It rained quite heavily yesterday (unusually so for Calgary) and we almost didn't make it out. But we persevered (coffee and doughnuts helped) and drove out to Bragg Creek to see what we could see. We saw little more in terms of wildlife than hawks along the TransCanada and swallows and robins along the creek-sides to the west of the town (which is still rebuilding after the devastating spring floods of 2013). We took a few pictures of mule deer, listened to various warblers (maybe one day we'll be able to identify warbler calls!), and drove slowly along the back roads looking for owls - you never know. We finally stopped at the side of the road in the middle of a small muskeg meadow, turned off the car, rolled the windows down, and immediately heard a slow version of this from the trees somewhere at the edge of the meadow (this is not our video, by the way):
The owl called for less than a minute. It was a haunting sound coming out of the still air. We scanned the trees and even relocated to another road on the other side of the meadow, but we never saw him. But it was a successful trip nonetheless!