Wanderin' Weeta (With Waterfowl and Weeds)

I think these are my favourite mushrooms: delicate, creamy, gilled mushrooms with pie-crust edges and a "navel".  Except that they're not really mushrooms; they're the fungal component, the fr...

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 It's always exasperating, when I follow a road into the bush, to find that it has been used as an unauthorized trash dump. I was turning the car around at the end of one of these roads, this on...

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"Moist to wet woods, streambanks, shaded open areas ..." "Moist forests ... and mossy bluff ledges and river boulders ..." So say my guidebook and E-FloraBC , about where to find trilliums. Not ...

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I always keep an eye out for spiders. There don't seem to be as many around these days so I was happy to find two on the beach the other day. Thin-legged wolf spiders, Pardosa sp. , probably P. l...

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 End of April. In the protected meadow at Oyster Bay Shoreline Park , the first leaves and flower buds raise their heads above the dry moss. There's yarrow, just leaves, so far; white flowers so...

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 Seen at Miracle Beach: White-crowned sparrow on a log. Sandpipers in toe-deep water. And a gull overhead, wheeling, wheeling. ~~~~~~~~~~ Pájaros vistos en la playa, sin comenta...

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I don't know whether to laugh or to rant. I had walked along Miracle Beach at a very low tide; a long walk, zigzagging up and down, dodging slippery patches of seaweeds and loose rocks, going "ju...

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There was a hummingbird on the tip of a branch of a pear tree, just close enough to see her shape. The camera would do better, but by the time I'd taken off the lens cap, she had gone next door, ...

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 Well, that was quick. A couple of days ago , I said I would look at the pores on a possible turkey tail polypore "next time". And then yesterday, a friend gave me one she had found a month ago,...

https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2024/04/with-little-help-from-my-friends.html

 Licorice ferns, Polypodium glycyrrhiza, on old roots dangling down a dripping side hill. With mosses and powdery lichens. We see this fern growing mostly on mossy tree trunks, usually big...

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 "Looks like turkey tail." I've had to say this often, seeing these mushrooms.  "Probably turkey tail."  Turkey tail colours are variable, depending on their age, and they are often colonize...

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 Detail of a pile of sun-bleached driftwood on the lake shore. Just because. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Un poco de un montón de troncos y ramas dejados al borde del lago, blanqueados por el sol. No m�...

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 Sometimes I'm in too much of a hurry. I kept up a good pace following a trail through the woods beside the lake. Dry woods, young (second-growth? Third?) Douglas-fir trees; the understory was m...

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View from the shore of Upper Campbell Lake, mid-island, 50°N, -125°W, filling a long valley 221 metres above sea level, mid-April, 2024. The water is low, with plants that I usually see growing...

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I walked yesterday on the shore of Upper Campbell Lake; a warm, sunny day, too bright, and I wandered down faint trails in the shade under the evergreens. There, a pair of Steller's jays found me...

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 10 days. I've been mostly shut in, sleeping or wishing I were sleeping, promising myself to post "tomorrow", for 10 days. I'm awake now, I think. Outside, the winter's bare branches are cloth...

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The day was cloudy but warm, around 10°C. I was heading out to do a bit of weeding and edge trimming. Didn't get far. A deer was browsing on the edge of the lawn next door. She stopped to look a...

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Sparrows gettting their veggies: Immature golden-crowned sparrow, with a beakful. Yum! Sparrows are omnivorous . Insects, spiders, seeds, fruit, grains ... And in the spring, they like ...

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Outside my kitchen window, the mock orange and the hydrangea show off new leaves; beside the carport, the perfume of purple hyacinths greets me and the bleeding hearts, tall now, have new flower ...

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 Where the Campbell River reaches the salt chuck, it opens out into a series of sloughs and mudflats, prime fishing and dabbling sites for waterfowl and seals. At the outer end, Tyee Spit forms ...

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 I was standing in the snowy forest, nose to a tree trunk, when a woman came over the hill. She called out to me, "Where's the trail?" Without turning away from my bit of old bark, I pointed; ov...

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In that halfway time between winter and spring, when it doesn't know whether to rain or snow, when clouds come and go, giving glimpses of blue sky and sunshine that never last. At Eve River (Para...

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Every now and then I come across these huge, messy, broken mushrooms. They're dark brown, sometimes almost black, almost shapeless, looking like stacked cow pies. And they hide in the darkest cor...

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 Backyard birding ... A sunny afternoon, almost spring. The lawn is green, the flower beds and veggie garden still bare. Seedling pots laid out, with seed packets promising summer goodies. Und...

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 Down there, in the mud, the sun is shining. Or should it be, "Up there"? Just a puddle beside the trail. Down at human level, all was dim and brown, mud and dead leaves, lichen-coated but...

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