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27 Sunday Sep 2015

Posted by sulis303 in health, life, nature

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big girl pants, bunny, garden, geese, juncos, polar bear, pond, sounds

yesterday got a pretty good shot of the Canada geese flying over the zoo…

  
they certainly announce themselves when they head out… there are a lot of them there… as we walked we had to pay attention to where we were putting our feet, lol… the sound always stops me in my tracks…

saw a few of the bears while we were there… 

  
this one was eating something from the pond… not quite sure what it was, but it kept it entertained for a long time… 

started out rainy at the beginning of the day… heard a new birdsong, but couldn’t place it… we looked out and saw a ton of junkos chattering away on the driveway having a snack…

 this was just before we headed to the grocery store… they were very busy… they are back for their trip down south… usually see them early in the spring as they head north…

by the time we came out of the store the sky was clear and we put  the cushions out in the garden…

the boys were picked up around three and I sat out in the garden for a while longer…

bunny stopped by…

  
stayed around for a while… 

only sounds in the garden were the chickadees and the waterfall…

we were all enjoying the quiet, lol…

wild things…

16 Wednesday Jul 2014

Posted by sulis303 in life, nature, Uncategorized

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Assiniboine Park Zoo, butterflies, Hudson, Journey to Churchill, polar bear, Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden, water, wild things

Journey to Churchill… the newest addition to the Assiniboine Park Zoo… it opened on July 3rd, but I haven’t had an opportunity to get there, particularly as it has been very busy on the weekends…

the last time I was there was in May and there was still lots of work to be done… the worst thing was the paths as they were filled with potholes and water… we had been going through a very rainy time… the other thing that has been a pain for over a year is that you had to walk all the way around on one side and then retrace your steps and go all the way around the other side… both of those issues have been resolved… the path is great – level and easy to walk on… and, at last, you can walk all the way around the zoo, woo hoo…

it is stunning…

muskox through the rocks...

muskox through the rocks…

the polar bear area is wonderful… there are lots of glass water viewing spots…

great viewing spots...

great viewing spots…

a few places to sit and watch for a while, and a wonderful tunnel under the water where you can see the bears swimming, and see all the way to the sky…

glass tunnel...

glass tunnel…

we found the seals swimming in a lovely spot where they were very easy to view…

seals cavorting...

seals cavorting…

the vistas into the space make you feel like you could step right into the beautiful setting…

vistas...

vistas…

sadly, the early afternoon is often when the bears are napping, but we did get to see Hudson…

Hudson...

Hudson…

he was napping, but right by an open spot where he could see people… there were two interpreters there as well, answering questions… Kaska and Aurora, the two females, and Storm the other male, weren’t around…

great picture of one of the inukshuk’s with some of the group… a bit bigger than the one in my garden, lol…

little break at an inukshuk

little break at an inukshuk

we checked out other animals and finished up at the Shirley Richardson Butterfly Garden…

resting butterfly...

resting butterfly, maybe a viceroy…

we got a group photo just before heading our separate ways…

wild things...

wild things…

a wonderFULL time… I am looking forward to going back very soon to see it all again…

 

 

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