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With the weather warming up here, this may be the last favourite moments from the past for awhile, as I should soon be back to reporting mainly live sightings. The photos in this post are all of a juvenile Eastern Milk Snake (Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum) encountered near Mississagagon Lake, north of Kaladar, Ontario, on Sept. […]
recently molted Dolomedes spider with exuviae in background (Aug. 12, 2004) (click on image for larger view) Winter is begin to wear on me a little, and despite recent adventures such as the Mudpuppy Night, I’m beginning to long for my daily invertebrate safaris here at the farm. To remind myself of all the fun […]
I was soon interrupted from my shooting by Eric’s exclamations – not quite of the magnitude of an excited outburst – but enough so that I knew he must have made a very interesting discovery. Finishing up with my first subject, I came over to view the source of the excitement. It was a wonderful […]
This is a post in a series about favourite moments of nature observation that have occurred over the past couple or so years. It’ll help to pass the time spent indoors this winter as I wait to be back out observing insects, spiders, frogs and others. This photo of a White-tailed Deer fawn (Odocoileus virginianus) […]
This is a post in a series about favourite moments of nature observation that have occurred over the past couple or so years. It’ll help to pass the time spent indoors this winter as I wait to be back out observing insects, spiders, frogs and others. We’re just about to take off for a day […]
This is the third of my posts about favourite moments of nature observation that have occurred over the past couple or so years. It’ll help to pass the time spent indoors this winter as I wait to be back out observing insects, spiders, frogs and others. The insect in the above photo is a Dobsonfly […]
This the second in my posts about favourite moments of nature observation that have occurred over the past couple or so years. It’ll help to pass the time spent indoors this winter as I wait to be back out observing insects, spiders, frogs and others. I shot this photo in late summer 2003. It’s of […]