"SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL" - Great Blue Heron
April 21, 2025
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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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"BETCHA CAN'T EAT JUST ONE" - Red Squirrel
March 31, 2025
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"BETCHA CAN'T EAT JUST ONE" Northern Red Squirrel - 9 Photos
Using the iconic slogan for Lay's Potato Chips, "Betcha Can't Eat Just One", it appears pine nuts are to North American Red Squirrels much like potato chips are to people.
Pine nuts are the edible seeds of certain varieties of pine trees & are contained within the female cones. The...
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"THEY GROW UP SO QUICKLY" - Coyote
March 29, 2025
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"THEY GROW UP SO QUICKLY" Coyote - 6 Photos
Learning from last year's youngsters, as Spring progresses, young coyotes quickly mature and gain more endurance and they become more like their parents, i.e. elusive.
As they gain greater experience, they hunt further afield and previous hunting grounds which potentially provided easier meals (such a...
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