Jack and I decided to walk along the creek today and we found a big surprise. Goslings! They’re very young and we could only find the one family today, but there will certainly be more soon.
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Nectar. Narciso, Portuguese for any plant of the genus Narcissus.
A photo from earlier this Spring showing a flower fly feeding on the nectar of a Narcissus flower of the “Bridal Crown” variety. This double daffodil variety produces long-lasting flowers with a delightful scent. They’re gone now and I miss them already.
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From Giliell, click for full size!
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Mourning Dove, click for full size.
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We spied on one of the swans while he was preening this morning. Well, I spied on the swan while Jack was sniffing the lawn.
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Meadow. Margaridas, Portuguese for daisies.
I will not dare to identify these to the genus level, there are many look-alikes in the Asteraceae family. They are lovely wild daisies, that’s all.
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All my latest flowers from Rick.
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Western broad-tail, male, in the apple orchard from Kestrel, click for full size!
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She lands first. Then he, about a foot away.
He looks at her sideways and puffs himself up. She looks at him sideways and hops away.
He hops to her again and raises his beak to the sky while glancing at her sideways. She raises her beak too and also glances at him sideways.
They repeat the throat display with lots of sideways glances. Once. Twice. Then she hops away again.
He hop follows her and puffs himself up again. One more throat display and then suddenly they fly away, she first and he hot on her tail.
Enter the next pair (or the same pair…it’s hard to tell) and repeat.
This has been going on all day and I can hardly tear myself away from the window. My back fence is definitely a hot pick-up place for grackles this year. I can hardly wait to see all the babies. (photos taken by spy cam through the bedroom window)
I thought I’d share a few more Ontario wildflowers today.
Jack-in-the-pulpit
Trout lily
Mayapple
Bloodroot
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Lichen. Líquen.
Only slightly different spellings in English and Portuguese to refer to this fascinating symbiotic relationship between fungi and photosynthetic microorganisms (cyanobacteria or algae). As far as I was able to determine, this moss-like lichen belongs to the genus Cladonia.
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A warm and lovely Persimmon tree from Lofty, click for full size!
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