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Insect and bird photographer.


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#DamselflyJuly #Inverts #Dragonflies #Nature

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Bring out your raptors 🪶🌿🦅

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#PhotographyBreak
Bain Berry or eyeballs on a stick in the rain.

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#InsectThursday #Inverts #Nature
#Butterflies
A new Red Admiral

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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekA #Butterflies #Nature #Inverts
A is for American Lady

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I have the soundtrack on vinyl. Mostly because of the cramps song .

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#TinyTuesday #TwoForTuesday
This is a 2 fer, which is different than a 2 4 . lol you must be Canadian.

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#DamselflyJuly #Inverts #nature

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#DamselflyJuly #Inverts #nature

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#Inverts #Nature #Butterflies
#PhotographyBreak
Bumpin Butterflies

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It is when I can find them . They don’t always cooperate.

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It’s listed as rare . I’ve seen two in 5 years .

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So this funny looking Mantis Fly spent 3 days on the same flower . Any bug folks know what could be going on ? Maybe the food was good. #nature #Inverts

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They rarely do . Thank you

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Went out photographing bugs , birds and whatever. There’s a place near Kirkfield Ontario called Carden Alvar. Many unique birds , plants , insects . Tons of wildflowers , unfortunately there’s poison ivy mixed in . The birds have mostly fledged. A nice viceroy though.

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#PhotographyBreak #nature
Love the Beavers 🦫

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They all are until you get too close.

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I have those on vinyl.

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Have you tried iNaturalist ? Not always accurate but helpful .

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I had to look those up because I never heard of them. Turns out one is an Eastern Pond Hawk and the other a Halloween Pennant which I never see . Different names for different areas or research books I guess. Tons of pond hawks around this year.

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I like dragonflies #Invertebrates #Dragonflies

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I found some and planted them with black petunias.

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#SundayYellow #Nature #Inverts

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#PollinatorWeek #Inverts #Butterflies #Nature

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You might get a great sunset tonight

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Member of the Pelecinid family

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#nature Having a snack

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#PollinatorWeek #Invertebrates #nature

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I love those little cranesbills and so the green bees .

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#Invertebrates #Dragonflies #nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social
Finally found some blue . It was cloudy which seems to bring out the blue .

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#PollinatorWeek #Invertebrates #nature
A giant Black Wasp

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I have a feeder like that and they won’t use it . I must put up the plastic ones that look like crap .

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I will trust your eyes . 😀

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They are rare indeed. White red tails could be more common.

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I see them but rarely in a tree .

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Alex Weir played guitar on stop making sense by Talking Heads .

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##PollinatorWeek #Inverts #Spiders
So I think that spiders can become a pollinator . As you can see this one is covered in pollen and is shooting a web to another flower.

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Traffic here sucks , doesn’t matter what route you take . Instead of fixing things they will spend a million dollars on Dundas square.

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Quite a few of those lofts were in what is now Liberty Village. As well as a few other things.

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Does anyone need a hug on #TinyTuesday #Nature

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It’s been years since I’ve been on King st or a streetcar and I live in East York .

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Do you know the name ? I have similar bees here but can’t I’d them .

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Thank you and the same for you .

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My knee and yes patience helps . Cheers

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#Inverts #spiders
I have never seen a spider in a buttercup. Anyone else?

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That looks painful. I got this in February. Things are much better.

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#PollinatorWeek #Inverts #Butterflies

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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekY
Y is for yellow

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We adopted a cat that loved cantaloupe.

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That almost looks like Roman nougat from when I was a kid.

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