Ann McRae
Mar-15-2008, 05:25 PM
you're sure for a big surprise..(..anybody else remember the Teddy Bears Picnic song?)
We had a small snowfall yesterday, and I thought it might make the countryside refreshed and pretty, so I convinced hubby to come with me to Elk Island Park. Since I visited last fall with skippy, I have imagined the perfect shot of a buffalo in the snow.
The day wasn't to produce the perfect shot, but I grabbed a couple:
http://canadian-ann.smugmug.com/photos/266118615_yVxdM-L.jpg
The bison loop is closed for the winter, so we couldn't do any drive by shooting of these guys :(:
We drove the park rode and around one loop, spotting a few bison lying far away and one lone coyote hunting. We then crossed the highway to the wood buffalo side and went for a walk in the woods. Took about 20 steps along the path and the dh says, out loud, there's a moose. I thought he was bsing! But sure enough, there she was(sadly, the pic quality isn't great):
http://canadian-ann.smugmug.com/photos/266117019_VtBfi-L.jpg
Another step, to see if I could get a shot without the trees in the way, and :huh she had a calf with her. All I could think of as I took this was the scene from Bambi where they encounter the hunters:
http://canadian-ann.smugmug.com/photos/266117757_r9ajS-L.jpg
We carried on, coming across tonnes of fresh prints - the moose prints for sure, coyote, deer, other species that I wasn't able to id from the tracks. When we got near a lake, we found a coyote that had found himself a meal:
http://canadian-ann.smugmug.com/photos/266118215_7SVQk-L.jpg
Driving home, we saw mule deer. There are Canada Geese around too. We also saw a huge bird nest in the top of a big poplar, and a short distance away a really huge bird. I wouldn't think the birds of prey are migrating up here yet, but I am sure this was a huge hawk or an eagle.
We had a small snowfall yesterday, and I thought it might make the countryside refreshed and pretty, so I convinced hubby to come with me to Elk Island Park. Since I visited last fall with skippy, I have imagined the perfect shot of a buffalo in the snow.
The day wasn't to produce the perfect shot, but I grabbed a couple:
http://canadian-ann.smugmug.com/photos/266118615_yVxdM-L.jpg
The bison loop is closed for the winter, so we couldn't do any drive by shooting of these guys :(:
We drove the park rode and around one loop, spotting a few bison lying far away and one lone coyote hunting. We then crossed the highway to the wood buffalo side and went for a walk in the woods. Took about 20 steps along the path and the dh says, out loud, there's a moose. I thought he was bsing! But sure enough, there she was(sadly, the pic quality isn't great):
http://canadian-ann.smugmug.com/photos/266117019_VtBfi-L.jpg
Another step, to see if I could get a shot without the trees in the way, and :huh she had a calf with her. All I could think of as I took this was the scene from Bambi where they encounter the hunters:
http://canadian-ann.smugmug.com/photos/266117757_r9ajS-L.jpg
We carried on, coming across tonnes of fresh prints - the moose prints for sure, coyote, deer, other species that I wasn't able to id from the tracks. When we got near a lake, we found a coyote that had found himself a meal:
http://canadian-ann.smugmug.com/photos/266118215_7SVQk-L.jpg
Driving home, we saw mule deer. There are Canada Geese around too. We also saw a huge bird nest in the top of a big poplar, and a short distance away a really huge bird. I wouldn't think the birds of prey are migrating up here yet, but I am sure this was a huge hawk or an eagle.