Andrew Trundlewagon's photos
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A mourning Dove showing it's "angel" wings. According to internet there are about 475 million mourning doves in N. America, so more doves than people.
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From earlier in the year; a yellow rose (Topaz jewel) after a rain shower. It has a strong perfume and blooms yellow but fades almost to white after a day or two . For years it stopped flowering at all, and I was close to digging it out, but it has come back to life. Some kind of pest has got at the leaves though, and stripped them.
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Spiders (Araneus diadematus) in a mating dance. The male is on the left, the female above. She was not receptive and chased him away.
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The flowers of a button bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), a small tree or shrub growing in the woods.
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A spiderman performer outside the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. There was an exhibition about spiders going on in the museum, so I don't know if he was part of the show, or just taking advantage of the moment.
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A barred owl (Strix varia; chouette rayée), It had noticed something below and moved to get a better look at it, but either decided it wasn't worth the effort to hunt down or was a false alarm as nothing else happened. The woods are dark so the lighting is not great.
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A barred owl (Strix varia; chouette rayée), perched on a branch in the woods, just looking around. The woods are quite dark and not the best lighting for photography.
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A blue heron. It was very focused on whatever it had seen in the water and let me get closer than usual.
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An odd one. A pelecinid wasp (Pelecinus polyturator). She is about two, or two and half inches, in length (6-7cm), although it is hard to tell precisely because the abdomen is curled up. She uses her very long abdomen/ovipositor to penetrate the soil and lay eggs in beetle grubs living underground. (This is a very good thing, we have been infested with beetles destroying the flowers this year). Another example of nature's endless inventiveness.
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A blue hibiscus. New to the garden, it's supposed to be hardy, so fingers crossed it can make it through the winter.
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Frogs on a log.
(What I didn't see until I uploaded the image and looked at in enlarged, is a small spider sharing the log on the left hand side under the frogs chin. It looks as if she might be carrying an egg case?)
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