I went out birdwatching this morning with my co-worker Deb. It was a gray, cold morning (only 5°C) but the wind was very sharp and bitter. We quickly decided not to stay very long at the river (despite there being an interesting group of shorebirds on the mudflats and a great mass of gulls on the water) because the wind coming off the river was ( Read more... )

I've been working on my website (still not up yet) and a new LJ to be tied to my website ( Read more... )

I submitted my third photo this month to CWF's Reflections of Nature photography contest today. This one was of a mallard duck standing guard outside his nest in the swamp (not that you could see the nest because it was hidden by cattails ( Read more... )

I checked out the CWF's Reflections of Nature website today to see if they had chosen a winner for June. Turns out they have... obviously neither of my photos won. While the bull moose one is great and deserved to win, I think the photo of the fawn - while cute and adorable - just isn't as moving ( Read more... )

I would enter this photo into the CWF photo contest if this species of columbine (Aquilegia flabellata) were native to Canada. The rain finally stopped so I took terraprime's advice and took some pictures of the columbine in my front garden with the raindrops still on it. This flower has been in bloom for about a week now - I love it, the colour is so ( Read more... )

I went hiking with my friend Tanya today and we saw the darnedest thing....a beaver high up in a tree, eating berries. I kid you not - I have the photos to prove it!!!! They were taken with the binoculars, and are the best photos to turn out with them so far ( Read more... )

So I got a few pictures from my hike this afternoon. ( Enjoy. (Warning - contains graphic images of snakes!) )