So many vibrant mushrooms at Woodhaven Swamp, Belcarra, BC. Canon R5+RF100. 1/4, f5.6, ISO400. Stack of 57 images. #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄 🌿

One thing I am learning as I look more closely at mushrooms is that things can be messy and there can be a lot of bugs on and around them. This mushroom was bursting out of a dirt bank. There's a mosquito hiding under the cap. Woodhaven Swamp, Belcarra, BC. #fungifriends 🍄 🌿 #fungi

Woodhaven Swamp, Belcarra, British Columbia. I didn’t see any rough-skinned newts but I did see an ensatina (kind of lungless salamander). Stay tuned #herps #newt 🦎

Walking through a neighborhood in Tainan, Taiwan I came upon a troupe of actors putting the finishing touches on their costumes. They were good sports about me taking their photo. #taiwan #streetphotography #street #travelphotography

A dung beetle struggling to move what I believe (given what I had seen on the trail) is macaque monkey poop. Tashan trail at Alishan National Forest, Taiwan. #beetle #taiwan 🪲🌿

Someone is in for a big surprise if that fan starts up. Dekang Scenic Area, Taichung,Taiwan. #herps

There are things that may be commonplace is some parts of the world but seem remarkable to me, like orchids growing on a hiking trail. Dakeng, Taiwan. #bloomscrolling

1km into a hike in Dakeng, Taichung, Taiwan when suddenly a stand selling bags of chili peppers appears.

Poster art exhibit on the theme of indigenous women at the Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, Taipei, Taiwan. #linguistics

Is it just me or do these Chinese characters look like Hangul? Taipei, Taiwan. @zevhandel.bsky.social ? #linguistics

The iNaturalist experts tell me it’s probably a chanterelle. #fungifriends

Three male wood ducks looking mighty fine on World Migratory Bird Day at Burnaby Lake, BC. #birds #birdphotography #naturephotography 🌿

Common puffballs (I think). Belcarra, BC. #fungifriends #naturephotography #fungi 🌿 🍄

Fungus bursting out of the detritus on the forest floor. I am not sure of ID -- can any experts help? Belcarra, BC. #fungifriends #naturephotography #fungi 🌿

Finally working thru some pics from April 2024. Cretan frogs, Mili Gorge, Crete, Greece. Classified as endangered, esp. due to competition with invasive American bullfrogs. I was lucky to see them. Note the color variations and the vocal sacs. It was breeding season. #herps 🐸 🌿 #frog #crete

Me in the forest: what is this odd looking tiny fungus? Me at home: oh it's a tree root with a bit of rotten wood on the end. 🌿 #fungus

Bleeding bonnet fungus growing from holes in a rotting log. Malcolm Knapp Research Forest, Maple Ridge, British Columbia. If you zoom in you can see various little critters in, on and under the caps. #fungi #fungifriends #mycology #naturephotography #macrophotography 🌿

Labyrinth Street in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. You are being watched.

Cretan ebony (Ebenus cretica), a legume native to Crete, Greece. #bloomscrolling #bloomsky #flower #flowerphotography 🌿

We were reminiscing last night about our trip to Greece in 2024, so today I decided to revisit some photos from Crete. This is the Imbros Gorge hike, that descends through an increasingly narrow canyon -- down to 1.6m wide. #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #crete

Scrambling up Christmas Gully in the low cloud yesterday to Mt Strachan I realized I was being watched by a sooty grouse. Two in fact! The cloud was blowing up the gully, changing every few minutes from misty to clear. Mt Seymour Provincial Park, BC #birds #birdphotography #naturephotography 🌿

A red-breasted sapsucker sucking sap. (Well, technically poking holes in the bark and then licking the sap.) The little tufts of yellowish flowers are a good match for the lichen on the trees. Today at Mt Seymour, West Vancouver. #birds #birdphotography #woodpecker #naturephotography 🌿

A second pass at the yellow rose I posted a few days ago. #flowerphotography #bloomscrolling #flowers #roses #bloomonpurpose

A wasp nest on the ground right beside the Sugar Mountain hiking trail. Sasamat Lake, BC. I didn't feel brave enough to try to get some macro shots of the wasps for ID. #naturephotography #wasp 🌿

A male hairy woodpecker hard at work on the Sugar Mountain trail at Sasamat Lake, British Columbia. #birds #birdphotography #woodpecker #naturephotography 🌿

The remains of a snack -- from a squirrel or chipmunk perhaps? All the maple seeds are gone and only the propellers remain. Sugar Mountain, Sasamat Lake, BC. #naturephotography 🌿 #forest #woodland

Flash photography after sunset with the New Westminster Photography Club last night. Rose Garden, Queens Park, New Westminster. #flower #flowerphotography #naturephotography 🌿

