A twelve-spotted skimmer (Libellula pulchella) rests on some Pagoda dogwood (Cornus alternifolia ) in my backyard Saturday. © BCP 2010 It wasn’t really a great day to go exploring yesterday — Saturday. Unless, perhaps, you were a duck flying to points east. Two reasons: For 1, it poured rain for most of the day. And […]
A tree with delicate yellow flowers at Ashbridge’s Bay this week. Willowish leaves, but is it a willow? © BCP 2010 Friday, June 25, 2010 update: Of course! How silly of me. The tree above is a Russian olive (Eleagnus angustifolia). A fellow Toronto nature photoblogger, who goes by the handle Don Watcher, answered my […]
A wild multiflora rose bush (Rosa multiflora) with upside-down Canada geese at Ashbridge’s Bay. The vertical shadow in the water is the stack from the sewage treatment plant across the bay. © BCP 2010 Some days you just get lucky. It’s simple serendipity. (And I think it augurs well for the first day of summer. […]
An American toad (Bufo americanus) is indifferent to my approach at the Rattray Marsh on Thursday. © BCP 2010 I decided on the eve of the first day of summer that I would write about this placid toad that I encountered this past Thursday on my exploratory excursion to the Rattray Marsh in south Mississauga. […]
Just past the grebes I came across a great blue heron fishing. I got a couple of shots off of the heron, who then took off across the bay. I kept on going around the bay, and encountered the heron again, as you can see from the picture above. I took a succession of photos […]
