CLBI

This is where my parents first met. Apparently there wasn't a lot obviously between them unless one had eyes to see or ears to hear. It is the Canadian Lutheran Bible Institute. Apparently there's nothing quite like it in Australia. Here in Canada it is still going strong.

House

This house is fairly typical of homes in the area where I had lunch. A streetscape of buildings like this is quite attractive.

Finches

Retreating from the withering gaze of my avian friend, I enjoyed a good lunch. So did these guys, in one of the bird feeders outside. I am told they are 'finches', though they appear a bit different from what we call 'finches' at home.

Hungry Bird

We got to the town of Camrose and soon had caught up with the lady we had come to see in her second floor apartment (3rd floor in Canadienese). She was a non smoker so I went out onto her balcony for a smoke prior to a late lunch.

Watching me intently from a tall tree a few metres away was this little bugger. Quite colourful, he was obviously upset that I was on 'his' balcony, preventing him from lunching on his own food in the bird feeders our friend kept there for him and his kind. I don't know what type of bird he is.

Snow Geese

We pulled off the road so as to admire the thousands of birds as they wheeled above and did what geese do. I managed to catch a few of them in flight. I'm not sure if we are viewing a mixed group of Canada and Snow Geese, or if the dark one's are just another colouration of the snow geese.

We weren't the only ones to pull over and watch them for a while. For which I am glad, as it made me feel less like a 'tourist'.

Goose Lake

The day before yesterday went out to Camrose for an afternoon. As we approached a distant bend in the highway I could see a huge flock of birds wheeling in the distance. As the kilometres crawled by, they defined themselves into what I was told were snow geese. There were literally thousands of them.

They were congregating in and around one of the large temporary bodies of water that form at this time of year from snow melt and rain. Here's a small section of the 'lake'.