Deeply washed out and heavily rutted Culham Trail, Credit River Valley, Riverwood Conservancy. Images are from the last year after the rains and floods. Looking forwards to the cleanup and repairs.

Deeply washed out and heavily rutted Culham Trail, Credit River Valley, Riverwood Conservancy. Images are from the last year after the rains and floods. Looking forwards to the cleanup and repairs.

Deeply washed out and heavily rutted Culham Trail, Credit River Valley, Riverwood Conservancy. Images are from the last year after the rains and floods. Looking forwards to the cleanup and repairs.

By the way, I'll very shortly be riding the various Mississauga trails - making photos along the way, mainly for urban wildlife, but also documenting conditions of the trails as I see them. Hoping there are plans to fix the washed out ones real soon. Thanks. #BikeSauga #HikeSauga #SaugaCouncil

Heavily washed out and deeply rutted Culham Trail, Credit River Valley, Riverwood Conservancy. This is from my rides up there after the storm and floods last summer. Hoping they're being repaired.

By the way, I'll very shortly be riding the various Mississauga trails - making photos along the way, mainly for urban wildlife, but also documenting conditions of the trails as I see them. Hoping there are plans to fix the washed out ones real soon. Thanks. #BikeSauga #HikeSauga #SaugaCouncil

Washed out and heavily rutted Culham Trail, in the Credit River Valley, Riverwood Conservancy, from last season.

By the way, I'll very shortly be riding the various Mississauga trails - making photos along the way, mainly for urban wildlife, but also documenting conditions of the trails as I see them. Hoping there are plans to fix the washed out ones real soon. Thanks. #BikeSauga #HikeSauga #SaugaCouncil

Elections Canada, banner Royal purple on White field, white maple leaf, black X and words: Elections Canada

My Elections Canada voter card came in already. Yay? There's only six candidates in my Mississauga riding.

None of the advanced polling stations have been announced yet so I still have to wait until, next week?

#HikeSauga #WalkSauga #InSauga #BikeSauga #

Gloomy green back ground blur, saplings and a shadowy squirrel, among fall foliage and grassy verge foreground.

Hello BlueSky! 🐿️

Softly in the gloom a shadow tail scurries around foraging food supplies for the winter. 🍂🐿️🌿

#Wildlife #ShadowTail #Squirrels #Foraging #DoomScrolling #HikeSauga #LittleEtobicokeCreek #Trails #Ontario

Females and juveniles are mottled brown with orange-and-brown bills. Both sexes have a white-bordered, blue “speculum” patch in the wing. Mallards are “dabbling ducks”—they feed in the water by tipping forward and grazing on underwater plants. They almost never dive.

Good Evening BlueSky! 🪶🍂🌿

Miss Duck swimming on the Little Etobicoke Creek. Mississauga, Ontario. 🦆

#Birds #Wildlife #WildTO #HikeSauga #DoomScrolling #WaterFowl

My morning cup of tea + my daily driver titanium spinner, titanium hydras begleri and my constant komboloi companion. Not pictured: Toasted egg & cheese English Muffin sandwich. (I eated it!)

Good Morning BlueSky!

It's wet outside, it's been raining. I'm looking forward to the weekend sunshine. We have plans to maybe hike a bit of the Credit River Valley - Riverwood Conservancy and make more urban wildlife photos. Maybe I see some of you there?
#HikeSauga #BikeSauga

Downy Woodpecker pair checking a branch just above the Little Etobicoke Creek. These are are small versions of the classic woodpecker body plan. They have a straight, chisel-like bill, blocky head, wide shoulders, and straight-backed posture as they lean away from tree limbs and onto their tail feathers. The bill tends to look smaller for the bird's size than in other woodpeckers.

Lovely morning init? Woodpecker pair on an branch over the Little Etobicoke Creek. Mississauga - Ontario. 🪶🦅

#Wildlife #Birds #Woodpeckers #Nature #trees #life #wild #HikeSauga #BikeSauga

Quote post, a picture of yourself in shades. This is myself Douglas, (DarkWaterPhotos) a Mississauga/Toronto area Urban Wildlife Photographer. Brown wide brimmed hat, clip on shades, olive workshirt, backpack, and of course a long white beard. (and a camera but you can't see that here lol).

Quote with a pic of you in shades. 🪶
#HikeSauga #BikeSauga #PhotoHike #UrbanWildlife

Downy Woodpeckers are small versions of the classic woodpecker body plan. They have a straight, chisel-like bill, blocky head, wide shoulders, and straight-backed posture as they lean away from tree limbs and onto their tail feathers. The bill tends to look smaller for the bird's size than in other woodpeckers.

Downy woodpecker on the Little Etobicoke Creek Trail checking out the next tree it's going to fly to in it's search for good eats. Mississauga - Ontario. 🪶

#Birds #Nature #WoodPecker #HikeSauga #BikeSauga #WalkSauga #Wildlife #PhotoWalk

Black and white feathered Downy woodpecker, red mark on back of it's head, perched briefly on small trees doing it's bug hunt thing beside the greenish yellow effluent waters of the Little Etobicoke Creek Trail.

Downy woodpecker on a bug hunt beside the waters of the Little Etobicoke Creek Trail. Mississauga, Ontario. 🪶

#Birds #HikeSauga #Wildlife #WoodPeckers #Nature #WalkSauga

And, though they may appear smaller—black is slimming, don't you know—they are exactly the same size as their gray counterparts. Black squirrels are dark from stem to stern. They lack the white belly fur found on gray squirrels with normal pigmentation, a fact you'd think might cause them some trouble.

Sometimes even the shadows have tails. 🐿️🪶

Little Etobicoke Creek, early spring squirrel. March 13, 2024. Mississauga, Ontario.

#Photohike #Wildlife #Nature #HikeSauga #Trails #Wild