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A short drive almost anywhere around Val Marie, Saskatchewan, will usually yield up some bird ops, and such was the case recently along Newton Lake Road, in the Frenchman River Valley. This Western Meadowlark posed nicely on a fence post with its beak full of insect larvae - possibly reluctant to return to its nest site while being watched. The soft light of late afternoon brought out surprisingly clear detail in the feathers. The car is a useful blind in situations such as this; many wildlife species don't react to it the way they do to the human profile.
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It was a cool morning in early April, and when the Red-winged Blackbird called from its cattail perch, its breath hung in the air for a few seconds. Rithet's Bog, Victoria, British Columbia.
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The beautiful Steller's Jay is the provincial bird of British Columbia.
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Casual avian aerobatics: a sleek Black-billed Magpie tucks its feet and dives from the top of a stack of hay bales, while a chunky Sharp-tailed grouse looks on.
This part of the park is on recently acquired land - outside of the bison area - where grazing permits still exist, so hay bales and fence lines are still in place, along with a few historic ranch buildings.
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