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Tranquil
It's been so calm and peaceful here by the time we get out for our nightly drive. Here's a Sundog (parhelion) from last night, downstream of Marcil Lake.
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Friday construction post – now on any day of the week.
We're in the house. Well, "in the house" is overstating it, we've taken possession of it, a couple of days late, but no mind. And true to buying well used homes, there's more work there than we thought. Much of our work can't get going until sealift when we've got a ton of supplies coming…
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Proud to be Canadian
Happy Canada Day everyone. Although I miss wearing Red Serge every July 1st, I know I'm a lucky man to live in a special part of a special country. As Queen Elizabeth II said today at the celebrations in Ottawa (which was produced by my cousin by the way) this country "… has dedicated itself…
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Naughty knots and guileful geese
If you've followed the couple of posts I wrote on discovering a couple of Red Knots with what appears to be the antennae from radio tags on them, its generated some interest amongst the Red Knot Working Group. It appears more and more likely that I happened upon two of the only twenty radio tagged…
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Fishing for them Ugly fish
Last night Frank and Leah May had their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, and part of the games involved a mini fish derby for Sculpin.
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Flower season is beginning in earnest
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Trailing – Update
It looks as though it is quite plausible that the Red Knots were wearing radio tags, although I'd dearly love to get a better look at them. Barry Truitt is a Chief Conservation Scientist with the Nature Conservancy. He is involved in tagging Red Knots and was kind enough to answer my questions about Red…
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Horned Lark
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Handsome fellow
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Catkin and Caterpillar
Tiny caterpillar on Arctic Willow catkin.
