Andrew Trundlewagon's photos with the keyword: park

People in a park. Toronto (photo taken by my wife)

A heron that has taken up residence in a local park.

On the alert. A young deer in the long grass.

A yellow iris growing in a damp, shady spot in the woods.

Verbascum thapsus, the great mullein, is a European plant that has adapted very successfully to living in N. America as a fairly common weed.

A certain sign of Spring, the frogs are spawning. A Northern leopard frog with spawn (Lithobates pipiens or Rana pipiens/ Grenouille léopard)

Ducks are supposed to fly South for winter, but there was a small group that might not have read the memo and stayed all through the year.

Waiting for spring; a duck on a frozen pond.

Proud parents. A family of Canada geese.

A young deer foraging in the snow.

A completely rational way to park a rusty bike.

These lavender coloured pea-like flowers are American groundnuts (Apios Americana) and were found growing as a vine in the sand along the shores of the beach in Oka Park in Quebec. The beans and roots of this plant are highly nutritious and were eaten by native Americans and early settlers.

A solitary orange butterfly weed growing in the long grass. This is a member of the milkweed family, and is often visited by butterflies, bees, and, I'm told, by humming birds. Don Mills Valley, North York, Toronto.

These are cardinal flowers ( Lobelia cardinalis ) growing in the sand at Oka beach near Montreal. The bright red wild flowers are pollenated by humming birds. It's the first time I have found them so I was enormously pleased when I stumbled upon them. (I was looking for frogs at the time). Oka is a fresh water beach on a bulge in the Ottawa river near where it joins the St Lawrence river called the Lake of Two Mountains. Cardinal flowers are in the lobelia family. I didn't have a camera with me so these were taken on a phone camera.

A black capped chickadee, a very lively bird that stays over the winter.

Deer, St Bruno park, near Montreal

Deer feasting on young shoots in St Bruno park near Montreal

Trout lily. A spring plant of the forest floor. St Bruno near Montreal. It can take as long as seven years growth before these plants flower. It is said to be called the trout lily because the mottled and flecked appearance of the leaves looks like trout skin. I don't see the similarity myself.