BC Nature is looking for feedback on dog waste, today in The Watershed:
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A grey squirrel in Stanley Park sits beside a mossy tree in a bed of fallen leaves, with a speech bubble above it expressing its delight for the year 2026.
A squirrel sits beside a mossy tree in a bed of fallen leaves, clearly excited for everything 2026 has in store. All the best in 2026!
#StanleyPark #GreySquirrel #UrbanWildlife #ForestMoments #NatureROO #WildlifePhotography #PacificNorthwest #Hello2026 #NatureDetails #BCNature
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The kind of morning where the mountains breathe.
Fog drifting through the pines, shadows layered across the valley, and everything moving just slow enough to feel unreal.
British Columbia. #FoggyForest #BCNature #CinematicLandscape #ExploreBC #PacificNorthwest #NaturePhotography
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This is nice to hear - Bill
Merilees was an enthusiastic & knowledgeable naturalist, active for many many years in nature education for all. He was a longtime member of #bcnature (Federation of BC Naturalists). I shall check out the platform when next in #nanaimo 😊
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A pika watches from a rock. The pika is in side profile, sitting at a 45 degree angle on a sloped rock face.
A pika sitting on a rock.
Two more pikas on an old avalanche debris slope. Near Lindeman Lake, Chillwack Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia.
#mammals 🌿 #bcnature #naturephotography
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A pika peeks over a rock at the hikers below. It has a startled look on its face.
A pika on an old avalanche debris slope. Near Lindeman Lake, Chillwack Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia.
#mammals 🌿 #bcnature #naturephotography
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Cat tails and other wetland plants blur into a painterly look as they undulate in the wind.
Yesterday was hot and unusually windy at Alaksen National Wildlife Area, British Columbia.
I was mesmerized by the cat tails and other marsh plants at the mouth of the Fraser River undulating in the wind.
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #wetlands #marsh #bcnature
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A fantastic two page identification guide for salamanders and newts in the British Columbia lower mainland, produced by the Fraser Valley Conservancy. #herps #bcnature
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An orange-brown ensatina viewed side-on. It is sitting on a bed of moss on the forest floor.
A common ensatina (ensatina eschholtzii) (a type of lungless salamander). Belcarra Regional Park, Port Moody, BC, Canada.
#salamander #amphibians #bcnature #naturephotography #herps 🌿
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A Douglas squirrel in side profile with glossy silver-brown fur on its back and side and vivid orangeish fur on its belly. It is crouching on a rock, its tail high as it eats a blue berry that it is holding in its front paws.
A Douglas squirrel feasting on blue berries at Buntzen Lake, BC today.
#mammals #bcnature #squirrel 🌿
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A skipper, side-on and facing slightly away from the viewer. Its long tongue is getting nectar from a cluster of yellow flowers.
Last one in today's little series of pollinators on bright yellow flowers. Another skipper at Burnaby Lake, BC.
#bugsky #insect #bee #macrophotography #bcnature 🌿
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Side profile of a bee as it visits a black-eyed Susan.
A bee (possibly an orange-legged furrow bee, halictus rubicundus) hard at work on a black-eyed Susan. Burnaby Lake, BC in the interpretive garden at the Nature House.
#bugsky #insect #bee #macrophotography #bcnature 🌿
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A skipper moth, rusty brown in color, on a vivid yellow flower.
A European skipper, I think. Burnaby Lake, BC in the interpretive garden at the Nature House.
#bugsky #insect #macrophotography #bcnature 🌿
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A lime green treefrog clings to a vertical surface. It's toes are splayed and you can see the pads on each toe.
Pacific treefrog showing off its cute toes as it sticks to a skunk cabbage leaf.
Today at Burnaby Lake, BC on the path to the observation tower near Piper Spit.
#herps #treefrog #bcnature 🐸
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A froglet with a small tail remaining sitting on a sandbar in a stream. There is a mosquito sitting on the froglet's back.
