Category Archives: bugs

Robin nesting and

  The robin is generally a non-confrontational bird. It tolerates other species and even keeps moderately close company with humans. Well, that is its normal behaviour. But when you are deemed to be too close to it when it is feeding … Continue reading

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Crab spider

  This is the season of daisies. That means that this is also the time of crab spiders, the primary predator of daisy pollinators. The crab spider sits quietly on the daisy and waits for a pollinator. It then immobilizes … Continue reading

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Spring azure

  Spring azures are small (22-35 mm wingspan) springtime butterflies. They were seen on a slightly darkened patch of a back-woods roadway where a large mammal had urinated. Many mainly male butterflies group there and sip nutrients, particularly salt, that … Continue reading

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Three spring creatures

  Today brought three spring creatures (in four pictures) The Wood Duck is a water bird and seasonal migrant. This is a male. This is the first time I have seen it on a piling.  Every May brings the Bombylius … Continue reading

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2,000th posting

  This is the 2,000th posting to this blog site, Exploring Kootenay Lake. For this occasion, I am showing some of my favourite pictures, by year, from the last 500 postings. After all, you already can see some of my … Continue reading

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August goulash

  This is a small collection of August 2024 images that did not have a posting of their own. A killdeer spreads its wings and tail when landing. This loon is back on Kootenay Lake and is ready to migrate … Continue reading

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Bear ate wasps

  This posting started just as yesterday’s did: watching black bears hunt and sometimes catching Kokanee in a stream. At the end, it took an unexpected and speculative turn. At first the lone black bear was really high in a … Continue reading

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Wildlife mating

  For many years I presented wildlife talks for the summer speaker’s series in the Nature Centre of Kokanee Creek Park. Then, for several years we had a pandemic, so I did not present. This year I am again presenting, … Continue reading

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July goulash

  This is a collection of pictures, mainly from this July, that didn’t have their own postings. The first shot is from late June and shows a Common Startling trying to feed its chick an earth worm. Photo by Cynthia … Continue reading

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Pulp collection

  Thursday, the wildfire smoke cleared enough that I sat outside and watched the lake. But, soon my attention was distracted by some wasps that began to pay attention to my aged deck furniture. What were they doing? I had … Continue reading

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