Andrew Trundlewagon's photos

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25 Sep 2022 21 20 199
A little downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens).

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17 Sep 2022 10 5 150
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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23 Aug 2022 5 3 124
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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24 Aug 2022 3 1 116
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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04 Sep 2022 13 4 150
Ran into this deer in the woods.

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26 Aug 2022 11 9 189
The ripe fruit of a pokeweed proved irresistible to the ladybirds.

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27 Aug 2022 16 5 159
The flowers of a button bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), a small tree or shrub growing in the woods.

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23 Sep 2018 10 7 170
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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20 Aug 2022 15 10 180
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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20 Aug 2022 7 3 144
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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17 Aug 2022 11 7 153
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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14 Aug 2022 11 9 139
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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14 Aug 2022 8 4 119
The lawnmower, a small rabbit in the backyard.

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11 Aug 2022 13 8 202
A male Cardinal in the garden.

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06 Aug 2022 11 3 135
Part of a small swarm of bees that had settled at the base of a rock.

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05 Aug 2022 14 7 123
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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06 Aug 2022 5 1 101
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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06 Aug 2022 6 2 103
Frog in a pond, just hanging out.

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