humble round beast 🪱

Screen capture from a map of urban trees in Halifax. It shows mostly a mix of maples, oaks, elms and lindens along the streets. But Downtown Halifax has almost no trees except along the waterfront.

Screen capture from urban trees of Halifax. It shows Spryfield and regions, and it is clear that the trees are different, with mostly callery pears, pines and birches (compared to oaks, elms and maples in across the Northwest Arm.)

Urban trees maintained by @hfxgov.bsky.social, mapped by @justbartek.ca. While it doesn't document ALL trees, patterns can be seen. Downtown HFX & Woodside appear to be relatively tree-less. Tree species planted each side of Northwest Arm are different. 🧐🌳🌲💚🌎 justbartek.ca/hfxtrees/ #Halisky

Long Island, long awaited Neil MacKinnon shares the story of how his donation of land on Long Island came to fruition, after more than a decade of work to ensure that his mother's birthplace and family home would be a home for...

Thanks to a generous donation, the Nature Trust is proud to announce the protection of 97 acres of forested land and shoreline on Long Island, along the northeastern shore of the Bras d’Or Lake. Read more about Long Island here: nsnt.ca/blog/long-is...

#conservationscience🌏 #Ecologyandconservation

Beard Lichen (Usnea species) hanging from a tree branch.

Today’s a great day to look for lichens. Download Lichens in Nova Scotia: A ‘how-to’ guide for beginner naturalists museum.novascotia.ca/collections-...

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Take a break and spend a few minutes outside this week looking for mushrooms, lichens, and other fungi near you! (And don't forget to let us know what you see by sharing your photos on iNaturalist. 🍄✨)

Our Stewardship Coordinator Liv Monck-Whipp explains what phenology can teach us this Fall season - and how you can help! https://nsnt.ca/blog/fall-is-the-time-for-phenology/

📷 Photo credit: Marian Bell Whitcomb.
#Biodiversity #HalifaxNovaScotia #Conservation #iNaturalist

“Over the last 20 years, @ncccnc.bsky.social has restored native habitat on former agricultural fields & modified lands in Norfolk County, southern Ontario. All that conservation work set the stage for our research.”

New blog post by @uottawa.ca’s Lily Charles.

natureconservancy.ca/advancing-co...

A light mauve jellyfish floats delicately in shallow waters with a pebbly bottom

Belated #FieldworkFriday post - doing some fieldwork yesterday I saw literally hundreds of these Mauve Stinger Jellyfish in the shallows. A new species for me, and so pretty!

Make plans to visit Pjila'si, now on view at the Museum of Natural History. More than just a gallery, it's an interactive space that celebrates Mi'kmaw culture. Come to engage, learn, and reflect on the knowledge, skills, and adaptability of the Mi'kmaw people throughout history and to this day.

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.

When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.

Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

A small, duck-like bird cruises through the water.

An adult grebe with wet, matted feathers is swimming in a marsh, surrounded by three fluffy chicks.

The Horned Grebe is a petite picture of poise and perfection. Not a feather out of place, she glides and dives with the grace of a ballet dancer. Until, that is, the children arrive. 🧵🪶

Omg. I've been pondering how to plan food for a group field trip to a remote site. Enter my sibling, who does Burning Man. Sent me a spreadsheet with easy bulk recipes scalable to group size, including how to coordinate people helping with cooking! And the comments in the sheet are hilarious.

peach coloured background with a drawing of a tree in a sphere depicted

News flash! ⚡ GBIF establishes an international task group led by Dr Lydia Jennings on Indigenous data governance to offer input and guidance for implementing the #CAREPrinciples within the GBIF network 🌱

Read more: 🔗 https://gbif.link/IDG

@localcontexts.bsky.social

As we head into a new week, please remember that your best is good enough. Try to not compare yourself to others, and don’t be misguided by other people’s material things or status. Those things matter not. If you can live each day with kindness, you are the richest soul. Rest well, my friends. 😊

I'm sure many I know here remember Sheila from our days on X. I'm so sad to read this news. Her advocacy influenced my thinking and was part of the inspiration for my pollinators' garden.

