This week’s Saturday Bird is a male Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) with food for its young.
Photographed near Punnichy in Saskatchewan in the mid 1990s. The male and female were landing on this branch before going to the nest which was in the hollow steel leg of a grain bin.
This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Summer Vacation 2020.
The prompt is about an ideal, dream vacation given the Covid-19 pandemic that makes vacation plans somewhat irrelevant at the moment. Which gave me the opportunity to look back and consider where I would like to return to with a digital camera.
Before the list of locations became too long I made sure only summer ones were on the list. This quickly made one location stand out, south central Saskatchewan.
A summer plumage male American Goldfinch spying on the photographer. Photographed near the village of Punnichy.
A female Wilson’s Phalarope on the shoreline of Middle Quill Lake.
A male Mountain Bluebird with food for the young in a nearby nest. Photographed near the village of Punnichy.
A Marbled Godwit in a marsh at Little Quill Lake.
Summer plumage American Avocets feeding on a slough near the village of Punnichy.
An American White Pelican on a section of the Last Mountain Lake National Wildlife Area.
My contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: What’s For Dinner?
Fish.
Apple.
Poppy seeds.
Bugs.
Fish, again.
Caterpillar.
A contribution to Becky’s July Squares: Blue challenge.
A male Mountain Bluebird with food for its young. Photographed near Punnichy, Saskatchewan, Canada.
