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Glossy Ibis

September 18, 2024  •  Leave a Comment

On my way home from Brier Island I took the southern route to photograph the Glossy Ibis. It was in a ball field behind a chain link fence. I moved around the fence to the work sheds to get a clear vantage but alas the light was now awful with the sun driving into my camera. I left content with what I had since I have excellent photos of this bird on my website.

This non breeding juvenile was not impressive like its breeding adults but it will have its turn.

Glossy Ibis

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Late Summer Gale Along the Nova Scotia Coast Part One

September 18, 2024  •  Leave a Comment

These are photos of a late Summer Gale Along the Nova Scotia Coast. This is part one of two parts. I followed the Chebucto Peninsula loop from Ferguson's Cove thence to Herring Cove, Ketch Harbour, Duncan's Cove, Sambro Harbour, Crystal Crescent Beach Provincial Park and Peggy's Cove.

Photos are of ocean surf and vessels tied up safe from the storm.

Late Summer Gale Along the Nova Scotia Coast Part One

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Evangeline Beach Peeps Aerial Display Part Four

September 18, 2024  •  Leave a Comment

................continuation of photos of aerial display from Evangeline Beach shorebird migration.

 

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Evangeline Beach Peeps Aerial Display 2024 Part Three

September 05, 2024

.........................continuation of my series of photographs from Evangeline Beach, Nova Scotia.

Evangeline Beach Peeps Aerial Display 2024 Part Three

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American Avocet and Friends

September 03, 2024

I was on my way to Hartlen Point Beach when I stopped for a look-see at Rainbow Haven salt marsh but the tide was high so nary a bird in sight on the water. All the birds were hunkered down in the grass awaiting the tide to recede.

I continued to Hartlen Point Beach but there were scant opportunities to be found there so I returned to Rainbow Haven salt marsh and low and behold the two American Avocets were floating and paddling just ripe for photographs. A visit by a Merlin scattered all the birds resting amongst the nearby grasses on the islets so I left satisfied with my photographs.

American Avocet and Friends

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Burrowing Owl

September 02, 2024

I briefly visited the Burrowing Owl on my way to Cape Sable Island. I photographed it with a 1200mm lens so I was not close enough to disturb the owl. It  is using the rock cavity as its home and sits near the entrance to scan for its next meal, behaviour typical for the species.

My concern for the owl is prowling harriers and predatory mammals but mostly the weather. Nova Scotia suffers one or two hurricanes or tropical storms a year. If the tide is high I fear the owl will drown as the surf washes into its cavity.

Burrowing Owl

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Wood Duck

September 02, 2024

The Wood Duck, adult male in non breeding plumage. was at the Annapolis Royal Marsh.

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Little Blue Heron

September 02, 2024

This Little Blue Heron was at the Annapolis Royal marsh. The juvenile is all white.

Little Blue Heron

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American Avocet

September 01, 2024

Photographing these Avocets was a challenge and at the limit of my technology. I used a 1200mm lens in awful lighting but still had to do severe crops and upscaling to get these copies. A smarter move would be to photograph these Avocets later in the day with the sun at my back.

American Avocet

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American avocet

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American avocet
Breeding plumage
Duration: 13 seconds.
Calls recorded in Palo Alto, California
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Recurvirostridae
Genus: Recurvirostra
Species:
R. americana
Binomial name
Recurvirostra americana
  Breeding
  Migration
  Year-round
  Nonbreeding
American avocet adult with chicks, Great Sand Dunes National Park

The American avocet (Recurvirostra americana) is a large wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae, found in North America. It spends much of its time foraging in shallow water or on mud flats, often sweeping its bill from side to side in water as it seeks crustacean and insect prey.

