#ShortTailedWeasel

#ShortTailedWeasel

Ermine, Stoat or Short-tailed Weasel (Mustela erminea) in its winter coat...

She's the one who has been having fun stealing Jack's (The Raven) meat, for a long time. I've been trying to capture her for about 3 years on my camera and finaly succeeded last Thurday during the snow storm when power was down.

I'm very proud… she's an adorable one.

#CanadianRedFox

A small Fox at dusk upon the North hill has spotted a little Red Squirrel for a potential dinner.

#NorthernFlicker

Breeding period... singing, dancing, and loving.

@BenAdrienProulx May 5th, 2024.

#NorthernRaven

Raven's Mist

Mountainous Parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

@BenAdrienProulx July 3rd, 2023.

#Dark-eyed Junco

As the end of April approaches, this beautiful blizzard of Snowbirds is about to leave our area to the Grand North regions. It still amazes me that for such a small and fragile species most of them choose to go to their winter range origin, in cold temperature, to breed.

#TheWhiteJunco

His Leucistic color reflects the softness, the purity, the vitality…

Some people would say Albino but actually it is a Leucistic bird. And for people that are not familiar with this term, Leucism is a genetic condition in which there is a partial loss of pigmentation which causes the white, pale, or patchy coloration of the feathers; but not the eyes.

Our little friend here has arrived Yesterday morning with a flock of about 25 Dark-eyed Junco to have breakfast with us and still here today. I've seen in the past some partial decoloration on a few birds like on Pigeons and others but never a completely decolorated one under my eyes.

((I'm sure there is no need to say that we opened a directory in the computer and took over 50 pictures of it. Right?))

So according to experts Leucism occur at a rough estimate of 1 in 30,000 birds and to see one with a complete decoloration like the "Great White Raven" in Vancouver Island, is "RARE" and you need to be very lucky.

Good day folks!