Thomasburg Walks

I didn't know how little I knew this plain little bird. Every year I watch for the Pine Siskins, and almost every year, late in the migration or early in the winter I see one or two, or even a fe...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2009/01/siskins.html

Just making a few changes--posting may resume soon.

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2008/12/renovations.html

It's been a while, but so much is happening now that spring is well underway (or nearly over) I thought I better start doing some updating.The ceiling of the front porch has been deteriorating ra...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2008/06/porch-spiders-end-of-era.html

If it's the end of another month, then it's time for the circus, Circus of the Spineless, a monthly collection of the best of invertebrate blogging from around the world. The latest edition (the ...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/09/circus-of-spineless-rides-again.html

International Rock-flipping Day (IRFD) really was international. The following is a list of blog posts and links to a couple of image sites (courtesy of via negativa), reporting/revealing what we...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/09/who-flipped-rocks.html

The day started well. I was out in the yard looking for the noisy Blue Jay family I could hear in the elms when I saw some other birds flitting to and fro--turned out to be a couple of Scarlet Ta...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/09/international-rock-flipping-day.html

Dave of Via Negativa has called for September 2 to be designated International Rock-flipping Day: a day for everybody to go outside — go as far as you have to — and flip over a rock (or two, ...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/08/flip-some-rocks-on-september-2.html

I first saw this butterfly on a couple of occasions a couple of weeks ago--"what a big swallowtail that is," I thought to myself, "Not a tiger swallowtail either, and look at that strange yellow ...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/08/giant-swallowtail-in-thomasburg.html

I found this on a baseball cap that was lying on the floor on the porch. On disturbance it started motoring along the concrete floor towards the wall of the house. That didn't seem good, so I enc...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/08/friday-hornworm.html

This week John (of New Jersey) of A DC Birding Blog tagged me with a birder's meme (originated by Cogresha of Earth House Hold, a new blog to me, and worth checking out). The form is simple, just...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/08/birders-blog-meme.html

Now that the goldenrod is blooming I've been looking for a yellow goldenrod crab spider doing what its name suggests it should. This morning I found one, mature, yellow and working the goldenrod-...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/08/friday-spider.html

I was out in the backyard the other night with a flashlight in my hand when a really big moth flew by in front of me and landed on the edge of a garden bed. Early in the season I saw a big sphinx...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/08/sphinx-moth.html

This pretty creature visited the porch the other day, and happily walked all over my hands. If only macro shots of my hands were more flattering I'd post one here. Instead, here it is walking on ...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/08/friday-walkingstick.html

Everyone seemed to be doing it this year, so I gave it a try. I collected a couple of Monarch caterpillars (Danaus plexippus), and a few eggs and brought them in to watch them develop, and take t...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-first-butterfly.html

A few weeks ago there was big news (something about a client list) in the DC Madam case--a legal case involving a woman of a different name who ran an escort agency with the rather familiar name ...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/08/traffic-and-american-dagger-moth.html

Thomasburg is a small hamlet in the Municipality of Tweed in eastern Ontario. Behind my home here is a fallow field, swamp, cedar bush, old apple orchard and woods. Almost every day I take the same walk through this territory to see who's been by, and try to figure out what they've been up to.

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/07/flower-crab-spider-on-geranium-blossom.html

I'm with Clare on this--where does the time go? Another great year of I and the Bird has passed--another year of great collections every two weeks of the best of bird and birder blogging, hosted ...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/07/i-and-bird-second-anniversary-edition.html

After a quiet period there's been quite a bit of singing lately as the birds who nest again started getting ready. So I was determined to get out for a bit of birdwatching. I did, and saw lots, b...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/07/three-crab-spiders.html

The Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta rubria) common butterfly around here, I believe, but this year there have been more than usual.This one looked and acted like today was its first as a butterfly.

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/07/tuesday-butterfly-red-admiral.html

A July bioblitz of the Rosa rugosa alba in the yard would take hours and hours, and could be done every day and produce new results each day. And this rose bush, about 2 metres high and almost as...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/07/more-from-rugosa-world.html

I'm pretty sure that this is the Acadian Hairstreak (Satyrium acadica). I would be absolutely sure except that the underside of the wings of this butterfly look more light brown than grey (a feat...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/07/friday-hairstreak.html

Circus of the Spineless #22, now up at Burning Silo. Be sure to stop by and take a look; it's a gorgeous collection of the best of last month's invertebrate posts from around the blogosphere. But...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/07/circus-is-back-in-town.html

One of the ambassador spiders at Spider Web Watch is the Misumena vatia, or goldenrod crab spider. So far, I've observed ten different individuals of this lovely species, seven of which are livin...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/06/misumena-vatia.html

First, it's that time again, I and the Bird #52 is up at The Wandering Tattler. another splendid collection of the best of recent bird and birder blogging: the completely non-geeky edition. Check...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/06/birder-blogging-news_30.html

Last week I was alerted by a message Bev of Burning Silo sent to the Eastern Ontario Naturelist to look for the Brilliant Jumping Spider (Phidippus clarus) on milkweed. (Here's a link to one of h...

http://thomasburg-walks.blogspot.com/2007/06/jumping-spiders.html