Common Green Darner, Anax junius, dropping in for a brief visit. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/07/another-drop-in.html#VancouverIsland #Insects #Dragonflies #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography
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Susannah 🍁
@wweeta@mstdn.ca
mastodon 4.8.0-alpha.3+glitchI photograph and write about the world I see around me here on Vancouver Island: the forests and hllls, things green and wet, the none- to multi-legged critters that scramble, ooze, and slither on our beaches, birds and the occasional beast.
Find me at wanderinweeta.blogspot.com
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Salal leaves, catching the light in a dim forest. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/09/cheerful.html #VancouverIsland #Plants #Forests #NaturePhotography
American Red squirrel, Elk Falls. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/07/mostly-green-and-brown.html #VancouverIsland #Wildlife #Squirrels #NaturePhotography
Common Coral Slime Mold, aka White-Fingered Slime, Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa. On well-rotted log in deep rainforest. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/07/cool-enough.html #VancouverIsland #SlimeMold #Mycology #NaturePhotography
Tiny golden fly on my bedroom wall. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/07/its-buggy-time-of-year.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #Flies #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography
Forest Guardian and Quinny the Bear Cub. Another driftwood creation. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/04/little-bear-quinny-and-forest-guardian.html #VancouverIsland #Art #Sculpture #Driftwood #Sasquatch #NaturePhotography
Eye of a deer at my window. Look at those eyelashes! New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/01/those-eyelashes.html #VancouverIsland #Deer #Mammals #Wildlife #Eyes #NaturePhotography
Multicoloured rock, with lichens and toasty dry moss. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/07/patchwork-rocks.html #VancouverIsland #Rocks #Lichen #Mosses #NaturePhotography
Mushroom and moss. #VancouverIsland #Mushroms #Fungi #Moss #Mosstodon #NaturePhotography
Bright yellow/green moss on a rocky outcrop over McIvor Lake. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/02/shining-hill.html #VancouverIsland #Moss #Mosstodon #Green #NaturePhotography
Skunk cabbage! Spring is here! New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/now-its-really-spring.html #VancouverIsland #Plants #Spring #SpringFlowers #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography
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Crow digging out rockweed, looking for a meal. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-couple-of-hunters.html #VancouverIsland #Birds #Birding #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography
Rocks and sky. With a kingfisher. See him? New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/birds-on-rocks.html #VancouverIsland #Birds #Birding #Landscapes #Clouds #NaturePhotography
Trail companion. With a green moustache. New blog post. https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/02/met-on-trail-at-mcivor-lake.html #VancouverIsland #Pareidolia #Humour #Lichens #NaturePhotography
Old stump, still hard at work. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/02/granddaddy-stump.html #VancouverIsland #Stump #Trees #Forests #Old-growthTrees #Moss #Mosstodon #NaturePhotography
Colours on a grey day. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/02/colourful.html #VancouverIsland #Ferns #Plants #Red #WinterColors #NaturePhotography
Pink-tipped green anemones in the upper intertidal zone. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/02/when-sun-shines.html #VancouverIsland #Anemones #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineInvertebrates #NaturePhotography
Birds' nest fungus, with periodoles that look like sugar cookies. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/02/i-wimped-out-but.html #VancouverIsland #Mushroms #Fungi #BirdsNestFungi #NaturePhotography
Reindeer lichen, Cladonia sp., and tiny Cladonia verticillata, Ladder lichen, on a mossy bank. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/02/oportunistic-lichens.html #VancouverIsland #Lichens #CladoniaLichens #NaturePhotography
Cladonia lichen with Douglas-fir needles. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/02/colourful-part-ii.html #VancouverIsland #Lichens #CladoniaLichens #Green #NaturePhotography
I was too slow, but I like those pink feet! #VancouverIsland #Birds #Birding #Gulls #NaturePhotography
Floating log; inner tunnelling, outer spalting. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/hidden-creek.html #VancouverIsland #Invertebrates #Fungi #MarineInvertebrates #NaturePhotography
Teddy bear found dumped out in the forest with trash. Brought home and fixed up, because I couldn't just leave him there in the rain. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/ranting-hands-on.html #VancouverIsland #Rant #OsitoDePeluche #TeddyBear #NaturePhotography
Mussels, barnacles, oysters glued to an intertidal rock. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/staying-put.html #VancouverIsland #Oysters #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineInvertebrates #NaturePhotography
Snakehead Lake, mid-February. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/02/reaching-to-sky.html #VancouverIsland #Trees #Landscapes #NaturePhotography
A "black button" crustose lichen on a rock. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/02/green-fossils-black-buttons.html #VancouverIsland #Moss #Lichens #CrustoseLichens #NaturePhotography
Western Yellowjacket, one of a swarm building this summer's nest in an ancient piling. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/busy-busy-spring-is-coming.html #VancouverIsland #Invertebrates #Insects #Wasps #NaturePhotography
Lichen agaric 'shrooms, Lichenomphalia umbellifera. On a mossy log. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/marching-lichens.html #VancouverIsland #RLichens #Mushrooms #Moss #LichenSubscribe #NaturePhotography
Top of a mossy rock. And a fallen crawler. Look for it! New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/02/meetup-on-rocks.html #VancouverIsland #Moss #Rocks #NaturePhotography
First spring leaves of red elderberry. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/equilux-equinox-spring-anyhow.html #VancouverIsland #Spring #Plants #NaturePhotography
Rocks at the bottom edge of the intertidal zone across from Quadra Island. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/just-wondering-no-answers.html #VancouverIsland #Rocks #Landscapes #Beaches #Geology #NaturePhotography
Lichen on an evergreen trunk. Probably Hypogymnia enteromorpha. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/02/on-shady-sidehill.html #VancouverIsland #Lichens #NaturePhotography
The road runs west. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/01/last-chance.html #VancouverIsland #Landscapes #Winter #Highways #Frost #NaturePhotography
A "wave" of sedimentary conglomerate rock. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/just-rocks-and-stones-lots-of-stones.html #VancouverIsland #Geology #Rocks #NaturePhotography
Thimbleberries, not quite ripe. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/07/back-to-beaver-pond.html #VancouverIsland #Plants #WildFruits #EdiblePlants #NaturePhotography
Another old log structure. A bit leaky, though. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/hard-working-old-wood.html #VancouverIsland #Driftwood #Pareidolia #Beaches #NaturePhotography
Gumweed and two sweat bees, caught in the act. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/sunny-gumweed-and-some-bees.html #VancouverIsland #Bees #Insects #Invertebrates #Flowers #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography
Milky backswimmer under a floating pondweed leaf, holding an air bubble. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/07/what-camera-saw.html #VancouverIsland #Wildlife #Insects #AquaticInsects #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography
Found on lettuce; Western Tarnished Plant Bug. (Watch for it in your garden and your salad.) New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/07/polyphagous.html #VancouverIsland #Insects #GardenPests #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography
Cellar spider, a week ago, and tonight. Look what she's done! New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/happy-event.html #VancouverIsland #Spiders #Arachnids #Invertebrates #InverteFest #NaturePhotography
Bird's foot trefoil, Lotus corniculatus. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/07/birds-foot-trefoil.html #VancouverIsland #Plants #InvasiveSpecies #NaturePhotography
Ant colony under a rock; winged adults, so many pupae. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/07/my-turn-to-drop-in-for-visit.html #Insects #Ants #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography
Crowman Creek, North Vancouver Island, in Black and White. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/cancelled-adventure.html #VancouverIsland #Trees #Landscapes #Winter #B/WPhotography #NaturePhotography