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Ravens and mice
Ravens have intelligence. Indeed, lab studies demonstrate that ravens will cooperate on a project that requires two of them. If yesterday’s test is a measure, they regularly cooperate on a joint exercise in the wild. Mind you, it all … Continue reading
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Dipper caviar
Kokanee Creek is thickening with gorgeous surface and anchor ice as temperatures plummet and remain below freezing this week. Yet, dippers seem undeterred. Dippers appeared to delight in the variety of expanding new ice perches. This dipper dove off of … Continue reading
Irruptive Bohemians
Perhaps three or four dozen Bohemian Waxwings graced the skies at one time. I tried to capture a flight shot, but only succeeded in capturing two in a tree. The Bohemian Waxwings is perhaps the ultimate example of an … Continue reading
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Magpie feasts
We do not have many magpies around Kootenay Lake. This bird favours open country, and most of the lake is rimmed with forests. However, if you know where to look, we do have a few. Black-billed Magpies have a … Continue reading
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Bohemian Waxwings
About four dozen Bohemian Waxwings have arrived. The Bohemian Waxwing is an irruptive bird. Usually it winters in the north, but occasionally it irrupts southward in large numbers and then delights watchers as the arriving flock feeds. Then another … Continue reading
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October’s goulash
As these monthly goulashes go, this one is sparse. Only three images: two birds and a mammal. Here a Bald Eagle dives off of its perch on a tree. This raises the question of why it dives, rather than … Continue reading
California Gull
Ten days ago, I posted Iceland Gull and showed two pictures. The first shot was, indeed, an Iceland Gull (in its first winter). I misidentified the second picture: It was actually a California Gull. It is notoriously difficult to … Continue reading
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Iceland Gull
Sometimes it takes a decade to solve a mystery. Today, I was walking in Kokanee Park and saw a bird that didn’t quite fit my repertoire. Certainly, it was a gull, but which one? When the image was on … Continue reading
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September goulash
My usual claim for my monthly goulash is that it presents a collection of images that lacked postings of their own. Again true this month, it was also the case that previous postings this September were remarkably few — … Continue reading