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401 towards london by jack chambers, 1968-69

north americans will literally have religious experiences about highways

#only culture to come from london Ontario #this is actually on the overpass in Woodstock #it's all built up now but they're a similar view near Ingersoll

There's a little meadow vole under this flowerpot!

#biology #zoology #ecology #animals #mammals #why did tumblr compress this so much

Planktonic and benthic freshwater invertebrates collected in late fall from a shallow, still area of a slow-moving river in southeastern Canada.

Female cyclops with external egg sacs and visible heart, with common duckweed. Subphylum Crustacea.

Amphipod (Gammaridae), subphylum Crustacea

Planarian (unknown species)

Ostracod (seed shrimp), another crustacean

Cyclops

Cyclops with common duckweed

Planarian (maybe Girardia? No clue)

#microscopy #biology #zoology #invertebrates #ecology

Piping plover

Charadrius melodus

Nonesuch River, ME

#piping plover #plover #bird #wildlife photography #maine

#maine #ocean #photography

Bucksport, Maine

#maine #hancock county #bucksport

lady-amherst

Cambodia, August

#i should've made this my main blog but whatever we'll do it this way

lady-amherst

Malaysia

#top right is the fellow who got me into going around the woods at night

#lake ontario #storm

Came out of the woods in the blackness of the early hibernal morning, losing feeling to the cold. Woke up by the beach to an owl hooting at me. He then (upon realising that I could not be reasoned with) took off into the night. Later, I was propped up under the incandescent lights of a hideous fast food joint pretending to eat a pancake, and an old guy sat across from me, asked if I'm an immigrant and then started going on about GMOs. There was a pause, and I realised that I ought to say something. I asked myself, what would Dasha say.

"It's the seed oils that get you"

A moment of tension. And then he nodded sagely. I left the town at daybreak, on the first bus. I hate that bloody podcast.

It was already dark when I reached the centre of Pinery Provincial Park, and it was silent except for the chatter of southern flying squirrels (Glaucomys volans), the deep calls of great horned owls, and the piercing screams of screech-owls. I could see the pale forms of the flushed squirrels in the beam of my torch silently gliding away into the oaks.

A few km further, past the edge of the woods, I found open sand dunes along the shore of Lake Huron.

#photographers on tumblr #zoology #nature photography #squirrels #ecology #mammals #i cut some of the prose but it still seems too wordy #mammalwatching

Actually kicking myself I had my DSLR with me and took a beautiful photo of a cave mouth with ferns, except for some reason I used my smartphone camera so the details are irreversibly blown out

#photographers on tumblr

Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia

#birblr #birds #wildlife #nature photography #canada

Yellow-rumped Warbler Setophaga coronata

There is a swarm of these calling from the streamside cherry and willow trees. Most of them are just stopping over during their migrations, and will be gone in a few days, until the fall. A few will probably stay.

#birds #wildlife #canada #nature photography #birdblr

Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia

Every April, the New World (Parulid) warblers migrate north from the tropics in a unified wave, with individuals dispersing into their breeding grounds along the way. The wavefront is currently passing over the Great Lakes region, and this thicket was filled with calling migrants like this male yellow warbler.

#nature photography #canada #birblr #birding #wildlife

Eastern meadowlark Sturnella magna

Found off in the distance while owl-watching (no owls). There's a really nice variety of open-country birds here.

#birds #birblr #wildlife #nature photography #niagara #field

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