Common Redpoll
Redpolls spend their winters in Saskatchewan and Eastern Canada before making their way to the far north for the summer.
Pine Grosbeak
Female Pine Grosbeak
Mama
This cow moose was laying down after a likely long feeding session during the night. Her calf is not far away browsing on leaves and twigs.
Wire
Canadian Beaver
Timber
Buildings such as this on the prairies were once a necessity to hold food for cattle are now succumbing to the forces of nature. They still provide shelter for a variety of birds and animals.
Bald Eagle
Immature Bald Eagle
House Wren
Taken last year in the spring, this nest made up of cattail fuzz and such looks nice and comfy.
Happy Valentines
red roses and a little photoshop
the Fox
This red Fox is finishing what is left of a rabbit and is not intent on sharing....With temperatures in the -30's it is hard on all animals...Although it is not long after the kill , his meal is frozen solid....
Redpolls
The redpolls are starting to return to Saskatchewan albeit the extreme cold we are experiencing. This is a shot from a. few years ago that I have always liked. the out of focus is as a result of DOF settings not PP.
Ice
-40C and ice crystals form instantly almost anywhere. This one on a window.
Fruit/Citrus Plate
A Bowl full of colour
Marbles in a candy dish
Staying Warm
Fire is burning in the wood stove keeping us warm.
Harris's Sparrow
Prairie Slough
A prairie slough typical in the region called Thickwood Hills. Trees have been cut (int he winter) for firewood.
Whitetail
Captured the other day while snowshoeing a doe has some trouble with the deep snow.
Sentinels
The town of Blaine Lake used to have 6 grain elevators as did many other prairie towns. The mural, which keeping that part of our history alive is painted on the towns hockey arena.
Morning Light
An abandoned house in the morning light.
The Workbench
An old workshop sits idle but remnants of tools and old pieces of iron suggest that this was once the area where its owner made all the required repairs to his machinery for the family farm....
Frozen Birch
Temperature on this day was -38C. Temperatures drop drastically when the sky is clear all night as there is no insulation from the clouds to hold the earths heat in. Cameras will work in these conditions its the humans who have to hold their breath while composing until shutter release.
Male Pine Grosbeak
Master
This barb wire fence was keeping a key for its owner. Weather was doing its work and forming rust on the wire.
The Gum Wall
A short walk down from Pikes Market sits an unusual sight....People have been depositing their used gum here for years..It is estimated millions of pieces of gum have been stuck to this wall over the years. It was steam cleaned in recent years but I suspect that the sticky process has started all over again?
WInter Morning
