environment would get out of the city and see it close up
I wish they weren’t allowed out of the cities. The best thing about cities is that they attract so many people who would otherwise be cluttering up the rural areas and wilderness.
How can anything as jugheaded and homely as a little moose be so sweet and cute? Great pictures
Love the mouse pic as well.
Incredible photos Kate, thanks for sharing.
Only thing you missed is a Maple Leaf. Out on the golf course that is, but a woke GM and a nice young lady in charge of player development is so nice but at least they got to participate
I will let you in on a secret Terry….there are no Maple trees in Saskatchewan, so no Maple Leaf pictures. There are some Manitoba Maples, but they are not the same.
Kate, where did you see the moose and calf? Used to be there were no moose south of PA, but now they have migrated much further south.
The moose are common now across southern Sask, these were in the SE corner near Wordsworth.
Toronto Maple Leafs twit.I have forgot more about Sask than you will ever know.
C’mon Terry!! I’ve often seen this expression, but I highly doubt it can be in any way complimentary. Boasting about about your mental recall/defects is missing the boat entirely. Take a different tact.
There, I feel better now.
Very nice, Kate; thank you.
I drove from Edmonton to Fort St. John yesterday and I saw a lot of similar scenes along the way. That, plus listening to Channel 76/Symphony Hall on SiriusXM, made for quite a pleasant trip.
One of the more interesting things I saw was a field near Beaverlodge. At first glance, I thought that was where someone kept a lot of construction equipment, which just happened to be parked there. Then I looked a bit more closely and saw that there were elk (at least I think they were elk) feeding at various places, making me wonder if someone’s keeping a domestic herd.
I like the second to last one and the ones with the moose.
Kate,
I haven’t seen a Yellow headed blackbird since I left Eastern Alberta.
That made me nostalgic for the subtle beauty of prairie places, including the moose.
We had our share of Moose adventures back in the day, including Missy, who regularly licked the salt and other build up off of our truck.
The dogs went wild till she charged one day.
Thank for the photos of places I know and love, as you do.
Those bulls are solid as cement silos
Beautiful! I have seen some American Goldfinch on the trail close to my house these days, when I head North. We have some Cooper’s Hawks across the road on a small forested area, and along the trail heading North as well. There is a Bald Eagle nest on the South side of the trail, surprisingly at the edge of a small industrial area. There are Blue Herons, too, an attention grabber to our Border Colie. But the most striking memory of all the birds I’ve seen in our cozy trail was this yet unidentified owl species swooping over my bright orange touque-covered head at a twilighty 6 AM winter morning! Sight to behold. Sorry, no picture of any of these. Beautiful British Columbia (while it lasts)
Really nice pictures. Many thanks.
Normally, where I live, we usually have urban crows and local seagulls, which my toy breed dog loves to harass, but this spring, there have been Canada geese who have become sort of a too early alarm clock in the morning, squawking like crazy. Some must have had nests nearby, hopefully not on the roof, as the crows and seagulls seem to be AWAL, not that I miss the crows.
Sorry, no pictures, as I do not sleep with a cell phone or camera …. Even the dog did not bother to wake up and ask to chase. Of course, I normally keep her away from geese, as they can be nasty, especially in spring.
That said, I have enjoyed Canada geese families using urban crosswalks! Cars stop and let them pass.
That said, I have enjoyed Canada geese families using urban crosswalks! Cars stop and let them pass.
I saw something like that on my trip back to Edmonton from my house in B. C. 3 weeks ago.
I was on the highway leaving Whitecourt, Alberta when it happened. The lights had changed colour and traffic started moving when a young coyote (either that or maybe a fox) tried to cross some distance past the intersection.
The critter was partway across my side of the highway when it saw the traffic coming in its direction. It wondered whether to go to the strip between the lanes or turn back. When it saw that traffic on both sides had stopped, it bounded across to the other side, probably grateful that it had a narrow escape.
Moose moose
Bull bull
Loon loon
Seems like there is a political message in there somewhere ;=)
You have a great eye, Kate. Wonderful photos!
