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mastodon 4.7.2Photographing nature in Northern Ontario, Canada: birds, lichens, fungi, astro, macro... Kayaking. Baking bread.
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#FotoVorschlag 'Typisch für meinen Wohnort / meine Heimat'
Bäume so weit das Auge reicht.
#trees #landscape #fallcolors
The Loon I came close to today while kayaking may have been this year's young one. Loons are molting right now, and this one left me with a feather floating to the kayak.
One more for my collection of Loon feathers 😊.
#birds #feather #BWphotography
Our garden Chicory is still flowering, and this Yellow-legged Flower Fly (Syrphus rectus) took full advantage of it.
(Learning how to use the flash with the Fuji 😊.)
#flies #insects #wildflowers #macro
Our resident Chipmunk seems to be well prepared for the coming long winter. Never seen him this chunky. Stuffing what I had just dropped on the compost pile into his cheek pouches.
I wonder how many peanuts he has stored in his underground burrow. He knows how to ask for them 😊.
Found this little sparrow today, I think it's a Lincoln's?
Haven't seen one in years.
#birds #wildlife #migration
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Getting dark, I had just taken the hummingbird feeder into the house, was closing the curtains, and noticed the "heavy wind" in the plum tree.
Right! 🙄
Will have to pick all the remaining unripe plums tomorrow.
(Photo taken with 12800 ISO, through window, wrong lens,...)
#bear #wildlife #gardening
#FotoVorschlag
„Blau (kein Himmel)“ / Blue, no sky
Blaue Pilze auf Holz: Blue-stain fungus (Chlorociboria).
#FungiFriday #fungi #mushrooms
Closeup of an old Jack Pine cone, still attached to the tree after many years as the growth of tiny lichens on this one shows.
#macro #lichensubscribe #lichens
The small patch of Common Milkweed is full of large Monarch caterpillars and at least one chrysalis 🦋 .
#butterflies #gardening
Replying to
@ottaross@mastodon.social Export tax on TP!
Afterall, they "don't need anything from Canada".
Daragonflies this week: a Common Whitetail (Plathemis lydia) and an Ebony Jewelwing (Calopteryx maculata).
Please help yourselves to the abundant mosquitoes!
#dragonfly #nature #insects
The Milkweed flowers lining a logging road are covered with pollinators:
Great Spangled Fritillaries on top, and looking closely two little brown Skipper butterflies and two bees burrowed deep into the flowers, and on the leaf two more tiny insects.
#insects #butterflies #flowers
Baking Coconut Macaroons and suddenly notice that something went wrong this morning 🤦. How did that happen?
Before coffee, obviously.
#fashion
Northerly wind, cool night, blue sky today, fresh air!
A butterfly photo hike yielded so many butterflies, like this pretty Acadian Hairstreak (Satyricum acadia).
#butterflies #insects #nature
A Daylily a day keeps, maybe, the doctor away 😊.
I tried to name these lily hybrids after their colours as best as I could, so this one is Imperial Red and Chartreuse.
#bloomscrolling #glowers #gardening #daylily
It's Ontario Peach Time 🍑 😋.
The only problem is that all the peaches in the basket are at their best on the same day so I have to eat them all at once.
It's tough but I can live with that 😊.
This is a summer where the windows have to stay closed overnight because of the bad air quality from smoke, causing allergy aggravation.
So it also can't cool down in the house overnight.
So I can't hear the birds sing in the morning (do they even sing?).
And yes, I know it could be worse ...
Turned around in the garden to see a Black Bear inspecting flower boxes.
I would have thought they were all out in the bush picking blueberries. He was in no hurry upon being discovered.
Now I know who flattened some of my flowers last night.
These cute little flowers carpet the woody edges and shady rocks: Twinflowers (Linnaea borealis), actually mini Honeysuckles. They are about 5 cm high, their leaves are flat on the ground.
Some of the early food sources for pollinators.
#bloomscrolling #wildflowers #macro
Last evening I saw this bold little Bluebird leaning far out of the box, so they were ready. Must be getting crowded in there.
This morning I woke up from the low sweet voice of the father. He had coaxed them out before I could watch. So far, so good, despite the earlier drama 😊
#birds
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This tiny plant is called Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium montanum), a native wildflower. Despite the name, it is not a grass but an Iris. The flowers are about 5mm across.
#gardening #wildflowers #macro
Who is rustling through my flower boxes?
Little Chipmunk! No digging, please!
#wildlife #gardening #flowers
Trying to escape.
#fence
Hush! 🤫 🔕
It's #SilentSunday !
Chestnut-sided Warbler
#birds
Found a rare (in our area) and new to me butterfly: Little Yellow (Eurema lisa), a small fluttering yellow speck at our feet.
#butterflies #macro #nature
Replying to
@amandamakepeace@turtleisland.social
Really, it's unhealthy for "everyone".
It's clear why they word it this way.
Replying to
@Michigander@toad.social You certainly have the most beautiful sunsets!
You'll be back in your kayak.
Replying to on universeodon.com
@auscandoc@universeodon.com All while he needs and wants absolutely everything Canada has.
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@mandelbroccoli@cupoftea.social That Whitetail was sitting there calmly right in front of the bench I was sitting on.
Taken with the XF70-300mm + 1.4x teleconverter, Fuji XT5.
#SilentSunday
(posted early because of planned power outage)
Snoozing Mallard ducks. A whole bunch of them.
#birds #camouflage #nature