Canada Day house finches

Parents and fledglings

 ^^House finch family on the power lines and

at the suet feeder outside my window

 

 

 

All About Birds house finch info page

end of summer

 

^^Before and after: the brief windstorm on Saturday made short work of this

bamboo vine arbour, not to mention neighbourhood trees.

 

 ^^before and after

 

 

 

 

guest shots: wings over Saskatchewan

guest post by Layton Smith

 ^^Canada goose

 

 ^^American goldfinch

^ ^sandhill cranes
a great article and downloadable pdf available at Canadian Field Naturalists

 ^^Baltimore oriole, one of two northern oriole subspecies

 ^^oriole nest

^^tree swallows

^^western crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos hesperis), a smaller
subspecies of the american crow, found on the prairies.

 

Photographs by Layton Smith used in this post are 'free to use' under the the terms of
this Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

aliens

The folks at What's that Bug? identified this as a stink bug nymph.

summer

Coreopsis sp., Alyssum sp., Hen and Chicks, blue fescue grass.

some lost summer ago