Kate you little rascal.
A wild life photographer all this time and just now letting us know?
I’m on my 4th point and shoot camera since 2004.
An HP, my Red Canon, my Black Canon, and now my Panasonic.
I’ve taken probably 50000 to 60000 plus pics over the years. Not all wild life of course, some are car shows.
A lot are not much but every once in awhile I always catch a gem.
Where we are, we’ve got all the usual deer moose, elk, bears and the occasional cougar that apparently comes south from the N Sask River about 30 mi away. Never got one on camera yet.
My visiting Sis was washing dishes at our north facing sink one am and was surprised to see a doe and her 2 young ones standing at entrance to our back yard about 50 ft from the house.
Another time a doe had her 2 young ones in the bush on the south side of our drive way and she paraded them thru our back yard when we were having breakfast by the patio window. It was as though to say thank you for not bothering them. We did not have a dog at that time.
Birds? We feed them and our hummer came early this yr on May 17, not the usual May20 or later. We know it’s ours because it comes to our patio sliding doors and goes up and down them looking for the feeder we have there all summer. What a remarkable tough little bird they are! One dry yr with no flowers, we had to put up 2 feeders and we actually had 8 hummers sitting feeding all at the same time.
We have about a 15 ac slew on the SW corner of our land and so we have all the water birds also.
I did get some good pics of a pelican colony about 3 mi from us.
I could ramble on and on (the bears, the fighter jet, whadda ya mean that’s not wild life?) the etc, etc.
It’s great to see that there are lots of nature lovers everywhere.
And people wonder why we left the big ciddy?
Cheers
Great pics. Love rural landscapes.
Very beautiful. You have a good eye and considerable skill. Thank you.
Agreed. I envy the wildlife and natural environment around Kate’s place. Are there no fences in rural Sask.? Wouldn’t fences inhibit moose migration and movement?
Only pasture land is fenced, as a rule.
Just penning in the non-Native livestock. Makes eminent sense to leave the wide open spaces … wide … and open. Thank you Canadian farmers.
But … the native species don’t graze on the crops?
Since we moved to the farm in 1994 we have witnessed ample deer, turkeys, coyote and so forth. Even bald eagles. I wish some folks who are so concerned about the environment would get out of the city and see it close up
I wish they weren’t allowed out of the cities. The best thing about cities is that they attract so many people who would otherwise be cluttering up the rural areas and wilderness.
How can anything as jugheaded and homely as a little moose be so sweet and cute? Great pictures
Love the mouse pic as well.
Incredible photos Kate, thanks for sharing.
Only thing you missed is a Maple Leaf. Out on the golf course that is, but a woke GM and a nice young lady in charge of player development is so nice but at least they got to participate
I will let you in on a secret Terry….there are no Maple trees in Saskatchewan, so no Maple Leaf pictures. There are some Manitoba Maples, but they are not the same.
Kate, where did you see the moose and calf? Used to be there were no moose south of PA, but now they have migrated much further south.
The moose are common now across southern Sask, these were in the SE corner near Wordsworth.
Toronto Maple Leafs twit.I have forgot more about Sask than you will ever know.
C’mon Terry!! I’ve often seen this expression, but I highly doubt it can be in any way complimentary. Boasting about about your mental recall/defects is missing the boat entirely. Take a different tact.
There, I feel better now.
Very nice, Kate; thank you.
I drove from Edmonton to Fort St. John yesterday and I saw a lot of similar scenes along the way. That, plus listening to Channel 76/Symphony Hall on SiriusXM, made for quite a pleasant trip.
One of the more interesting things I saw was a field near Beaverlodge. At first glance, I thought that was where someone kept a lot of construction equipment, which just happened to be parked there. Then I looked a bit more closely and saw that there were elk (at least I think they were elk) feeding at various places, making me wonder if someone’s keeping a domestic herd.
I like the second to last one and the ones with the moose.
