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• Dragonfly Emergence and Death

  By Pondhawk on June 7, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The dragonfly looked fine at first. It had crawled up out of the water sometime during the night and had settled on this rock adjacent to the fire. It was in the process of breaking out of its larval or… Read More ›

• Cooper’s Hawk feeding in my yard

  By Pondhawk on May 23, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  After a long weekend up at the cottage, immersed in the beautiful natural setting of Frontenac Park and North Otter Lake, I came home to Toronto to find this immature Cooper’s Hawk eating a mouse or chipmunk in a tree… Read More ›

• Out for Turkey!

  By Pondhawk on May 6, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Geared up and ready for the road trip to Autumn Olive hunt camp near Dutton. It had been very wet; so much so that it delayed the trip by a day and shortened it by the same. I had only… Read More ›

• Blue bells

  By Pondhawk on April 15, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Beautiful flowers, blue bells I think,  along a ravine trail in Toronto. The first understory flower of the spring! 

• Oyster Mushroom Reproduction

  By Pondhawk on April 7, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Some images of sporulating Oyster Mushrooms in my lab, April 2017. Powder astride the bench are the billions of spores released from the yellow oyster mushroom. The blue one is about to sporulate.

• Dragonfly Sight

  By Pondhawk on March 23, 2017 • ( 0 )

  It is somewhat hard to imagine that different organisms actually see in different ways than we do. We are very limited in our perception of other species’ perceptions. Cats, bees, and whales, for example, all see things in ways we… Read More ›

• The Change

  By Pondhawk on March 20, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  He was feeling downcast while on the brink of the greatest change his kind could know. His second life beckoned, but he didn’t feel a joyful anticipation, but a rather wretched apprehension. He was going to miss his patch of… Read More ›