Out this morning doing birdy things at -20C windchill. Mad, yes perhaps but we enjoy it. This tree is on the entrance road to the Arboretum and I have photographed it several times over the years but this is the best, I think. Nothing wrong with my older cameras, nothing at all, but this new one finds colours and details the others can’t really manage. Great 3-D effect too.
To help with the Nature Conservancy Of Canada five nation; “Bioblitz” we spent some time in Arboretum identifying species … this was one of the stars. Their caterpillars grow on wild violets on the edges of woodland.
May at Blossom Corner is always a profitable place to be if you want to watch birds
Just past their best if you like eating ‘fiddleheads’
Sometimes there is a hawk perched in this tree so it’s always worth checking – not today though. Just admire the tree for its own sake.
A view that regular visitors here will recognise – along the hedgerow that leads to the bird banding station. Very deep snow on this occasion, even with snowshoes we were up to our knees in it.
Many years after its demise … helped along by woodpeckers
A bramble bush almost ready to drop its leaves – so much colour this year
The remnants of a pile of cut logs caught our eyes today. Looks very much as if the pile has been remodelled for gnomes with rows of moss and turf-roofed houses and lanes between them.
A week ago these trees were heavy with gloriously golden leaves. Last night the temperature dropped to -2C and this morning all the leaves are on the ground. There was ice in puddles. Snow can’t be far away.
