Archive for April, 2007
Monday, April 30th, 2007
I’ve just finished uploading the last of the bioblitz photos from the farm into my online galleries on Pbase. Later today, I’ll go through all of the images and ID and caption as many as I can, and then fill in a report sheet to send to the team that will be compiling the […]
Posted in Nature, Amphibians, Mammals, Birds, Farm, Conservation, Water, Blogger BioBlitz | 11 Comments »
Sunday, April 29th, 2007
This isn’t quite the post I’d intended to write this morning. I was planning to begin wrapping up our week of bioblitzing. However, the “litterbug” topic seemed to want to be addressed, so that’s how it goes.
As mentioned in yesterday’s post, Don and I volunteered to do some trail maintenance and clean-up at […]
Posted in Nature, Environment, Society, Life, citizen science, Blogger BioBlitz | 8 Comments »
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
We’re now into the homestretch of the Blogger BioBlitz week. I and others will be wrapping up our surveys of chosen areas over the weekend, and then working to compile the data to send to the team that will be putting together the final tallies. If you haven’t already done so, be sure […]
Posted in Nature, Birds, citizen science, Blogger BioBlitz | 13 Comments »
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
Diurnal Firefly (Ellychnia corrusca) resting atop a bright yellow Xanthoria species of lichen
which is growing over a Physcia aipolia lichen.
This is just an update to let everyone know that I haven’t fallen off the face of the Blogger BioBlitz map — at least, not yet! I skipped posting yesterday to concentrate on taking photos, […]
Posted in Nature, Insects, Sabrina, Birds, Farm, Invertebrates, citizen science, Blogger BioBlitz | 11 Comments »
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
Our second day of bioblitzing took place at a couple of our favourite conservation areas in the Lanark Highlands region of eastern Ontario. We didn’t encounter anything near as exciting as the encounter with the snapping turtle seen the previous day, but we did discover many wonderful little surprises that might have been overlooked […]
Posted in Nature, Trees, Insects, Spiders, Mammals, Sabrina, Fungi, Caterpillars, Turtles, citizen science, Blogger BioBlitz | 10 Comments »