🪶 #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.

Important information to counter the constant stream of disinformation from Danielle Smith and the UCP.

Danielle Smith’s “citizenship ID” isn’t about elections. It’s about division and discrimination. 📰 r.pebmac.ca/https://www.... #SaveTheCBC

#Sunrise #WestCoast #VancouverIsland #Photography #Canada A little peace and beauty in today’s chaotic world. Four different views of this morning’s sunrise in Parksville, British Columbia.

My people will never permit any annexation of lands to anyone. 🪶😡

Absolutely this. Far too many of us these days seem to be only interested it what benefits them.

#Sunset #WestCoast #VancouverIsland #Parksville #Photography Another golden sunset in Parksville. How many of us can imagine ourselves as the couple sitting on the log?

#Photography #Fungi #VancouverIsland #Mushrooms Fungi in the Heritage Forest, Qualicum Beach, B.C. Any help in identifying would be appreciated.

#Photography #Sunset #WestCoast #Panorama #Parksville #VancouverIsland Reds and oranges stand out in a stunning sunset panorama taken in Parksville, British Columbia, Canada.

#Sunset #WestCoast #VancouverIsland #Parksville #Photography Golden sunset over Parkville Bay, Vancouver Island, BC

Please read and repost, it’s important, really important.

Please don’t fall for any of the UCP messages about fiscal prudence and responsibility: they have none

Good morning, #ableg Book banning is fascist. Period. Have a lovely day.

#kakistocracy #government #Alberta Kakistocracy is government by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous people. Does the above remind anyone of who this might be, here in Alberta.

#Hawaii #Maui #Photograph #Haleakala A blast from the past, a place I will never get to see again. Haleakalā depression, Maui, Hawaii 2008 Haleakalā has a massive summit-area depression, which is a large erosional depression, often called a crater, formed by erosion rather than a volcanic explosion.

He looks sick, old, tired and worn out. Still, I can't say I feel sorry for him.

I know this asshole is going to win but I hope it is by the slimmest of margins.

A sad day at our house. Our birch tree one side has died and the other is dying. So today we had someone make it go away. 😢

I found a hood but couldn't see a monk anywhere.

Danielle Smith once again shows how hypocritical she is. No to renewable energy in Alberta but 100% Oil & Gas. However Carney needs to diversify Canada’s economy. SMH www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

Let this sink in!

#Flowers #bumblebee #photography #photographer #naturephotography #insectphotography #pollinators #SaveTheBees Incoming and outgoing.