canyakker

canyakker, 22 days ago to random

Something wrong with Mastodon or my laptop, or some recent updates? Lots of error messages, can't upload a photo, took forever to load my timeline, not even showing photos. Has been a problem already for a few days.

NunavutBirder, 11 days ago to random

Delilah Qapik Kines Amaaq. Welcome to the world. It’s a place filled with wonder and beauty. Always look at it through the eyes of the child.

You and I, we’re going to have adventures.

canyakker, 1 year ago to random German

Ein Ameisenlöwe /Bellied Antlion (Brachynemurus abdominalis) zum
#InsektenSamstag. Mein erster und einziger Fund bisher. Das kleine Raubtier, das im Sandtrichter auf Ameisen lauert, ist seine Larve.
#InsectSaturday #nature #NaturePhotography #fujifilm

canyakker, 1 month ago to random

I didn't expect to find this today: my first ever Morel/Morchel (Morchella angusticeps).
Now I have to look for a recipe fit for the occasion.

Vertical photo)

#fungi #Pilze #foraging

canyakker, 3 months ago to Mushrooms

One of my favourite mushroom finds: the Blue Stain Fungus (Chlorociboria aeruginosa). It grows on rotting wood.

#fungi #mushrooms #MacroPhotography

canyakker, 11 months ago to Battlemaps

Red berries are everywhere in the bush now: raspberries, strawberries, ... and these, not edible, berries: Red Baneberry (Actaea rubra) and Northern Bush Honeysuckle (Lonicera canadensis).
#forest #plants #botany

Two red berries fused together on the end of a pin growing from between two leaves.

canyakker, 5 months ago to Birds

Long lens shot down the road: a Pileated Woodpecker inspecting a wooden fence built from pines cut down a few years ago. Lots of holes/worms already in the wood.
Our local crow tried to chase him off but Woodpecker held his ground 💪 .

#birds #birdwatching #nature

canyakker, 1 year ago to ontario

A large Mirage/Fata Morgana on the horizon of the North Channel of Lake Huron yesterday, mirroring islands with trees, maybe. Looks like a long bridge but there is no bridge.
They are fairly common on the Great Lakes.
#sky #Mirage #Ontario

canyakker, 1 year ago to random

It's raining cats and dogs.
A pair of Crows have befriended us. They show up to ask for a peanut in exchange for a photo.
Works well for both sides 🙂 .
#birds #BirdPhotography

canyakker, 10 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

canyakker, 9 months ago to nature

Slimemold season is here 😍. This orange patch on a rotting log was about 3 cm long. I think is Salmon Eggs Slime Mold (Hemitrichia decipiens). They move along the wood to eat bacteria and algae, and help decomposing it.
#slimemold #nature #macro #MacroPhotography

canyakker, 1 month ago to random

Why is filing taxes always so stressful? Even if you don't even do it yourself?
Asking for a friend 🙄 .

canyakker, 1 year ago to ontario

A curious Red Fox on the move.

#52WochenFotoChallenge
2023/10 Tier
@norberteder
#wildlifephotography #Ontario

canyakker, 2 months ago to nature

I noticed quite a few trees that had been debarked higher up in their crowns.
That's the work of a Porcupine aka Stachelschwein.
Beavers eat bark from the ground up, Porcupines start from a safer height further up.

#nature #porcupine #SignsAndTracks

canyakker, 1 month ago to nature

Found this pretty Northern Ground-Cedar yesterday. It's a Club Moss and neither a cedar nor a moss.
They are some of the oldest plants on Earth, once tree-sized, a few hundred million years ago.

#Mosstodon #nature

canyakker, 2 months ago to Birds

The Redpolls show more reds now! A bitter cold wind is blowing from the North, and a few small birds have found their way into the garden. With wind-ruffled feathers and fluffed up, they fill up at the feeder.

#birds #winter #nature #Ontario

canyakker, 7 months ago to random

Trumpet Lichen. There's room to grow in the smallest of cracks.

#LichenSubscribe #Mosstodon #NaturePhotograhpy

canyakker, 5 months ago to random

Ice forming on a little brook.

vertical photo

#ice #winter

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canyakker, 11 months ago to nature

The Bee-mimic Beetle aka Hairy Flower Scarab (Trichiotinus assimilis) is gathering nectar and pollen.
#insects #beetles #nature

canyakker, 9 months ago to ontario

It was a hazy, grey day with some rain sprinkled in, perfect to get the long exposure waterfall photos I had in mind.
This is the Aux Sables River in Chutes Provincial Park.
The thundering sound of a waterfall is soothing. I could sleep right beside it.

#waterfall #Ontario #fujifilm #NaturePhotography

canyakker, 29 days ago to Birds

Handsome dude in the oak tree. The American Goldfinch males have put on their best colours now.

#birds #birdwatching #nature

canyakker, 9 months ago to macrophotography

While taking this photo of a Greenshield Lichen a Pileated Woodpecker hammered away above me and dropped the big woodchips on my head 🤨.

#lichensubscribe #macro #MacroPhotography #nature

canyakker, 10 months ago to random

Like raindrops falling on water:
I love the patterns Water Striders (Aquarius remigis) make when walking on water.
They are predatory insects hunting mosquitos and other little bugs.

#bugs #insects

canyakker, 7 months ago to Mushrooms

My eyes could barely spot the Snowfleas aka Springtails (Hypogastrura nivicola), about 1.5 mm small.
On the computer, zooming, I saw rows of even smaller Fairy Pins (Phaeocalicium ?), a lichen. It looks like the Springtails feed on them.
All of this is happening on a little bracket mushroom about 3 cm across.
This tiny world boggles my mind.
Vertical photo.

#macro #fungi #mushrooms #lichensubscribe #arthropods

canyakker, 11 months ago to wildflowers

And .... we have Monarchs 🦋 🐛 😍 !
I found three caterpillars on the Milkweed in the garden, all different sizes, one of them looks ready to pupate.
There have been very few sightings of the butterflies so far this year.
#butterflies #monarchs #wildflowers #nature