Kate,
I haven’t seen a Yellow headed blackbird since I left Eastern Alberta.
That made me nostalgic for the subtle beauty of prairie places, including the moose.
We had our share of Moose adventures back in the day, including Missy, who regularly licked the salt and other build up off of our truck.
The dogs went wild till she charged one day.
Thank for the photos of places I know and love, as you do.
Those bulls are solid as cement silos
Beautiful! I have seen some American Goldfinch on the trail close to my house these days, when I head North. We have some Cooper’s Hawks across the road on a small forested area, and along the trail heading North as well. There is a Bald Eagle nest on the South side of the trail, surprisingly at the edge of a small industrial area. There are Blue Herons, too, an attention grabber to our Border Colie. But the most striking memory of all the birds I’ve seen in our cozy trail was this yet unidentified owl species swooping over my bright orange touque-covered head at a twilighty 6 AM winter morning! Sight to behold. Sorry, no picture of any of these. Beautiful British Columbia (while it lasts)
Really nice pictures. Many thanks.
Normally, where I live, we usually have urban crows and local seagulls, which my toy breed dog loves to harass, but this spring, there have been Canada geese who have become sort of a too early alarm clock in the morning, squawking like crazy. Some must have had nests nearby, hopefully not on the roof, as the crows and seagulls seem to be AWAL, not that I miss the crows.
Sorry, no pictures, as I do not sleep with a cell phone or camera …. Even the dog did not bother to wake up and ask to chase. Of course, I normally keep her away from geese, as they can be nasty, especially in spring.
That said, I have enjoyed Canada geese families using urban crosswalks! Cars stop and let them pass.
That said, I have enjoyed Canada geese families using urban crosswalks! Cars stop and let them pass.
I saw something like that on my trip back to Edmonton from my house in B. C. 3 weeks ago.
I was on the highway leaving Whitecourt, Alberta when it happened. The lights had changed colour and traffic started moving when a young coyote (either that or maybe a fox) tried to cross some distance past the intersection.
The critter was partway across my side of the highway when it saw the traffic coming in its direction. It wondered whether to go to the strip between the lanes or turn back. When it saw that traffic on both sides had stopped, it bounded across to the other side, probably grateful that it had a narrow escape.
Moose moose
Bull bull
Loon loon
Seems like there is a political message in there somewhere ;=)
You have a great eye, Kate. Wonderful photos!
Kate you little rascal.
A wild life photographer all this time and just now letting us know?
I’m on my 4th point and shoot camera since 2004.
An HP, my Red Canon, my Black Canon, and now my Panasonic.
I’ve taken probably 50000 to 60000 plus pics over the years. Not all wild life of course, some are car shows.
A lot are not much but every once in awhile I always catch a gem.
Where we are, we’ve got all the usual deer moose, elk, bears and the occasional cougar that apparently comes south from the N Sask River about 30 mi away. Never got one on camera yet.
My visiting Sis was washing dishes at our north facing sink one am and was surprised to see a doe and her 2 young ones standing at entrance to our back yard about 50 ft from the house.
Another time a doe had her 2 young ones in the bush on the south side of our drive way and she paraded them thru our back yard when we were having breakfast by the patio window. It was as though to say thank you for not bothering them. We did not have a dog at that time.
Birds? We feed them and our hummer came early this yr on May 17, not the usual May20 or later. We know it’s ours because it comes to our patio sliding doors and goes up and down them looking for the feeder we have there all summer. What a remarkable tough little bird they are! One dry yr with no flowers, we had to put up 2 feeders and we actually had 8 hummers sitting feeding all at the same time.
We have about a 15 ac slew on the SW corner of our land and so we have all the water birds also.
I did get some good pics of a pelican colony about 3 mi from us.
I could ramble on and on (the bears, the fighter jet, whadda ya mean that’s not wild life?) the etc, etc.
It’s great to see that there are lots of nature lovers everywhere.
And people wonder why we left the big ciddy?
Cheers
I like the photos of gooses and mooses.