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We moved here for the trees, then we found, deer, moose, coyotes, hares, ravens, grouse, flying squirrels and pack rats. Nature surrounds us with sounds, sights and scents that fill the foothills with life. We are in the montane geologic zone between the prairie and the alpine mountains. One pioneer called it the “stairway to heaven”. Ben Gadd’s “Handbook of the Canadian Rockies” is essential.

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• This sharp shinned hawk was stunned after hitting the house

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• Canadian tiger swallowtail. We also get the police car butterfly, the white admiral

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• The flower with a pond named after it – forgetmenot

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• I had to look it up. It's an elephants head.

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• Bald eagles, hawks and owls thrive on Richardson's ground squirrels

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• Barrow's goldeneye ducks, late winter, Forgetmenot Pond

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• This barred owl almost disappeared in the forest

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• Amazing what you can find in the forest

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• Yellow-bellied sapsucker

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• Western wood lily

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• A wild orchid – the lady's slipper

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• Pileated woodpecker

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• A common redpoll coming in for a landing

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• Ever observant and always out for a meal, they feast on carrion & garbage in the hamlet

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• You can tell a raven from a crow by size and by the fingers extending from the wing

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• Fireweed or River beauty are broad-leaved willow-herbs

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• Brown-eyed Susan

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• This frog got stuck with no way out – in an enclosed stairwell. I can empathize

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• Grouse make several sounds, clucks, drumming wings and a shocking burst of flapping wings

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• This was a rare sighting of a hawk in the winter

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• Orb Weaver Spider

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