The last bits of summer
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From the eye of a child…
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#RiverPixMKE #photohike with Troy and @mkeriverkeeper.bsky.social tomorrow - come on out! It's listed as 9a-noon, but really, you can stay as long/as little as you want!
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Yellow Deer Crossing traffic sign, all shot up , and being hidden behind some old broken down facade and bushes.
So Bluesky has been posting signs . . .
This one is from my archive from out trip last fall up north of Toronto.
NB holey bits are where bullets passed through on their airy journey.
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On the path to discovering what we love we will find everything we hate, everything that blocks our way to what we desire
#fujifilm #fujifeed #woodland #forestphotography #pnw #seattle #washington #pnwhikes #photohike #emeraldcity
My favorite #mirror #selfie
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Some kind of infused drink cap from a Cannabis product with the seal still affixed. The local wildlife don't appreciate having their living spaces decorated with garbage you brought in.
Toronto
Whut dis? First thing I saw when I had my camera strapped on as I stepped onto the path that would lead to the Labyrinth inside High Park.
Please if you bring a thing into the park, take it out with you when you leave. There are receptacles nearby if you just look. #PhotoHike #Parks
Great Blue Heron more than 30' feet up a tree havin' himself a laugh at the wee photographer with a bicycle on the ground below.
Great Blue Heron more than 30' feet up a tree havin' himself a laugh at the wee photographer with a bicycle on the ground below.
Earle Bales Park - Toronto
🪶📷🤠🦅 (Archives.)
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Catbirds' bodies are a uniform soft gray, with black caps, and rust-red feathers under their relatively long tails. They often perch with a lowered tail and appear hunchbacked.
From the archives, Grey catbird - on the Culham Trail along the Credit River. Mississauga - Ontario. 🦉🪶📷🤠
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Brown shadow (squirrel) tail peeks through the underbrush. Likely having himself a snack while he eyeballs you.
Brown shadow tail peeks through the underbrush. Likely having himself a snack while he eyeballs you. 🪶📷🤠🐿️
#WildTO #Wildlife #Mamals #Critters #Squirrel #PhotoHike
#PhotoBike
Kingfisher - Cormorant pair, photobombed. High Park - Toronto. (archives)
Kingfisher - Cormorant pair, photobombed. 🦉🪶📷🤠
High Park - Toronto. (archives)
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Up on a high branch of a tree a redtail sits and is startled by another redtail swooping in on a mock surprise attack!
Boo ya! Redtail surprise attack! 🪶📷🤠
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#PhotoHike #PhotoBike
Inside High Park - Toronto ... a great horned owl on an overhead branch watching a flock of kingbirds a few trees away, hoping they don't mob him.
From my archives. Great Horned Owl. Undisclosed location inside #HighPark, #Toronto. #BikeTO #BikeSauga
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Adults are clean gray above, with a white head, body and tail; their black wingtips are spotted with white. They have yellow legs and a yellow bill with a black band around it. Nonbreeding adults have brown-streaked heads.
Just givin' the 'ole feathers a nice press through with this versatile bill of mine. Colonel Samuel Smith Park, Etobicoke, Ontario. 🪶📸
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Groundhogs weigh around 7-14 lbs and are around 25 inches in length, including the tail. Their fur is a yellowish-brown to black in color. They have short legs and a bushy tail. Groundhogs have short, powerful limbs and thick claws.
An early evening ground hog (Marmota monax), scrounging around Colonel Samuel Smith Park, looking for tasty morsels. Etobicoke, Ontario. 🪶📷
#Wild #Wildlife #Nature #PhotoBike #PhotoHike #PhotoWalk #GroundHog
Common Terns are pale gray overall with a black cap. Breeding birds have a fully black cap that extends to the back of the neck and a gray belly. They also have an orange bill tipped in black and orange legs. Nonbreeding birds have a white forehead, a partial black cap, and black legs and bill
Whimbrel Point a common tern hunts for a fishy dinner over the waters. Colonel Samuel Smith Park - Etobicoke, Ontario.🪶
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Black Crowned Night Heron up in a tree working on it's beauty routine, it's breeding season after all, he's even got the plumage. Colonel Samuel Smith Park - Etobicoke & Mississauga, Ontario. 🪶
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Common Grackles are large, lanky blackbirds with long legs and long tails. The head is flat and the bill is longer than in most blackbirds, with the hint of a downward curve. In flight, the wings appear short in comparison to the tail. Males are slightly larger than females.
Pair of grackles on a rock - bug huntin' or seed scavenging. Colonel Sam Smith Park, Etobicoke. Ontario. 🪶
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Cormorants are large birds (70 to 90 cm in length, 1.2 to 2.5 kg) with dark brown or black plumage that has a dull greenish or bronze sheen. They have lean bodies, long necks and relatively short wings.
Cormorant out on the rock - came up to rest and perhaps to dry out it's wings. Colonel Samuel Smith Park, Etobicoke - Ontario. 🪶
#Wildlife #Birds #Nature #PhotoHike #PhotoBike
Nature exploration is a pathway to many discoveries, some that are considered to be quite natural. Here is a path leading down to the bankside of the Etobicoke Creek. Mississauga - Ontario.
Nature exploration is a pathway to many discoveries, some that are considered to be quite natural. Here is a path leading down to the bankside of the Etobicoke Creek. Mississauga - Ontario. 🪶
#PhotoHike #PhotoBike #UrbanExploration #PhotoWalk #Nature #Wild
Out making photos along the Etobicoke Creek Trail via bicycle, with a short lens hanging on a cross body BlackRapid Strap.
Out making photos along the Etobicoke Creek Trail. 📷
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Brown and white dove with blue circled eyes and black spot markings and wing edges. On Mississauga's Little Etobicoke Creek (which branches off from the Etobicoke Creek further upstream). Image is black and white, so no distinctive colour is seen.
Drained of colour, our Mourning Dove from the Little Etobicoke Creek still looks awesome in the sunlight. Mississauga, Ontario. 🪶🦅
#Birds #Wildlife #Doves #PhotoHike
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. 🪶
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American robin redbreast.
Robin over here, don't tell Batman there are underworld bugs beneath this root. -- Little Etobicoke Creek Trail - Mississauga, Ontario.
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Red breasted American Robin. We have here of course, a hungry robin exploring and searching for buggy food to eat. Maybe even getting ready for their mating season. Little Etobicoke Creek, Mississauga - Ontario.
We have here of course, a hungry robin exploring and searching for buggy food to eat. Maybe even getting ready for their mating season. 🪶
Little Etobicoke Creek, Mississauga - Ontario. #Birds #Wildlife #Nature #PhotoHike
Male House Sparrows are brightly colored birds with gray heads, white cheeks, a black bib, and rufous neck .
House sparrow hiding deep in the thicket of things. Little Etobicoke Creek Trail - Mississauga, Ontario. 🪶
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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.
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