What a loss to her family, community, bumblebees and science.

#GiftLink 🎁

www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...

Infographic explaining how to join the Canadian Lakes Loon Survey: 1 - learn more, 2 - decide your lake, 3 - decide if you are on the lake enough, 4 - sign up, 5 - choose your kit type, 6 - go survey.

Infographie expliquant comment participer au l'inventaire canadien des Plongeons huards : 1 - en savoir plus, 2 - choisir votre lac, 3 - déterminer si vous passez suffisamment de temps sur le lac, 4 - vous inscrire, 5 - choisir votre type de kit, 6 - participer au recensement.

Help monitor Common Loons. These special #birds are a part of #Canada that many of us love.
Learn more at birdscanada.org/loons
Register before Aug 1st & share this with other loon and #lake lovers.
Shareable stewardship images available at: birdscanada.mediavalet.com/portals/clls...
#cottages

HEADS UP.

BSky added a feature that allows people to be notified every time you post. A fine feature!

By default, it's set to allow anyone to do this. If you are prone to stalkers though:

*Under Privacy and Security settings, you can change this to only allow people you follow back to use this.*

a sea otter is swimming in the water with its head above the water Alt: a sea otter is swimming in the water with its head above the water, clapping its adorable little front paws together

**cheering**

I can't even describe to you how absolutely mind-blowingly awesome it is to finally have full reign to make this Cree course a reality. Holy crapballs.

Everyone asks Where the Wild Things are, but no one asks HOW the Wild Things are. 😔

Hope you feel better soon! My partner and I had it last month. While we've mostly recovered, the lingering cough is really annoying.

Please support if you can! 🦎

I was a scholarship winner last year and I can personally say, these initiatives make an incredible difference when it comes to pursuing our careers, dreams, and passions.

Super thankful for these initiatives and for all those who donate!

Meet the mottled duskywing — an endangered butterfly once found across central Canada. Now rare due to habitat loss, NCC and partners have been restoring more open habitats with native plants & prescribed burns to help it (and other pollinators) thrive. #InsectAppreciationDay ✨

What do we gain when we restore boglands? Biodiversity, drought and fire prevention, cleaner water, long-term carbon storage, and ecosystems that inspire you to redefine beauty. Save bogs, save ourselves.

June is National #IndigenousHistoryMonth Check out our video series with Roger Lewis, former Mi’kmaq Cultural Heritage Curator at the Nova Scotia Museum. youtu.be/4yv1kUjZJEo

"We've been stalled a little bit due to war, but this is still our primary focus" WOW

Screen capture of info page for the slow birding event, see the event site for the details

Photo of 4 people watching birds

Come join me on a slow birding walk: ‘Folk BIRDS’ Outing in Norfolk
June 7 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
This is an open, inclusive event designed for all age groups.
www.birdscanada.org/event/folk-b...
#birds #getoutside

A beautiful male Blackburnian Warbler singing.

An eastern foxsnake on a log.

A woman at Biggest Week told me that the Eastern Foxsnake is the Blackburnian Warbler of the snakes and it was the kind of sentence that I both completely understood and realized would only make sense to a microscopic group of people of whom I'm a proud member

This sent me on a bit of an etymology rabbit hole - it's amazing how many languages we get bird names from.

Cormorant comes from bastardized Latin, corvus marinus, meaning sea raven.

Gull comes from Welsh / Breton “gwylan.”

Eider comes from Old Norse “aethar”, meaning duck.

BirdWise: Learn Bird Identification with Photo-based Quizzing Learn the bird ID you want to know with BirdWise quizzes! Learn to ID 640+ birds in the U.S. and Canada with this self-directed, customizable learning tool.

Introducing BirdWise: a new photo-based bird ID quiz tool from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Whether you’re new to birding or refining advanced skills, BirdWise offers a flexible, self-paced way to build your visual identification abilities. Start a free trial: academy.allaboutbirds.org/birdwise/