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.
The Great Grey Owl is the provincial bird of Manitoba, and not the mosquito as some funny people may want to make us believe. Adults are between 48 and 76cm tall and they may weigh up to 800g.
The Great Grey is a magnificent bird relying on its ears and eyesight to hunt.
Nothing to shoot! Too cold to go out! Too dark, too light, no motivation. We’ve heard it all by now. It’s all because of the white stuff that still lingers around and even gets replenished at this time of the year.
Some say that spring should have been here already. Am I happy that I can do nothing about it! Nor can anyone else. The only thing we can do is make the best of it, and keep those hand warmers handy when we go out.