One of the most fascinating exhibits, that also serves as a functioning research room, is the Wet Collection of the Museum fur Naturkinde, in Berlin, Germany. This room is huge housing thousands of bottled specimens of preserved animals from around… Read More ›
Natural History
Dragonfly
A juvenile Slaty Skimmer?
Over Toronto
Flying over Toronto, heading into Pearson. A Beautiful city!
Over Greenland
Spectacular views from flight over Greenland. You can see a bit of the icecap in some of the pictures.
Wandering in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Some pictures of interest in the museum in Berlin. The large insect models were something special as was the room referred to as the Wet Collection. Dramatic fossils of a T-Rex (aka Tristan) and the original Archaeopteryx .
Dragonfly Emergence and Death
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
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 ›
Blue bells
Beautiful flowers, blue bells I think, along a ravine trail in Toronto. The first understory flower of the spring!
Oyster Mushroom Reproduction
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
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 ›
Walden Ponderings 