#BumbleBee #Bee #Insect #AppleBlossom #Calgary #Alberta #Canada A good day for bumble bees. Out of 163 I got eleven keepers these are the best four.

#BumbleBee #Bee #Insect #AppleBlossom #Calgary #Alberta #Canada #Politics #UCP #DanielleSmith Never ask a bumble bee what he thinks of Alberta politics in general and Danielle Smith in particular. This one just turned showed me his rear and took off. Point taken.

Breaking news. UCP committee votes to hijack Forever Canadian petition. Smith to outline UCP plan in tonight’s speech. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@ctheriault.bsky.social @duanebratt.bsky.social

Would this prevent the question from moving forward to a referendum? Since it isn't official yet. "A citizen initiative petition may be withdrawn at any time by the proponent by giving a written notice to the Chief Electoral Officer." www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi... #Alberta #abpoli #ableg

Danielle Smith now has a Cabinet management problem. Two ministers, Jones and Horner, object to the UCP party/government being the proponent/instigator of a referendum question on separatism. They’re not separatists. Any bets on how long they’ll last in Cabinet? I give them one day. #ableg

It's the Victoria Day weekend in Calgary. 🤣 Oh well, at least it's not sticking.

🪶 #Birds #Owl #NorthernPygmyOwl #Parksville #B.C. #Canada Northern Pygmy Owl

Flashback Friday to 2014. A black and white image of the British Columbia legislature at night with a Victoria double-decker tour bus in colour.

Reposting a very important post.

This was published by Smith’s lapdog Rick Bell two days ago. Why aren’t other news sources covering it? We’ve known for a while Smith favours an independent Alberta this is just more fuel for the fire. Albertans should be outraged! calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

#Artemis #DesktopWallpaper #Splashdown Artemis splashdown 2560 x 1440 pixels (16:9)

An excellent read, please share. factsmtr.substack.com/p/getting-le...

Nenshi flipped the script on Smith today! He took his question straight from her from back in 2014 when Smith was demanding better from Redford and condemning an entitled premier destroying public trust! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

In honor of St. Patrick's day something will a bit of Canadian green in it. A Canadian Pacific freight and Morant's Curve, Banff National Park.

Vaccines save lives. That’s it. That’s the post.

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: ​Canada’s government MUST enforce the Canada Health Act!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/cana...

#Squirrel #Chickadee #cold #winter #humour Squirrel: Whoa, what did you do to your hair? Chickadee: I washed it this morning and I can't do a damned thing with it.

Something to take your minds off all the current disgusting behaviour of certain politicians both north and south of the border. It’s not a cute little bird like I’ve posted previously but I hope you like. Description in the ALT Text.

🪶 #birds #Chickadee #Cold #Calgary #Canada Chickadee all fluffed up to keep warm at -20°C. If you look closely you can see he has a sunflower seed between his feet.

🪶 #Birds #Magpies #RimeIce #Corvids #Calgary #Alberta Numerous magpies gather in rime ice covered tree. Can you count how many there are? Look really closely some are hidden within the branches. 🙂

🪶 #Birds #Magpies #RimeIce #Frost #Calgary Is there a casting call for a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds?

Calgarians are currently living in a monochromatic world. Hoar frost or rime ice makes for a very different look to the world.

As we enter into the politically murky unknown of 2026 we really have no idea what lies ahead. The traffic lights seem to indicate go, do we take that as a good sign or a bad one? I think we take the plunge and move ahead and take whatever lies in the future head on.

Happy New Year to everyone. I hope you all have great 2026.

Conservatives don’t govern, they loot. Remember that the next time you vote.

#christmastime #christmas #photography #festivelights Merry Christmas to all from the penguins at the Calgary Zoo

🪶 #Birds #Sparrows #HouseSparrows #Hedge #Calgary #Alberta #Canada A group of resident house sparrows in a snow covered hedge catching warming sunshine at -15°C

🪶 #Birds #Nuthatch #RedBreastedNuthatch #Alberta #Canada #Calgary Red Breasted Nuthatch looking snacks under the bark of a spruce tree.

#Calgary #Snow #roads Good morning Calgary, welcome our first significant snowfall. Drive carefully y'all.

🪶 #Birds #Housefinch #male #Finch #Alberta #Canada #Calgary A male house finch looking directly at the camera giving it a slightly haughty cross-eyed look. 🙂

#UCP #AlbertaGovernment #kakistocracy No English-language description of government is harsher or more comprehensive than "kakistocracy" for signifying the presence of the utterly unfit at the helm. But when describing Smith and the UCP it just doesn't seem harsh enough.

Calgary's changeable weather. At 7:00 this morning it was like photo on the left. At 8:15 it was like the one on the right.

🪶 #Birds #BaldEagle #Canada #BritishColumbia #PortAlberni Bald Eagle perched in dead spruce tree at Victoria Quay in Port Alberni, B.C. Canada. A great shot but not the greatest image due to distance and high noise.

After months of construction delays Market Mall is going to be getting a new restaurant soon. Enoteca Monza will be opening their first restaurant outside Quebec.

Understand: Teachers are fighting for funding to SAFEGUARD effective public education for ALL. 2 Billion is what the safeguards cost. BECAUSE #UCP has neglected & deliberately underfunded public education while siphoning tax $ into private schools for the FEW. #ableg #abpoli #abed #PubEdu

It is World Teachers’ Day. The theme this year is advancing the teaching profession through empowerment, support, and collaboration. A theme Alberta has forgotten #redfored

There's a photo of a young boy circulating on #UCP social media accounts. The caption on the post says a boy's parents were lost to addiction; got help with treatment & recovery. The mom of the boy in the photo says the caption information is not true. #Propaganda #AbPoli www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

@naheednenshi.bsky.social and the Alberta NDP get your act together. Your messaging needs to be much, much better.

#Photography #Birds #BaldEagle #Bears #Fish #Salmon #VictoriaQuay #PortAlberni #VancouverIsland Visited Victoria Quay last evening and came away with two keepers. A Bald eagle posed nicely in a tree for me and a bear plus cub grab a salmon while a Turkey vulture arrives on scene hoping for scraps

For someone who is forever telling others to say in their lane Ms. Smith does an awful lot of lane wandering.

🪶 #Birds #GreatBlueHeron #FishHatchery #BigQualicumFishHatchery #VancouverIsland #Canada Great Blue Heron standing on a wall waiting for just the right sized returning salmon to swim past.

🪶 #Birds #Sunrise #CanadaGeese #Geese #Parksville #HighTide #VancouverIsland Morning flight of Canada Geese just after sunrise over Parksville Bay, Vancouver Island

🪶 #Birds #Photography #Heron #CanadaGoose #Canada #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia Canada Goose in low level flight along the shore of Parksville Bay, Parksville B.C.

🪶 #Birds #Photography #Heron #GreatBlueHeron #Canada #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia A shortly after sunrise shot of a Great Blue Heron as it flew by at low level.

#Sunset #Panorama #Parksville #Photography #VancouverIsland #CANADA A five image 3 x 1 ratio panorama of the golden sunset in Parksville on Vancouver Island, B.C. The original will print 12" by 36" should it ever be printed.