June 28, 2009 Hmm... I guess I missed the rhodos in manning park...
June 28, 2009 Ok not all of them. Pacific Rhodo in Manning Park.
June 28, 2009 A rather happy looking Scarecrow in Hedley, BC
June 28, 2009 View from the hwy 3 lookout - looking back over Osoyoos.
June 28, 2009 Caterpillar at Boundary Creek Prov Park on lunch break
June 29, 2009 Me and Meg in a cracked rock on the Old Growth Forestry trail on the east side of Kootany Lake.
June 29, 2009 Bridge over a large creek on the Old growth Trail.
June 29, 2009 An old growth red cedar on the trail (I got in it for scale)
June 29, 2009 A big cracked boulder on the road up to the old growth trail.
A cliff outside of Hedley - if you look way up on the top left there is an old gold mine.
Osprey chick in a nest on a pole in Kootenay lake - taken from the ferry.
The little carved man in Yahk BC that spooked the dog. It was about 3 feet tall and she was growling at him.
Where am I? Taken behind the Goats on the Roof feature.
A goat. In Yahk BC. Decidedly not on the roof.
Just into Alberta - Rockies in the background, wind turbines along the hill. Taken between Frank and Ft. Mcleod.
Prairie falcon nest (and some cliff swallow nests in the glare) on the underside of Head-smashed-in Buffalo jump near Ft. McLeod AB
A really bad picture of a juvenile prairie falcon - I spotted this without my long lens and no time to go back for it.
The view from Head-Smashed-in buffalo jump. The camp site is just to the right of center, looking down over the kill site.
First Campsite! Old Man River provincial rec area. Essentially a pullout from the highway by the river.
A flower in Ft. Mcleod
Gray Catbird singing in the Ft. McLeod wilderness park.
Robin in the same park.
Mario the Burrowing owl at the Alberta Birds of Prey center.
Mario again (Burrowing Owl)
A dark morph Ferruginous Hawk. Stunning bird.
Normal morph Ferruginous in a pen. Excuse the wire blurs.
Same Ferruginous as last pic.
Great Grey owl.
One of the breeding burrowing owls in its artificial burrow.
Harris Hawk landing at the demo.
American Avocet in a roadside bit of wetland down the road from George's Alberta farm
Willet in flight near George's farm in AB
American Avocet, same locale
Trail at campsite number two - Traver's Dam provincial rec area.
Traver's Dam reservoir from the range land
The campsite bordered on some range land. The dog and I took a walk in the evening.
Cow looking at us over a hill. (You might need to zoom in)
Cow on the horizon, same range land.
Another cow... These look better big.
Cows on the horizon, gully in the fore.
Coyote we spooked on the range. He tried to follow us for a ways after.
Flowering cactus! I didn't even know they had cactus in Alberta.
Eastern Kingbird beside my campground.
Campsite number two - my bald prairie site. I should have taken the hint from the clouds and slept in the truck....
Stars - I couldn't really wait for it to get darker, the moon was coming out and it was freezing. A darkened shot taken in Cypress hills, SK
hmm.. I can see the big dipper on my monitor... More stars in Cypress hills.
Baldy - we followed some cow trails up to the top - Meg did it twice. Cypress hills SK
Wild Ferruginous hawk in Cypress hills. He was lower but in the two min it took to change to a long lens he had thermal-ed up to a near speck.
American White Pelicans in flight over Cypress hills SK. There was a lake on the AB side they were hanging out in.
Meg on the top of a hill in Cypress hills. Baldy was about the same height.
Swallowtail butterfly having a drink by the river the dog was drinking out of. Cypress Hills SK
Close up, same bug.
Another butterfly, same place.
Joined by another...
Two at the watering hole - when we came down we spooked about 6-7. Waiting around and these two came back.
Cows blocking the way to Fort Walsh. They had a go chasing Meg. Some of them were the heifers I had to chase away from my tent in the morning.
Interior of the head honcho's house/office at Ft Walsh national historic site. Cypress hills SK. Love the grizzley skin.
Outside of the same building.
Jailhouse - occasionally two would share a cell which was about 6'X4'. Ft Walsh SK
Some of our tour accused of various crimes in Court. They were given parts to read and the mountie was in character.
Artillery at Ft Walsh. I heard it go off on my walk over from the campsite, but the guy didn't want to haul it outside again so we didnt get to see it.
Barracks - beds are planks with a buffalo skin. Not much padding!
Games room/Kitchen in the barracks building.
Metis cart - the rawhide wrapping prolonged the wheels, it lasted a whole 35 miles. No grease was applied to the axel etc so you could hear them squealing a mile away.
Ft Walsh from the top of the hill.
My view from campsite three. The equestrian campground in Cypress hills SK. I stayed in the stock trailer yard as it was a bit crowded. I didn't think til the morning that it was outside the cattle guards...
My campsite 3. Being from the mountians I would have put the site on the top of the hill.. but prairie campers want trees.
Calves on the way to Conglomerate cliffs in Cypress Hills SK
The view from Conglomerate Cliffs, cypress hills SK
One for mom - finally got a picture of one of the many Meadowlarks all over southern AB. This was one of the few in Cypress hills.
Entering the Cypress Hills park proper from the AB side, the lake is visible to the right behind the trees and hill.
Where the campsite should have been in Cypress hills SK
A bad shot of a group of elk taken from a moving car as they dashed across the road and cleared the cattle fence by a few feet!
Wild ferrug I spooked off a phone pole taking pics. Very south western corner of SK
same hawk.
It caught a thermal over the road and soared around for a bit.
The farm I was looking at when the cop decided to pull me over for crossing the center line too often... "I'm from the mountains, we don't have this sort of scenery!"
Meg on the Great Sandhills SK
The great sand hills and a bit of the scrub keeping the rest of it from turning into more hills. Meg picked up a cactus on her foot in some of that stuff
footprints in the hills
A House wren made its nest in a boot - There was a long plank with cowboy boots nailed all over it. Sandhills SK
White-tailed deer in canola
American White Pelican in a pond after the worst Campsite I stayed at, also where I left the dog chain... South of Kinnibrook island provincial park
Big horned sheep and lamb on the side of the road in Kananaskis country AB
Chewing.
And back out onto the road... Big horned sheep lamb
On the road
I must be on the right way - theres an inookshook! Interlakes campground in Kananaskis country. I headed back shortly after this to shelter from an on coming thunderstorm.
The next day was wet and cold. Just ask Meg. We spent most of it in the back of the truck sleeping and reading.
It got sunny when we decided to leave. The mountains behind our campsite, view from the upper lake.
Coyote at the Kamloops wild animal park.
Captive lynx in Kamloops
Captive Cougar in Kamloops
Same cougar. I guess I wasn't very interesting
Turkey Vulture in the Kamloops Wild animal park flying demo
Barn owl in the flying demo. The bark has a buzzer under it to show how they can hunt by sound.
