Peony seedpods
Hollyhock
Huddling Puffballs
European Skipper butterfly
Unidentified plant
Red Ants
False Dandelion seedhead and bug
Fungi and spider
Long-bract Green Orchis / Coeloglossum/Habenaria v…
A Bolete sp.? (past their prime)
Spotted Water-hemlock / Cicuta maculata
Aster sp. (Smooth Blue Aster?)
Hollyhocks
Red Clover
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, adult male
Yellow and red Spider hiding under Yarrow
Sowthistle leaves
Sowthistle
Cottonwood Leaf beetles
VERY POISONOUS Spotted Water-hemlock
VERY POISONOUS Spotted Water-hemlock
Campion, or is it White Cockle?
Butter-and-eggs (Common Toadflax)
Creeping Thistle / Cirsium arvense, pure white, no…
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker male
Between the cracks
Harebell
Clematis in Lisa's garden
Unidentified spider
Lisa's beautiful dog
Cracker sp.
Succulent beauty
Himalayan Monal female
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, adult male
Puffballs / Calvatia sp.
Once-married Underwing / Catocala unijuga, left fr…
Nodding Onion / Allium cernuum
Mt Engadine Lodge trip
Bighorn Sheep
Kananaskis through the windscreen
Fritillary butterfly
Spray Lakes through the wildfire smoke
Smoky sun
A moth and a spider, too
The meadow on a smoky day
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Common Wood-Nymph / Cercyonis pegala


"The common wood-nymph can vary greatly. All individuals are brown with two eyespots on each forewing – the lower one often being larger than the upper one. Some may have many, few, or no eyespots on the ventral surface of the hindwing." From Wikipedia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_wood-nymph
Back to the bio-blitz on Lisa Harbinson' property for my photos tonight. I have just added six extra photos. I really need to get the rest of my suitable shots taken that day edited and posted, so that I can send her the link to my album.
The area we visited on 7 August was an 80-acre site near Bottrel, NW of Calgary. The site consisted of mostly open, low, hilly, ungrazed land, with a few Aspens and Spruce, and willows around three ponds (two of which were dry). On 25 May 2018, four people had visited this site for the first time - I had been unable to go, as I was spending the day with my daughter.
The original visit was the result of the owners winning a free bioblitz at a Silent Auction, in connection with the Ghost Valley Community. A great idea and always a win-win situation, with the land owners learning a lot about what is found on their land, and the leader and participants enjoying a much-appreciated visit to a different location.
We were very lucky to see an adult male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker with two juveniles. I rarely see one of these birds, but love to see the neat rows of small holes that they make on a tree trunk.
Did you know that photographing mushrooms can be dangerous? I believe I knew this already and I was reminded of this on this bio-blitz. Towards the end of our hike, I stopped to photograph a not particularly photogenic mushroom that was growing on a very slight incline. I took one step back to focus better and lost my balance - not sure if my foot went down into a shallow hole or if I was tripped up by one of the many very small, short tree stumps. Whatever the cause, I did a most inelegant, slow-motion fall backwards, hitting my head hard on the ground, surrounded by my friends. Because I was wearing a backpack, I think this resulted in some whiplash, with my head falling back. It was not pleasant to drive anywhere the next day, especially each time I had to start off when traffic lights turned green. The muscles all around my neck and my shoulders are painful, but hopefully it will clear up before too long.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_wood-nymph
Back to the bio-blitz on Lisa Harbinson' property for my photos tonight. I have just added six extra photos. I really need to get the rest of my suitable shots taken that day edited and posted, so that I can send her the link to my album.
The area we visited on 7 August was an 80-acre site near Bottrel, NW of Calgary. The site consisted of mostly open, low, hilly, ungrazed land, with a few Aspens and Spruce, and willows around three ponds (two of which were dry). On 25 May 2018, four people had visited this site for the first time - I had been unable to go, as I was spending the day with my daughter.
The original visit was the result of the owners winning a free bioblitz at a Silent Auction, in connection with the Ghost Valley Community. A great idea and always a win-win situation, with the land owners learning a lot about what is found on their land, and the leader and participants enjoying a much-appreciated visit to a different location.
We were very lucky to see an adult male Yellow-bellied Sapsucker with two juveniles. I rarely see one of these birds, but love to see the neat rows of small holes that they make on a tree trunk.
Did you know that photographing mushrooms can be dangerous? I believe I knew this already and I was reminded of this on this bio-blitz. Towards the end of our hike, I stopped to photograph a not particularly photogenic mushroom that was growing on a very slight incline. I took one step back to focus better and lost my balance - not sure if my foot went down into a shallow hole or if I was tripped up by one of the many very small, short tree stumps. Whatever the cause, I did a most inelegant, slow-motion fall backwards, hitting my head hard on the ground, surrounded by my friends. Because I was wearing a backpack, I think this resulted in some whiplash, with my head falling back. It was not pleasant to drive anywhere the next day, especially each time I had to start off when traffic lights turned green. The muscles all around my neck and my shoulders are painful, but hopefully it will clear up before too long.
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