Summer is done and fall has begun and out on the prairie it\u0027s beginning to show.
A nip of cold on the fingertips, a tingle on poorly shod toes. Wisps of mist hovering by ponds and another just inches in front of your nose.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
Still couldn’t see enough of them with a foreground I liked from the summit, either, so I crossed over and headed down toward Mazeppa. Finally, the sun now fully risen and the colour beginning to fade, I stopped at the first open area I came to and aimed the camera across the stubble fields toward the peaks.
Usually, I see them off in a field somewhere or around a wetland but these ones were in a stand of trees bisected by the road and they were unconcerned that I had stopped to take some pictures. Several of them dropped down to peck around in the gravel while others sat and preened among the rattling leaves. In the morning light, their iridescent feathers shimmered with spectral colours and their bright eyes sparkled.
A lone tundra swan swims with Canada and white-fronted geese at Clear Lake east of Stavely, Ab., on Tuesday, September 20, 2022.It’s a great place to see birds and there were plenty there. Canada and white-fronted geese wandered in the shallows — along with a single tundra swan — while mallards and teal, pintails and shoveler ducks swam among them. Out on the main lake, hundreds of coots paddled around while herons hunted along the shore and cliff swallows chased bugs in the air.
Naturally, I had to get down close to it so I headed to another roadside slough not much further along. These were starlings, hundreds of them, flying around the edges of a big, dry slough and landing on power lines and among oblivious cattle relaxing in a pasture. I would have loved to get a bit closer for a picture of one of them. Though they aren’t native and don’t belong here and they take up ecological space better occupied by native birds, up close their plumage is really lovely.
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