Andrew Trundlewagon's photos

The April 8th, 2024, eclipse seen from near Montreal. An interesting experience. It got darker slowly, and cold and the wind picked up. Then the sun disappeared completely and suddenly leaving only a black hole where the sun had been and the disk of the corona. Everything gets dark, even the streetlights turn on, and rather eerie. It's very impressive. The eclipse began at 14.14 in the afternoon, but totality, when the sun was covered entirely and we could look directly at the eclipse with the naked eye, lasted only two minutes, from 15.26 and 40 seconds to 15.28 and 42 seconds.

The geese are back. I'm glad to see them return after the winter but really they are a mixed blessing, noisy, messy and awkward.

When winter just won't go away. A big dump of snow in early April.

A white breasted nuthatch on a cold windy day.

To everything its time.

A winter hibiscus in sunlight. It grows indoors through the winter and goes back out to the garden in late spring.

Not sure how to describe this. Silver furniture in a glass box, office towers, a giant metal circle and various reflections. And if you look very hard there are also polar bears.

From the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, a double headed Roman bust, thought to be from the 1st century B.C.E. It may be the double-headed god Janus, or a herm of two distinct deities, but either way it must be useful to be able to see back and front at the same time.

A new winter sport, ski-yoga?

A male cardinal in the garden.

A tiny Chickadee feeding on ice. They are small but tough, staying around all year no matter how cold it gets.

Objects in a freezing pond.

Kicked to the kerb.

Two rather wet blue jays in the snow. At first, I thought this was a mother feeding a youngster, but that didn't seem quite right as the offspring leave the nest in late spring. It turns out that blue jays mate for life and cement their relationship by offering their partners gifts, usually of food. I suspect that is what is happening here.

A hawk in winter.

Winter night.

A male cardinal visiting the garden. A welcome splash of colour in the dark days of winter.

Assembly. (St. Bruno, near Montreal).