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I believe the average person’s reaction to seeing an Eastern Tent Caterpillar nest may be to become grossed out, or perhaps angry and determined to rip it down. I’ll admit that I experience some of that urge to rip down nests when I discover them in our apple trees. In that case, I generally cut […]
Here at the farm, there’s a small open area in a section of the poplar woods. The sunshine washes over the vegetation for most of the daylight hours. Any time that I want to find butterflies, that’s the place to go. Yesterday, as I walked the section of trail passing through this open area, two […]
One of the great things about participating in the Blogger BioBlitz was that it spurred quite a number of people to get out into the field to do some serious looking around. While I’m fairly observant year round, I did find that I was paying even more attention to happenings in the field, especially for […]
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 if […]
We decided to kick off our week of bioblitzing by recording interesting sightings while hiking a couple of sections of the trail system at Murphys Point Provincial Park here in eastern Ontario. We set out around noon and finished up a little over three hours later. We didn’t try to count absolutely everything, as that […]
This is the scene that greeted me when I sat up in bed to take a look out the north-facing window into our garden early this morning. Not a pretty sight! Shortly after, I saw three large “V” formations of Canada geese winging their way southward over the house. They looked rather *determined* — like […]
These aren’t brand new photos, but I’ll use them to illustrate this post. Lately, I’ve seen several Woolly Bear caterpillars (Pyrrharctia isabella) moving about over the dead grass in the garden and surrounding fields. Unfortunately, I haven’t been carrying my camera around with me so much, so you get the vintage photos instead. Anyhow, about […]