I led a nature walk today at Burnaby Lake, British Columbia. We heard Pacific treefrogs but didn't see any. Then after the walk I saw this tiny guy (~2cm) perched on top of a black-eyed Susan in the rain. #herps 🐸 🌿 #frog #treefrog

I have spent a lot of time in conferences so I was drawn to the conversation areas of the Hotel Bonaventure convention center while staying in Montréal . There was no conference in progress so the areas were unoccupied. #photography #art #liminalspace

One last Northern leopard frog at the Parc Écologique des Sources, Montréal near a spring. Note the blue splotches on the back, behind the left eye. Possibly an old skin wound that has disrupted the layers of chromatophore cells that combine to produce the skin coloration? #herps 🐸 🌿 #frog

A red fox (Vulpes vulpes) at the Mount Royal cemetery, Montréal this past Monday. Not a young coyote as I at first thought! #mammals 🌿 #naturephotography #fox

An American toad in a different puddle at the Parc Écologique des Sources in Montréal. Maybe there's a "one amphibian per puddle" rule? Apparently American toads are common in Eastern Canada, but it was new to me. #herps 🐸 🌿 #toad

Last week I went hunting for amphibians at the Parc Écologique des Sources in Montréal -- a tiny preserve among the tech companies in Technoparc, next to the airport. In a puddle in a dirt road I found a Northern leopard frog (lithobates pipiens). They're common, but new to me. #herps 🐸 🌿 #frog

I thought I had seen a new (to me) frog near Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Maybe a Mink Frog. But now I am pretty sure these are Green Frogs in brown disguise--the same species that is invasive in BC. Note the dorso-lateral ridge, stripes (not spots) on the rear legs, green upper lip. #herps 🐸 🌿

Salt marsh grass on the Bay of Fundy, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. The expanse of marsh grass reminded me of waves on the ocean, although it was close to the famous low tide. Canon R5+RF100-500 @ 100mm. #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #wetlands #TelephotoLandscape

Signs in the Montréal metro. I guess you’re allowed one English word per sign. #french #linguistics

There are three bookshops in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia 😜

Successful conservation efforts in Mississippi to rescue endangered dusky gopher frogs. 🐸 #herps 🌿 Gift NYT article. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/c...

A Pacific treefrog froglet -- approx 10mm in size and still with its tail. In the same pond we also saw Northwestern salamander tadpoles and one Northern red-legged frog froglet. Near Hollyburn Lodge, Cypress Mountain, West Vancouver BC. #herps 🐸 #treefrog 🌿

2:40pm (daylight) on a hot day we saw a bat clambering over a log beside a stream. Maybe it had gone to get water? It climbed awkwardly up a tree using the hooks on the thumbs of its wings to ~3m high and hung upside down. Chilliwack Lake Provincial Park, BC. #mammals 🌿 #naturephotography #bats 🦇

The wild blueberries were abundant and ripe today. Cypress Mountain, BC. #blueberries #berries 🌿

Two more pikas on an old avalanche debris slope. Near Lindeman Lake, Chillwack Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia. #mammals 🌿 #bcnature #naturephotography

A pika on an old avalanche debris slope. Near Lindeman Lake, Chillwack Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia. #mammals 🌿 #bcnature #naturephotography

A pair of American kestrels on a tree on the cliff above Kokomo Beach, Curaçao. #birds #birdphotography 🌿 🪶

Brown-throated parakeet (“Prikichi” in Papamiento) feasting on cactus buds. Curaçao, 2024. #parakeets #birds #birdphotography 🦜

Reviewing some recent images with higher ISO. On a hike to Seru Kabes, Curaçao the trail passed through a cave formed by several large rocks. I inadvertently disturbed a small colony of bats, who flew about and then resettled. Canon R5+RF100-500@300mm, 1/200s, f5.6, ISO12800 #mammals 🦇 #bats 🌿

I wasn't the only one hunting for frogs yesterday. Maybe it's because I am from New Zealand, where there are no snakes (not even pets) but I still get excited to see a "common" garter snake. #herps 🐍 🌿 #snake #naturephotography

I see you little Pacific tree frog, hiding in the foliage. In the garden outside the Nature House at Burnaby Lake, British Columbia. #herps 🐸 #treefrog 🌿

Common gartersnake curled up inside a log while basking in the sun at Burnaby Lake, British Columbia. The vivid blue eye is a sign that the snake is about to begin moulting. Fluid accumulates between the old and new skin around the eye. #herps 🐍 🌿 #snake #naturephotography

Shots from a walk around the Queen's Park neighbourhood with the New Westminster Photography Club this morning. The walk was mostly focused on the historic buildings but it was dark and raining and I got distracted by a few splashes of colour. #newwestminster #britishcolumbia #centuryhome