Dec. 4, 2018 - Spotting a mouse or a vole, a snowy owl makes a foray from its round bale perch but is unsuccessful and will try again in the snowy stubble east of High River. (Mike Sturk photo)

Okotoks, Alta - Jan. 2, 2021 - A mallard drake lands with a splash onto a backwater to the Sheep River in Okotoks. (Mike Sturk photo)

Blackie, Alta - Aug 16, 2020 - Beating the heat warning - A pair of bull moose, one of them younger, cool off in the 30C heat with a swim in a dugout at the edge of a barley field northeast of Blackie. (Mike Sturk photo)

Turner Valley, Alta - May 26, 2020 - Eventually, the two foraging black bears cross paths and the brown female chases away the intruding away from her territory. Bears are out of their winter dens and roaming the hillsides looking for something to eat these days in the mountains and foothills west of Turner Valley near the Sheep River.(Mike Sturk photo)

Longview, Alta - Jan 23, 2020 - A rare sighting, a barred owl hunts along the Highwood River east of Longview. (Mike Sturk photo)

Northern Pygmy Owl (MIKE STURK PHOTO)