Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦

That sounds lovely!

Gorgeous! The lighting is perfect.

This is wonderful!

Again. I'm sorry it bothers you, but I'm posting a natural behaviour. If this bothers you, I recommend avoiding nature feeds. You'll see it a lot.

Yes, actually it does if it wants to survive, which is it's imperative. If you don't like the 'headline' as you call it, you can choose to disengage.

I'm sorry, but an owl's got to eat.

This is an incredible shot. Absolutely gorgeous.

I'm not sure where you are, but that doesn't look like a great gray plunge hole. That said, it definitely looks like another owl took a dive after potential prey.

I haven't had a chance to check it out in depth yet, but it looks really cool.

A large great gray owl stands in a snowbank beside a rose with a deer mouse in its beak as it looks over its shoulder back at the forest.

The owl uses its claw to help rearrange the position of the mouse in its beak.

The great gray owl mid-gulp as the mouse hangs in the air before being caught in the beak and swallowed. The owl's eyes look cloudy because they are covered by the translucent nictitating membrane.

Like most owls, great grays eat their prey whole. This one did it with a bit of flare as it downed a deer mouse. #birds #🌿

This day always brings a smile to my face :)

A digital pencil sketch of four black capped chickadees surrounding some handwritten text that reads “You don’t have to do it alone.”

Just a little scrabbledy sketch to keep spirits up.

I also learned today that a group of chickadees is called a ‘banditry’ and how cute is that?

Gorgeous colour and lighting!

It's a European robin.

A white-breasted nuthatch looks like an excited bowling pin as it leans back sharply from its perch on the edge of a wooded tray feeder. It's been startled by the takeoff of a black-capped chickadee, which is blurry in the foreground.

When your friend is being a little overdramatic and you're just trying to eat.
#birds 🌿

Wow! I didn't remember this one until I saw it, now I will be singing it off and on for the foreseeable future :)

That is exactly what the tunnel was for.

An aerial view of a sounding rocket shooting high into the air from the Churchill Rocket Range in the 1950s. You can see the tundra stretching out beyond it in the black and white photo.

A sounding rocket takes off from a pyramidal building on the sub-arctic tundra in 1957 - black and white photo.

Fort Churchill, west of the centre, was a joint Canada/US base until the 1970s. The buildings south of the centre is the old Churchill Rocket Range. They used to study the auroras by sending sounding rockets with instruments into the sky and collecting their payloads when they crashed back to Earth.

That is correct. This is one of them. We use the old roads left behind by the military base.

Right there with you. I've tried to explain all the reasons not to feed to her, but I'm banging my head against a wall with this one.

You're welcome. There's so much cool stuff out there about how songbirds survive extreme cold.

Yeah. This was a tough one.

Backyard encounter this morning. This is both beautiful and frustrating. I have a neighbour a road over who thinks she’s a Disney princess and feeds our local deer which results in some of them ending up too tame. I didn’t feed them, but they were making it really hard. #mammals 🌿

I think you might find that there are a lot of Canadians who don't like Tim Horton's :)

A little black-capped chickadee looks down from its perch on a black metal hook. Its face is wreathed in frost and its feather are puffed up as far as they go on this -39C morning.

This little chickadee had likely just woken up from its nocturnal hibernation. It was -39C this when I took this. Chickadees can drop their core temperature up to 10C and go into torpor at night to conserve energy in extreme weather. #birds 🌿

Our grouse seem to have all gone into hiding as well. I’ve never seen a porcupine here and I don’t know why.

Manitoban side eye 😉

They really are. Redpolls are pretty crazy too.

A little black-capped chickadee looks down from its perch on a black metal hook. Its face is wreathed in frost and its feather are puffed up as far as they go on this -39C morning.

This little chickadee had likely just woken up from its nocturnal hibernation. It was -39C this when I took this. Chickadees can drop their core temperature up to 10C and go into torpor at night to conserve energy in extreme weather. #birds 🌿

That is a bit of drama. Glad you were able to keep the bird out of their claws.