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Three little birdies
… sit by my doorstep. Actually there were several and these are just some pictures of a couple of them. This little guy (gal) let me get quite close. Feed me Seymour Feed me. That’s quite a mouthful.
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Yeah, it figures.
Let’s see, the forecast for Friday for the past five days has been Sunny. Now that I’m actually able to get out camping for the first time in gawd knows how many years, what is it? Oh well, not going to let a little deluge stop me. If you need me tomorrow and Saturday you’ll…
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Fledglings
The night before last I suddenly realized that there were hordes of young boys running hither and yon around the House. As they were all armed with rocks it could only mean one thing, that the first Snow Bunting fledglings of the year had appeared. Sure enough three or four harried fledglings were being chased…
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Why? Why? Why?
Why not? The third anniversary edition of the wonderful birding carnival I and the Bird (#79) hosted by the inimitable Charlie Moores of 10,000 Birds. For the third anniversary I and the Bird is themed, framed around the question “Why are your still bird blogging?” and it is a thoughtful (and thought filled) edition to…
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How to feel much better about the world in 4 minutes and 25 seconds.
Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo. Hat tip to 10,000 Birds.
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Environment Canada needs your help.
The good folks at Environment Canada in Edmonton keep in touch with me from time to time about weather related issues. Sometime back, when I first received a call from them asking what the weather was like here I jokingly blogged that I thought it was more scientific than that. But kidding aside, they are…
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Amazed!
Sometimes we are witness to some of the most spectacular scenes that nature has to offer. And also on occasion she surprises us with the unusual or unexpected. On those very rare occasions we get both. Thinking the water levels had dropped sufficiently I headed out the night before last night to recover my hide…
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How Sir John Franklin helped furnish the White House
In 1845 Sir John Franklin and his officers and Crew set sail in two ships, HMS’s Erebus and Terror in search of the Northwest Passage. Most people know of how they disappeared into the Canadian High Arctic only to perish a long lonely way from home. Many people also know that it was the search…
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Some Random Scenes
I don’t seem to have very many words inside me lately, I guess I’m leaving too many of them behind writing and rewriting what seems to be the same scenes in the screenplay over and over, and then putting it back the way it was. So… here are some photos instead. Random scenics from the…
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High Arctic Barbarque
Although I made light, in my last post, of our lack of campfires up here, we do have them. Yesterday after we finished picnicking at Uluksan we took a drive over to Victor Bay to enjoy the sun, and watch the comings and goings. Fragrant smoke coming from the neighbourhood of a friend’s tent ,…
