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"WELL, I'LL BE DAMMED" - Beaver (North American)

April 27, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"WELL, I'LL BE DAMMED" Beaver (North American) - 7 Photos It was much like Goldilocks & The Three Bears minus Goldilocks, beavers not bears and although the beavers kept getting progressively larger, this was probably three siblings crossing the dam. Although the last one to cross the dam was large, he/she is not the biggest by far within this...

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"REFLECTIONS" - Wood Duck

April 22, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"REFLECTIONS" Wood Duck (Male & Female) - 6 Photos What could be better than a Wood Duck but a Wood Duck x 2, i.e. reflected in the water. All one needs is a Wood Duck (male or female), a still pond & some ambient light. The last two photos are of a female Wood Duck, who I believe is often overlooked by her more flamboyant counterpart but wi...

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"SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL" - Great Blue Heron

April 21, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL" Great Blue Heron - 5 Photos One Great Blue Heron and a short visit to the pond. 1. Shake out those wet feathers (Photo #1 & Photo #2) 2. Rattle from head to toe (Photo #3) 3. Roll on (Photo #4 & Photo #5) PHOTO #1 PHOTO #2 PHOTO #3 PHOTO #4 PHOTO #5

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"KNOCK ON WOOD" - Pileated Woodpecker

April 21, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"KNOCK ON WOOD" Pileated Woodpecker (Female) - 5 Photos A wet cool day in the woods probably explains the fluffy feather appearance of this female Pileated Woodpecker and her attentiveness to grooming. She seemed more pre-occupied with looking after her feathers than drilling into a tree uncovering insects or insect larvae, deep within the wood...

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"BEAVER FIR" - Beaver (North American)

April 16, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"BEAVER FIR" Beaver (North American) - 5 Photos No, there is no spelling error in the title. The "fir" refers to a conifer (or evergreen) tree not the beaver's coat. Conifers are considered emergency food for beavers, i.e. they will eat them when other food sources are scarce. And, of course, although the ice has completely disappeared from the...

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"COLOUR THE WORLD" - Wood Duck

April 15, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"COLOUR THE WORLD" Wood Duck (Male) - 9 Photos Male Wood Ducks are so striking in colour it's as if Nature opened her paint box and endowed the male ducks with all the iridescent colours at hand. One would wonder how a duck so vibrant could be camouflaged and not be easily targeted by predators. The female Wood Duck's colouring is, of course, m...

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"THE BEACHCOMBER" - Coyote

April 14, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"THE BEACHCOMBER" Coyote - 6 Photos The definition of a beachcomber is "a person who walks along a beach looking for valuable or interesting items" but, of course, Oxford doesn't appear to know that coyotes do this too. Take one young coyote combing the beach, looking for valuable or interesting items to eat. Coyotes are opportunistic predat...

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"ON THE BEACH" - Beaver (North American)

April 09, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"ON THE BEACH" Beaver (North American) - 7 Photos It's Spring & the beavers are beginning to appear around sunset, trying to pack on as many calories to make up for any weight lost over the winter months. Unlike bears, they don't hibernate. Beavers do venture out during the colder months providing there is ample open water in their ponds to all...

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"A SQUIRREL OF A DIFFERENT COLOUR" - Eastern Gray Squirrel (Red Phase)

April 02, 2025 • Leave a Comment

"A SQUIRREL OF A DIFFERENT COLOUR" Eastern Gray Squirrel (Red Phase) - 4 Photos The first point to be made regarding the four photos that follow is: 1. There has been no tampering with the colouring of the squirrel during the photo developing or editing. The original photos were cropped and some minor editing performed but the colour of the squ...

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