After a long period of skies without much character, except for the biting kind, it is time to show some more of the fantastic skies we can have in Manitoba throughout the year.
Most of the wild skies happen when it is not winter, so that leaves us logically with 3/4 of the year. Except for this year. So I will have to dig a bit in last year’s archives to get a decent number of presentable pictures 
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Some of them do sound like that, with their “hawk, hawk, hawk!”. After nearly two years of hunting birds in Manitoba, I have come to understand that birds are plentiful. Unlike the birds I have seen in Europe, although the places I lived were not really made for birds, I admit. Getting any bird here is fairly easy, just point your camera
off the balcony or pick it up when you’re lazily sipping a beer in the back yard and you’ll get a bird. But to get some raptors is a different matter. You have to go and get them, stalk them and even wait for them to come back to a spot where they were before.
No Velociraptors, I did not invent a time machine to shoot some lizards. I am talking about the raptors coming back to Canada after having spent the winter in warmer climes. Come to think of it, I should have done the same.
On April, 5th in La Riviere, MB the Raptor Festival was held. I was highly interested to be able to follow the birders and take pictures of the birds.
Easter eggs. While I have often decorated Easter eggs when I was young, never would I have used tools and beeswax to achieve my goal. At most, the eggs were decorated with a few colours, overlapping colour making for new ones.
The Ukrainian art of decorating the eggs is way more elaborate.
Or better put: Phrags. This is one of the terms used to name orchids. What corresponds to what, I have no idea. The biologists that invented the scientific names for orchids must have had lots of imagination, or lots to drink.
But I can be wrong and those names make perfect sense for the initiated. I’m not one of them.