As well as Great Blue Herons, Loons and Cormorants also find Lake Nosbonsing an hospitable place.
Great Blue Heron
Great Blue Herons are found on Lake Nosbonsing. They are quite wary and they tend to jump up and fly away when they think you are getting too close. “Too close” is usually about twice as far as you think it should be because you mean them no harm.
But they don’t know that and so they take no chances.
They are elegant and graceful flyers, their large wings making beautiful curves as they move through the air.
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Rainy Day Colour
Growing in the planters on Oak Street this past Saturday morning.
Rich colour on a grey rainy morning when one least expects to find it.
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Susans
Black Eyed Susans are one of my favourite flowers.
Yesterday these were growing in the parking lot at Northgate Square.
Colour on a grey rainy morning.
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Bee Hive
A friend has an interest in bees. He has built a “Top Bar Hive“, different in construction and operation from the standard box-like hives used by commercial bee-keepers in North America.
Bears like honey and in order to discourage them, the hive hangs high in the trees and an elegant cable and pulley system allows the hive to be lowered gently (that’s important!) to a stand on the ground to see how the bees are doing.
He was kind enough to give me a demonstration of how things work. I made some photographs.
For wintering, ample honey is left in the hive for the bees to eat. The hive is then wrapped with insulation and some waterproofing, keeping in mind the necessity for ventilation so that the bees can breathe and not suffer mold and other problems. The hive hangs in the trees and this last winter survived without problems.
The bees seem only interested in doing their job. In the 15 minutes or so that it took to make these photographs, there were no stings recorded.
Perhaps we were lucky.
Bees are absolutely remarkable insects and, without them we would starve.
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Chisolm Landscape (Colour)
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Chisolm Landscape
In Chisolm Township the vistas are quite unique and beautiful.
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Curves and Rhythm
Grasses by the side of the road in Chisolm Township.
The foreground grasses in yesterday’s post attracted my attention.
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