Taxonomy

The American avocet was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the pied avocet in the genus Recurvirostra and coined the binomial name Recurvirostra americana.[2] Gmelin based his description on that by the English ornithologist John Latham who in 1785 had described and illustrated the American avocet in his A General Synopsis of Birds.[3] Latham cited the earlier publication by William Dampier and also that by Thomas Pennant.[4][5] The genus name combines the Latin recurvus meaning 'bent' or 'curved backwards' with rostrum meaning 'bill'.[6] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[7]

The American avocet is a member of the order Charadriiformes, which includes shorebirds, gulls, and alcids. Its family, Recurvirostridae, includes stilts and avocets. The genus Recurvirostra includes three other species: the Andean avocet, the pied avocet, and the red-necked avocet.[7]

 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
American avocet
Breeding plumage
Duration: 13 seconds.
Calls recorded in Palo Alto, California
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Recurvirostridae
Genus: Recurvirostra
Species:
R. americana
Binomial name
Recurvirostra americana
  Breeding
  Migration
  Year-round
  Nonbreeding
American avocet adult with chicks, Great Sand Dunes National Park

The American avocet (Recurvirostra americana) is a large wader in the avocet and stilt family, Recurvirostridae, found in North America. It spends much of its time foraging in shallow water or on mud flats, often sweeping its bill from side to side in water as it seeks crustacean and insect prey.

Taxonomy

 

The American avocet was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with the pied avocet in the genus Recurvirostra and coined the binomial name Recurvirostra americana.[2] Gmelin based his description on that by the English ornithologist John Latham who in 1785 had described and illustrated the American avocet in his A General Synopsis of Birds.[3] Latham cited the earlier publication by William Dampier and also that by Thomas Pennant.[4][5] The genus name combines the Latin recurvus meaning 'bent' or 'curved backwards' with rostrum meaning 'bill'.[6] The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.[7]

The American avocet is a member of the order Charadriiformes, which includes shorebirds, gulls, and alcids. Its family, Recurvirostridae, includes stilts and avocets. The genus Recurvirostra includes three other species: the Andean avocet, the pied avocet, and the red-necked avocet.[7]

 


Evangeline Beach Shorebirds Aerial Display 2024 Part Two

September 01, 2024

 

Evangeline Beach Shorebirds Aerial Display 2024 Part Two

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Yellow Lady's Tresses Orchid

August 31, 2024

The Yellow Lady's Tresses Orchid is early this year. It's Nova Scotia's latest blooming orchid showing flower heads up to the first frost. The stalk has a spiraling growth pattern and nodding flower heads.  They are more abundant this year so it seams.

Yellow Lady's Tresses Orchid

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Spiranthes ochroleuca

 
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Yellow nodding ladies'-tresses
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Orchidoideae
Tribe: Cranichideae
Genus: Spiranthes
Species:
S. ochroleuca
Binomial name
Spiranthes ochroleuca
Synonyms

Spiranthes ochroleuca, commonly called the yellow nodding lady's tresses,[2] is a species of orchid occurring from southeastern Canada to the eastern United States.

Distribution and habitat

Spiranthes ochroleuca is native in eastern Canada (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Prince Edward Island), throughout the Northeastern United States, and in the southeastern United States (Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia).[1] Its habitats include open woodlands, thickets, meadows, barrens, ledges, outcrops, banks and roadsides.
 

 


Evangeline Beach Shorebirds Aerial Display 2024 Part One

August 25, 2024

This is my first of several photographic essays on the amazing shorebirds of Evangeline Beach during their aerial displays. There was no falcon around that I could see and no people disturbed the birds but they took off for whatever reason that no human can understand, flew around with a few loops and landed again.

I used a 600mm lens, shutter priority 1/8000 second and auto ISO.

Evangeline Beach Shorebirds Aerial Display 2024

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Evangeline Beach Shorebirds Part Two

August 25, 2024

I used my 70-300mm lens to photograph these peeps at Evangeline Beach. The next series will be with a 600mm lens with an emphasis on aerial displays. The best displays occur an hour before and after high tide.

Peeps at Evangeline Beach

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Ghost Plant

August 25, 2024

The Ghost Plant or more commonly known as the Indian Pipe is a true plant without chlorophyll.

I find them in small clumps in deep forest under heavy shade. In this case I photographed them in Jerry Lawrence Provincial Park.

Ghost Plant

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 

Monotropa uniflora, also known as ghost plant, ghost pipe, or Indian pipe, is an herbaceous perennial flowering plant native to temperate regions of Asia, North America, and northern South America, but with large gaps between areas.[1][2] The plant is waxy white, but some specimens have been described as having black flecks or pale pink coloration.[3] Rare variants may have a deep red color. The name "Monotropa" is Greek for "one turn" and "uniflora" is Latin for "one flowered" as there is one sharply curved stem for each single flower. M.uniflora is commonly found growing in clumps of 2 or more, with its fungal source nearby.

Description

The stems reach heights of 5–30 centimetres (2–12 in), sheathed with highly reduced leaves 5–10 millimetres (31638 in) long, best identified as scales or bracts. These structures are small, thin, and translucent; they do not have petioles but instead extend in a sheath-like manner out of the stem.

As its scientific name suggests, and unlike the related Monotropa hypopitys (but like the close relation Monotropastrum humile), the stems bear a single flower 10–20 mm (381316 in) long, with 3–8 translucent petals, 10–12 stamens and a single pistil.[4][5][6][7] It flowers from early summer to early autumn, often a few days after rainfall. The fruit, an oval capsule-like structure, enlarges and becomes upright when the seeds mature. Past maturity the stem and capsule look desiccated, and dark brown or black with a brittle texture.

The seeds of M. uniflora are small, ranging between 0.6–0.8 mm (3128132 in) in length.[8] Once the plant has been pollinated, the seeds are pushed through the petals in a tiny slit and dispersed via wind methods.

Unlike most plants, it is white and does not contain chlorophyll.[9] Instead of generating food using the energy from sunlight, it is parasitic, and more specifically a mycoheterotroph. Its hosts are in the Russulaceae family.[9] Most fungi are mycorrhizal, meaning that they grow symbiotically in association with tree roots. Through the fungal web of mycorrhizae, the M. uniflora roots ultimately sap food from where the host fungi are connected to the photosynthetic trees. The clustered node roots of this plant are covered in hairs called cystidium. The cystidia found on these roots allow easy attachment to fungi hyphae, such as can be seen in ectomycorrhiza.[10] Since it is not dependent on sunlight to grow, it can grow in very dark environments like in the understory of dense forests.[11] The complex relationship that allows this plant to grow makes propagation difficult.

The stems reach heights of 5–30 centimetres (2–12 in), sheathed with highly reduced leaves 5–10 millimetres (31638 in) long, best identified as scales or bracts. These structures are small, thin, and translucent; they do not have petioles but instead extend in a sheath-like manner out of the stem.

As its scientific name suggests, and unlike the related Monotropa hypopitys (but like the close relation Monotropastrum humile), the stems bear a single flower 10–20 mm (381316 in) long, with 3–8 translucent petals, 10–12 stamens and a single pistil.[4][5][6][7] It flowers from early summer to early autumn, often a few days after rainfall. The fruit, an oval capsule-like structure, enlarges and becomes upright when the seeds mature. Past maturity the stem and capsule look desiccated, and dark brown or black with a brittle texture.

The seeds of M. uniflora are small, ranging between 0.6–0.8 mm (3128132 in) in length.[8] Once the plant has been pollinated, the seeds are pushed through the petals in a tiny slit and dispersed via wind methods.

Unlike most plants, it is white and does not contain chlorophyll.[9] Instead of generating food using the energy from sunlight, it is parasitic, and more specifically a mycoheterotroph. Its hosts are in the Russulaceae family.[9] Most fungi are mycorrhizal, meaning that they grow symbiotically in association with tree roots. Through the fungal web of mycorrhizae, the M. uniflora roots ultimately sap food from where the host fungi are connected to the photosynthetic trees. The clustered node roots of this plant are covered in hairs called cystidium. The cystidia found on these roots allow easy attachment to fungi hyphae, such as can be seen in ectomycorrhiza.[10] Since it is not dependent on sunlight to grow, it can grow in very dark environments like in the understory of dense forests.[11] The complex relationship that allows this plant to grow makes propagation difficult.

 


Boreal Chickadee

August 25, 2024

This Boreal Chickadee must have just got out of a shower. A little ruffled but still elegant. This is a chickadee of the deep woods with a song akin to a Black-capped Chickadee with a cold.

Boreal Chickadee

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