Caught this Willet foraging in a small pond 🪶🌿📷

A Sanderling patrolling the beach early this morning 🪶🌿📷

A least sandpiper forages for food in a shallow puddle 🌿🪶📷

Fly appreciation post. For a long time my favourite taxon has been diptera or flies, mostly because of the immense variation. Here are 4 of my favourite recent fly shots. 1. Ringed Pixie 2. Antlered flutter fly 3. Eutreta noveboracensis 4. Hystricia abrupta 🌿📷🦋 #inverts #insects #wildlife

Awesome to find a photogenic Wilson's Phalarope in Ontario yesterday. This one was hidden among a large group of various shorebirds. 🪶🌿📷

Young Gray Treefrog hiding on a leaf 🐍🐸🌿📷

A rare Western Grebe spreads it's wings 📷🪶🌿

A few more inverts I found this year 🌿🦋 #inverts #insects #moths 1. Northern Black Widow 2. Orange-barred Carpet Moth 3. Spiny Oak Slug moth 4. Northern Apple Sphinx

Bank Swallows out on the waterfront today 🌿🪶📷

Mothing has quickly become one of my favourite hobbies. So many to see and so much variation. Here are a few of my favourites from my field season 🌿🦋 #inverts #insects #moths 1. Arched Hooktip 2. Elegant Prominent 3. Nais Tiger Moth 4. Promethea Silk moth

Some pretty amazing insects at the field research site this year! #insect 🦋🪲🪰 1. Oidematops ferrugineus 2. Elfin Skimmer 3. unidentified pygmy grasshopper 4. Antelope Beetle

I heard Blue jays calling and investigated to see what was bothering them. Turns out a Gray ratsnake had climbed their tree. Gray rats are shockingly adept climbers and can often be found in tree branches. 🐍📷🌿

Have you ever seen a Ruffed Grouse having a bath? I caught this Grouse, having a dust bath on the side of the road. 🪶🌿📷

A few highlights from my most recent lakewatch. Wilson's Phalarope and Hudsonian Whimbrels 🪶🌿📷

Nice to get a Lark Sparrow today in Ontario 🪶🌿📷

A piping plover foraging the beach from this morning 🪶🌿📷

I had an incredible once in a lifetime experience when a Willow Ptarmigan came walking up to me. I hid behind a tree about 50 feet away to keep some distance and then it ran up to me. Never been so scared I'd flush a bird. I stood still as a statue until he left. 📷🪶🌿

An Eastern Garter Snake making a meal out of an American Toad. Found as part of the London City Nature Challenge for iNat 🐍🌿📷

Angry Merlin I found watching me on my way to work 🪶🌿📷

Black-bellied Whistling ducks out in Ontario today! 🪶🌿📷

Killdeer flights this morning 🪶🌿📷

Nice to get my first Eastern Towhee of the year last weekend. The birds return!🪶🌿📷

Red-necked Grebes have started mating! 🪶🌿📷

Had a nice American Wigeon out on the lake 🪶🌿📷

Uhhh Am I interrupting? Caught some Cooper's hawks mating today🪶🌿📷

The upside of flooding on campus, Beavers! 🦊🌿📷

Brown Creeper just outside my office this morning 🪶🌿📷

Had to make a quick roadside stop when I saw this distant Snowy Owl off the highway. 🪶🌿📷

Thanks @tisoffwork.bsky.social for taking me to this gem. Here’s my proof that I was there too haha

Always nice to see a surprise afternoon Rusty Blackbird 🪶🌿📷