PLEASE KEEP ON THE GRASS! LIE DOWN! ROLL AROUND IN IT! FORGET ALL YOUR RESPONSIBILITES! — Through Open Lens

F/7.1, 1/200, ISO 400. Northern Flicker What do you call a Happy Cowboy? A Jolly Rancher Interesting Fact: Northern Flickers don’t act like typical woodpeckers. They mainly forage on the ground, sometimes among sparrows and blackbirds. When flushed, flickers often perch erect on thin horizontal branches rather than hitching up or around a tree trunk. …

Wild Beauty

We're now into the early days of summer and everywhere you look around the Parry Sound area, roadsides, ditches and meadows are filled with a beautiful collage of wildflowers.  Pollinators are busy collecting nectar, songbirds are singing the joys of warm days and new life, and the living is indeed easy, and a feast for …

Chestnut-Backed Chickadee — nature has no boss

Hearing the Chickadees calling in the trees above our heads we expected to look up and see either a black-capped or mountain chickadee as we had seen them earlier this day. However to our surprise we we greeted by this little Chestnut-Backed Chickadee looking down at us and hunting insects just above our heads. The […] …

Playero Pectoral/Pectoral Sandpiper/Calidris melanotos — Birds Colombia: 820 especies hoy

Nombre en español: Playero Pectoral Nombre en ingles: Pectoral Sandpiper Nombre científico: Calidris melanotos Familia: Scolopacidae Foto: Diego Rivera/Felipe Vargas Canto: Andrew Spencer El correlimos pectoral (Calidris melanotos) es una especie de ave limícola de la familia Scolopacidae. Es de tamaño mediano, más grande que la mayoría de las especies del género. Es claramente visible …

5: Phytoplankton- the lungs of the ocean — Notebook from the North

Various forms of life on earth are united by one particular need, this being the need for energy. For many creatures, this is done through a wonderful biological process, one of my favourites in fact. This is eating… On land we can look at a basic example of a food chain, which shows how energy […] …