A froglet that still has a sizable tail -- visually more than half the froglet's total length. There are four mosquitoes that appear to be feeding on the froglet.
I'm on a tear this week finding Northern red-legged frogs. Yesterday at Burns Bog, Delta, BC I saw several froglets.
They were at various stages of metamorphosis, absorbing their tails and spending time on land.
#herps #bcnature 🐸
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A Northern red-legged frog, viewed from the back. The frog has bits of forest foliage stuck to it.
The second Northern red-legged frog beside a stream at Belcarra, BC.
COSEWIC Status: Special Concern
🐸 #herps #bcnature #naturephotography #frog
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A Northern red-legged frog peeks out of a mossy crevice in the bank of a stream. Only the front half of the frog's body is visible.
It was hot and dry at Belcarra Regional Park, BC, so the pools where I look were dried up. I decided to clamber along a small stream and saw two Northern red-legged frogs (rana aurora aurora).
🐸 #herps #bcnature #naturephotography #frog
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A mass of salamander spawn with many air bubbles. Amongst the spawn are a few tadpoles. There are several insects on the surface of the water.
A chaotic mess -- what remains of some Northwestern salamander spawn, including a few tadpoles, coated in algae and various insects, alive and dead.
Mount Seymour, North Vancouver, British Columbia
#herps #bcnature #salamander
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A side portrait of a female sooty grouse.
A female sooty grouse, June 2025.
She was foraging among the tall grass and flowers at the lookout halfway up Mt Seymour just a few metres from the parking lot.
I was struck by the variety of plumage on the head, and the bright yellow ridge above the eye.
#birds #bcnature #canadianbirding
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A Pacific wren sits on some moist moss next to a stream.
I found this Pacific wren on a very hot (for us) day. It was breathing hard and had found a spot next to a stream to cool down.
Belcarra, British Columbia.
#birds #bcnature #CanadianBirding
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A tiny mushroom grows among green moss. A tiny orange spider is spinning a web beneath the cap of the mushroom.
A tiny mushroom with an even tinier spider making its web beneath the cap. Belcarra, British Columbia.
#fungifriends #bcnature 🍄
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Nature’s architecture is unmatched.
Twisted roots, leaning limbs, and still it reaches for the sky.
Every trail holds something ancient, wild, and quietly powerful.
#VancouverIsland #BCNature #TreeMagic #RootedInNature #ForestVibes #ASMRHiking #NatureLovers #HiddenGems #TrailTherapy #EcoBeauty
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An Anna's hummingbird is perched on a fence wire. Its head is cocked, looking at the viewer.
An Anna's hummingbird resting in the evening. Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.
#birds #hummingbird #bcnature
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A bright yellow goldfinch clings to the tall grass.
A bright yellow goldfinch clings to the tall grass as it feeds on seeds.
American goldfinch feasting among the tall grass and wild flowers on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.
#birds #bcnature
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A hummingbird hovers as it feeds from a bright pink flower.
An Anna's hummingbird feeding in a backyard of tall grasses and wild flowers. Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.
#birds #hummingbird #bcnature
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A tiny vagrant shrew on the forest floor. The snout is long and pointed with long whiskers.
A vagrant shrew (sorex vagrans) on Maxwell Giants Loop trail, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia last week. Tiny (10cm long including tail, 8 grams) and fast moving!
#mammals #bcnature #naturephotography
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Looking down on the firefly from above. The head has vivid red bands. The black, legs and antennae are a deep shade of black.
Looking at the firefly from the side. The head has vivid red bands. The black, legs and antennae are a deep shade of black.
Looking down on the firefly from above. The head has vivid red bands. There are hints of red on the abdomen under the shell. The black, legs and antennae are a deep shade of black.
A winter firefly (Photinus corruscus I think. Confirming with iNaturalist experts). Approx 10mm long.
Golden Ears Provincial Park, BC.
#insect #firefly #macrophotography #bcnature
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