Chickadee Photo Art

Shore Birds

// April 1st, 2010 // No Comments » // Birds of Manitoba, Hecla/Grindstone Provincial Park, Interlake, Oak Hammock Marsh

Welcome back to my website & thanks for visiting !

Above:  Kildeer at Oak Hammock Marsh

Spring seems to be arriving early this year just like our little groundhog predicted it would.  With spring will be the arrival of our wonderful variety of birds.   The geese have already arrived and the Bald Eagles are once again soaring high in our skies.  Today’s blog features birds commonly found around our marshes and lakes.

Below:  Greater Yellowlegs, Solitary Sandpiper & Common Snipe.  These photos were taken at Oak Hammock Marsh, Hecla Island and Twin Beaches

Enjoy

~Sharon

Ice Fishing

// March 23rd, 2010 // No Comments » // Hecla/Grindstone Provincial Park, Interlake, Manitoba Tourist Destination, Scenic, Winter

Manitobans are a hearty bunch and continue to fish right through the winter on our frozen lakes and rivers. Small communities pop up on the Red River in the Lockport and Selkirk areas and the fishing shacks usually have heaters or small wood stoves inside keeping the fishers toasty warm even on bitter winter days.  Todays photos are from the Hecla Village area where a couple of gentlemen were enjoying a beautiful warm and sunny winter day ice fishing.

Two fishing shacks that have been pulled off the ice.

A shack and augers in the distance on Lake Winnipeg at Hecla.

Enjoy!

~Sharon

… And on this farm . . .

// March 17th, 2010 // No Comments » // Hecla/Grindstone Provincial Park, Interlake

They had a cow . . .

as well as a goat, numerous cats, a few dogs, chickens and rabbits.   A beautiful sunny Saturday in late March necessitated a trip out to the country and north to Hecla Island.  These photos were taken at a farm in the Riverton area.   It looks like spring is arriving early  here in Manitoba so I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

I love goats and remember them from my early years at the farm.  We would get goat’s milk and butted by the Billies.  They loved eating hard peppermint candies which my uncle would always have handy in his pockets.  Note their eyes with the horizontal pupil.

Enjoy !

~Sharon