There has been a huge, I mean enormous, flock of Snow Geese gathering west of Estevan. The numbers are easily in the 150K+ range - and the flock was growing as smaller flocks dropped down to rest and graze. The parcel of land they were grazing had been seeded with a cover of what looked like a cereal grain and mustard. (I seriously don't know my crops any more). Anyway, it was fresh greens coming up. Very alluring for hungry, migrating geese.
I tried to get photos. This is maybe one-fifth of the flock, the ones closest to the road that rose up as I stopped my vehicle
Then I continued my drive to Torquay and north. I saw four moose skulking around an abandoned farm yard. They saw me as well. By the time I turned around, the moose were at full gallop across a summerfallow field.
They look slightly out of place on the flatlands, don't they?
There is still so much water around here, as evidenced by this old stand of trees that's been drowning since April.
Continuing on to the Mainprize Bridge over Rafferty Reservoir. A few fishermen were along the banks on one side. The choppier side had a few Northern Shovellers and two juvenile Western Grebes
The shovellers were really liking whatever greeny, grungy, algal stuff is in the water.
Onward to Midale. A Common Raven (they were as uncommon in this area as moose when I was growing up - now ravens are everywhere, especially in the winter).
A lingering Great Blue Heron at a farm dugout.
A huge Charolais bull
An oilwell - it's called Mixed Farming over here.
I tried to get photos. This is maybe one-fifth of the flock, the ones closest to the road that rose up as I stopped my vehicle
Then I continued my drive to Torquay and north. I saw four moose skulking around an abandoned farm yard. They saw me as well. By the time I turned around, the moose were at full gallop across a summerfallow field.
They look slightly out of place on the flatlands, don't they?
There is still so much water around here, as evidenced by this old stand of trees that's been drowning since April.
Continuing on to the Mainprize Bridge over Rafferty Reservoir. A few fishermen were along the banks on one side. The choppier side had a few Northern Shovellers and two juvenile Western Grebes
The shovellers were really liking whatever greeny, grungy, algal stuff is in the water.
Onward to Midale. A Common Raven (they were as uncommon in this area as moose when I was growing up - now ravens are everywhere, especially in the winter).
A lingering Great Blue Heron at a farm dugout.
A huge Charolais bull
An oilwell - it's called Mixed Farming over here.
