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If you have a relatively quick net connection, here’s something you might like to see. Gus Frederick, a friend from the left coast, has put one of his time-lapse photo creations up on You Tube. It features a bract of rhododendron flowers blossoming. The sequence is amazing and I’m sure most of […]
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, […]
For the past several days, the Blue Jays have made themselves quite conspicuous around the sun porch. They flap their wings and shriek as they cling to the screens while attempting to extricate the last of the Wild Cucumber (Echinocystis lobata) seeds that remain lodged in the fruits dangling from the dried, tangled vines. […]