Sitemap - 2025 - Whilst Out Walking - Offshoots and Byways

Four Flowers

Not to be confused ...

Canada Day Fireflies (video) ... and a Summer Snow Bunting

Canada Day

Killer Fly

The Sunday Edition - Weekend Walking in the Rain

Common Eastern Bumble Bee

Snowberry Clearwing Moth

Fireflies are bright ...

Carder Bee

Floppy Robins (video) and some MidSummer Flowers

Midsummer's Day plus Wild Plant Communities in our Gardens

Zebra Caddis Fly

Bringing Up Baby (Spotty Robins)

European Harvestman

Summer Birds and Just Desserts

Bee-mimic Beetle

A New Moth, a Warning, and a New Venture

Mossy Rock

Fledging ... (and a bug)

Another Rabbit-hole

Beach Time

Insect Monday.

(Video) Nestling Activity

Waxwings, a Robin’s Nest Update, Fleurs-de-lys … and other things of interest

Fortnightly in the Garden – (#1)

"Safe Haven for Goslings: New Nursery Shelters Young Canada Geese"

Golden Alexanders

Black Swallowtail

Modern (Ethnobotanical) Literary Delights

June is here at last -

Silver-studded Blue Butterfly (and ... )

Rowan Blossom

Swainson's Thrush

Biological Pest Control

Gray Treefrog

Rained-upon Iris - and Sunset

June - Lawn to Meadow. Why and How.

Best Friends

Black-crowned Night Heron (a "doable" read)

Morning by the River

Perfection

Erratum

Waterfall Warblers en masse

Compost Fungi

Protecting the Garden Reserve

Dandelions are not important for bees ...

Bobolink

Solitary Sandpiper

"Mistrust Jollity"

Maytime, In the Garden

Great Crested Flycatcher

“On Trilliums”

Let's go this way ...

Ambitiously Misguided Robin

Assassin ...

Ephemeral Week in the Arboretum

Purple Honey ?

Early Morning Extra - Blossom Time

Spring Bee

How Many Garden Birds This Year (so far)?

Most Unexpected Visitors

Bright Leaves

A Toad and a Fern for May Day

White-throated Sparrow and More Videos

Real Bugs, A Thrush and a Squirrel ...

Old Stuff

Early Birds

New Favourites ...

A Cracking Beak, and the "Cascade-Cam" Goes Live

Bees and Trees

Garden Visitors

Great Egret, Phoebe, White-throat and ...

Cigar Flowers and Blue Salad

Easter with Birds, Bunnies and Butterflies.

Owl and "Puffies" and ...

Northern Harrier

Northern Pintail (and an owl)

"Bluddy 'eck ... Sanguinaria at last!

Iris sibirica - and bird song

Blue Flowers - here and there

Black Birds and Gaudy Birds

One of the Outdoor Staff Pauses for Lunch

Freshening the feathers ... and a Success

Guardian Geese

Muddy Walking

Seeking Some Early Season Salad

Shouting Back ... and Nest Webs

"I want to be a Naturalist"

Brown Thrasher ... and Ferrets

A Rabbit and a Spring Woodland

Chalk and Cheese

Mr. Grumpy Watches Bed Making

Golden Flowers and the Golden Hour

"Oh to be in England, now that April's here"

"Blackbirds" ...

"No idea, mate" - Plus Birds

Death of a Song Sparrow

New Season Birds (and more snowdrops)

A Good Morning Stretch Before Work

Cold sunshine

Fly a Kite and Watch the River

Barred Owl

Perched on the throne

Wildlife Gardening - Getting ready

Cooper's hawk

Song Sparrow and seasonal change

Eight-legged Life

Two Birds ... and Native Plants Notes

Tool-using Wrens

Tagging Along and a Face-plant

Winter Birds

A Nature Gallimaufry

Deep Winter Wildlife

At the end of January? 🥶

Garden Birds - 2024

At the other end of winter

Ravens in the Neighborhood

And a New Wildlifing Year?

New Year Sunrise ... brings small changes