Monday was a beautiful spring day so we went to Skerryvore to see what we could see. This is some of what we saw:
Canada Goose incubating eggs on a distant (~100 m) beaver lodge in the pond across from Big (Gereaux) Lake:
Reindeer lichen — Cladonia rangiferina — which I don’t think I’ll collect as its uses don’t appeal to me:
Fiddleheads forming. I eat Ostrich ferns, well cooked. It would be a special treat if I could find some morels to make a cream sauce for the fiddleheads.
We need an insectologist (?) to identify this pollinator:
Basking in the sun:
A wasp (another task for a hymenopterist) pollinating a wild strawberry:
Lonicera canadensis (Fly Honeysuckle) is starting to bloom:
Down by Deshevy’s Farm this pair was turning the clumps of grass for morsels:
As I was leaving I spotted this kite and tried out the new lens:
As I had the lens poking up into the sky this Sandhill went skooting by. My first “Bird In Flight” with that lens, a fluke. I will practice some more with it as it has good potential. Maybe I’ll be able to emulate Ray T., a Sudbury BIF expert.
A nice reflection along Skerryvore Road:
This morning I got this X rated posting from Mary Holland in my email. Rough?
And ….
This coming Saturday, May 14th!
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What a strange monster you have photographed in…Fiddleheads forming. I love Fiddleheads but can’t see them in that twisted contraption you have photographed. And your two cranes look like they’re have a domestic! Ha! Well done.
Are you referring to Mr Fuzzy Wuzzy resting his chin on Mrs Fuzzy Wuzzy as they hug their two kids? 🙂
Mr and Mrs Sandhill Crane are scanning BOTH sides of the field for plump lumps of last fall’s grass and ended up going to the right, behind a bush, much to the chagrin of the photographer. When they emerged they seemed to be in domestic bliss. I have no information what happened behind the bush.
Photographs are supposed to stimulate the imagination aren’t they? Yes! According to Jacob Bronowski! See: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~bccorey/105%20Folder/The%20Reach%20of%20Imagine.pdf
Interesting article. You give me lots of fodder for exercising my imagination in your posts. Mr and Mrs Fuzzy Wuzzy would make a great children’s book. You should be writing stories to go with these incredible pictures.
Tom, Spring brings such “delights” after the long Winter. I enjoy Mary Holland’s informative Blog. Thank you for these pix as well as your commentary!!!! (you are doing well with your new lens)
Thank you, Krys.
Yes, the new lens is eagerly awaiting the arrival of the warblers from Central America. In the meantime I am practicing with it and enjoying it very much. Another bright day today to enjoy — before the arrival of the wet cold front this weekend. Perhaps warblers next week?
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