Photos #4 and #5 were taken on 9 December 2022, on a drive NE of Calgary, The other three images are from my archives. I will add the description from under a previously posted photo taken on the same trip.
Another long drive, hoping to find a Snowy Owl, but out of luck again. Unfortunately, not a single one to be seen anywhere. I did notice that a very experienced birder covered some of the same roads as I did, and she had no Snowy Owl sightings posted on eBird for the same day.
I was out for about five and half hours, driving NE of the city. Takes roughly an hour and a quarter to get to the area I wanted, so by the time I allow the same for the return journey, it doesn't leave much time for searching the back roads. However, I covered the roads that I wanted, so it was worth it.
The only birds I saw were three Magpies, about 8 Gray Partridge flying fast across the road, and maybe half a dozen small birds that could have been House Sparrows, also flying across the road.
Not much in the way of new-to-me barns, except at one location that I came across. I had heard of this old homestead, that had been used in the making of the film, "Brokeback Mountain", but had never seen it before. Oh, I guess I was wrong! After checking my photos from the previous drive I had done with my daughter on 22 November 2019, I discovered that I had in fact taken photos of some of the barns (from the road, as always). Guess I didn't realize back then what this homestead had been used for - an actual farm that was used in the beautiful, though sad, movie, "Brokeback Mountain".
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