- Posts
- 4,648
- Likes
- 17,606
Nature Watch, Your Flora and Fauna Photos and Stories
- Posts
- 20,798
- Likes
- 47,678
Dan S
·Little mule deer on our walk.
- Posts
- 27,601
- Likes
- 70,221
Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerIn the back yard again...
Rose Breasted Grossbeak:
Male Scarlet Tanager earlier in the season, before they turn colours:
Had some Monarchs come in to roost in our trees overnight a few years back, on their way to Mexico:
Front yard now, at the woodpile...Young Cooper's Hawk...
Looking to make a meal of a squirrel who was doing his best not to get eaten...
Rose Breasted Grossbeak:
Male Scarlet Tanager earlier in the season, before they turn colours:
Had some Monarchs come in to roost in our trees overnight a few years back, on their way to Mexico:
Front yard now, at the woodpile...Young Cooper's Hawk...
Looking to make a meal of a squirrel who was doing his best not to get eaten...
- Posts
- 3,386
- Likes
- 8,549
- Posts
- 2,385
- Likes
- 4,815
Charlemagne1333
·Out on a stroll, this evening, and noticed a birch polypore growing on the trunk of a decaying silver birch.
Among other things, it’s been used as an anaesthetic, a treatment for parasites, and as a poultice for open wounds.
Always handy to know 👍
Among other things, it’s been used as an anaesthetic, a treatment for parasites, and as a poultice for open wounds.
Always handy to know 👍
- Posts
- 3,386
- Likes
- 8,549
MRC
·Dragonfly lava.
From the size and proportions I think it likely that it is a Broad-Bodied Chaser Libellula depressa like this one taken at the same little pond.
From the size and proportions I think it likely that it is a Broad-Bodied Chaser Libellula depressa like this one taken at the same little pond.
- Posts
- 4,648
- Likes
- 17,606
- Posts
- 27,601
- Likes
- 70,221
Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerSome pics from Point Pelee National Park...one of my favourite places.
Hagen's Blue Damselfly:
Blue Herron:
Male Eastern Pondhawk:
Female Eastern Pondhawk:
Green frog:
Monarch - this park is a major stop on the migration route of the Monarch:
Another Monarch? Not, this is a Viceroy, which are often confused for Monarchs:
Cabbage White:
Orange Sulphur:
Giant Swallowtail:
Hagen's Blue Damselfly:
Blue Herron:
Male Eastern Pondhawk:
Female Eastern Pondhawk:
Green frog:
Monarch - this park is a major stop on the migration route of the Monarch:
Another Monarch? Not, this is a Viceroy, which are often confused for Monarchs:
Cabbage White:
Orange Sulphur:
Giant Swallowtail:
- Posts
- 1,617
- Likes
- 5,081
flw
··history nerdFrom this past April: We noticed a couple of wild turkeys wandering across our front yard ...
A few days later, a solitary wild turkey began showing up at our bird feeder ...
It got more comfortable with our yard with each passing day ...
And finally tried to knock on the front door ...
At which point we had to chase it off.
We have a lot of deer wander through the yard as well, but they generally have enough sense to stay at arm's length away from the house. My wife and I have wondered what induced this bird to become so unafraid of people. Not a good indicator of health approaching Thanksgiving.
A few days later, a solitary wild turkey began showing up at our bird feeder ...
It got more comfortable with our yard with each passing day ...
And finally tried to knock on the front door ...
At which point we had to chase it off.
We have a lot of deer wander through the yard as well, but they generally have enough sense to stay at arm's length away from the house. My wife and I have wondered what induced this bird to become so unafraid of people. Not a good indicator of health approaching Thanksgiving.
- Posts
- 9,886
- Likes
- 47,153
Walrus
·Had to rescue this little guy. He was moving to slow I figured he’d get stepped on. Moved him to the tall grass I think that rolling up is playing dead can’t be sure of course.
- Posts
- 1,957
- Likes
- 25,744
- Posts
- 3,386
- Likes
- 8,549
MRC
·Urban hedgehog, bit unusual to see one in daylight perhaps the clocks changing confused it.
Sorry about the quality -- cheap phone.
Sorry about the quality -- cheap phone.
- Posts
- 3,386
- Likes
- 8,549
MRC
·A hedgehog story....
I was in New Zealand in a reserve on North Island when I found typical hedgehog droppings. So I went to the Ranger Station and reported what I'd seen, why I recognised them (live in England, hedgehogs in the garden), and their grid location. The Rangers were very pleased to get the report, for hedgehogs are a pest in NZ because they eat the eggs of NZ's many ground-nesting birds.
Shame for the antipodean 'hogs but I think the birds deserve not to have predators introduced by humans from the other side of the world.
I was in New Zealand in a reserve on North Island when I found typical hedgehog droppings. So I went to the Ranger Station and reported what I'd seen, why I recognised them (live in England, hedgehogs in the garden), and their grid location. The Rangers were very pleased to get the report, for hedgehogs are a pest in NZ because they eat the eggs of NZ's many ground-nesting birds.
Shame for the antipodean 'hogs but I think the birds deserve not to have predators introduced by humans from the other side of the world.
- Posts
- 80
- Likes
- 73
Bruffell06
·A few years back on holiday in Hawaii
- Posts
- 27,601
- Likes
- 70,221
Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerHike with the pups of Friday afternoon through a local provincial park...
Nothing like sunshine streaming through the trees on a nice fall day.
Remi was tired by the end of the approx. 75 minute walk, but he was a trooper:
Maeve could have gone on for a lot longer of course...
Snack after...
Nothing like sunshine streaming through the trees on a nice fall day.
Remi was tired by the end of the approx. 75 minute walk, but he was a trooper:
Maeve could have gone on for a lot longer of course...
Snack after...
- Posts
- 4,648
- Likes
- 17,606
- Posts
- 27,601
- Likes
- 70,221
Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerLeaf season in full swing on Friday...mowing the leaves more than the lawn (which you can't really see)...
- Posts
- 3,598
- Likes
- 6,070
Vercingetorix
··Spam RiskZorak is dead.
- Posts
- 27,601
- Likes
- 70,221
Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerThis little guy comes to sit on the window sill of my shop lately...quite tame as I could tap on the window right at his head and he would just sit there...
Took this photo through the skylight, as this hawk was perched in one of our taller trees...
Took this photo through the skylight, as this hawk was perched in one of our taller trees...
- Posts
- 2,443
- Likes
- 4,229
wsfarrell
·Peruvian lily, camellia, and tree mallow:
