2025 - Looking Back

1 January 2026

Instead of the conventional Happy New Year Everyone posts (which, of course, I do wish for you all) here is a selection of images from each month during the year we have just put behind us. A majority were taken in our suburban wildlife garden, the rest within ten minutes travel.

Let’s start with a record of the January first sunrise over the St-Lawrence River.

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January

Cat-tail Marsh

Storm clouds / Eastern Cottontail

February

White-tailed Deer / Dark-eyed Junco /American Robin / Northern Cardinal

March

Packed luncheon / First Snowdrops / Raccoon

April

Sanguinaria buds / Evening Grosbeak

May

American Goldfinch on Magnolia stellata

Rose-breasted Grosbeak / Warbler bathing party

White-crowned Sparrows

June

Hoverfly on cherry blossom / Native plant garden

American Robins hatched on the porch

July

Hummingbird

August

Early morning with golden rod and Rudbeckia laciniata

September

River birds / Eastern Bluebird / flowers for insects

October

Dark-eyed Junco / Carolina Wren

November

Just down the road

December

Arboretum / Junco (again)

Tufted Titmouse

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So now I can say … Happy New Year / Bonne année as the sun enters the garden