Something wrong with Mastodon or my laptop, or some recent updates? Lots of error messages, can't upload a photo, took forever to load my timeline, not even showing photos. Has been a problem already for a few days.
@canyakker (In ihrem Buch "Vom Aufstehen" beschreibt Helga Schubert, wie sie auf ihrer Terasse in Mecklenburg sitzt und einen Ameisenlöwen beobachtet. Aber das Lektorat hat in der 1. Auflage Ameisenbär draus gemacht. Ich sprang nachts aus dem Bett vor Empörung, als mir dieser Ameisenbär unterkam.) @NatureMC
@NatureMC@canyakker Ich fürchte, dafür reicht die ganz normale Naturferne der Menschen (plus etwas Hochnäsigkeit, die der Autorin einen Irrtum namens Ameisenlöwe unterstellt "Nie gehört! Oh Gott, sie meint Ameisenbär, logisch, was denn sonst."
Stelle mir gerne vor, was da los war, als dieser Fehler bekannt wurde.
@canyakker pretty great to find real ones. Don't think I've ever found one.
The false ones cool up nicely, but apparently they need to be well cooked and you need an exhaust fan to ensure you don't breath the odours the produce during early cooking. Still, our family had them every year as kids in the north.
Long lens shot down the road: a Pileated Woodpecker inspecting a wooden fence built from pines cut down a few years ago. Lots of holes/worms already in the wood.
Our local crow tried to chase him off but Woodpecker held his ground 💪 .
Red berries are everywhere in the bush now: raspberries, strawberries, ... and these, not edible, berries: Red Baneberry (Actaea rubra) and Northern Bush Honeysuckle (Lonicera canadensis). #forest#plants#botany
A large Mirage/Fata Morgana on the horizon of the North Channel of Lake Huron yesterday, mirroring islands with trees, maybe. Looks like a long bridge but there is no bridge.
They are fairly common on the Great Lakes. #sky#Mirage#Ontario
@canyakker my favorite Lake Huron mirage is at Sauble Beach. In the right conditions it looks like there's a windfarm just offshore at Southampton when it's actually much further away beyond the horizon.
Sometimes the turbines look like they're floating in the air upside down too.
It's raining cats and dogs.
A pair of Crows have befriended us. They show up to ask for a peanut in exchange for a photo.
Works well for both sides 🙂 . #birds#BirdPhotography
@NatureMC
They are very smart and cautious. It took a long time for them to not fly away and watch from a distance first, or not to have the other watch over the situation. Started last summer, and now that they returned they picked right up where they left in the fall.
Found this pretty Northern Ground-Cedar yesterday. It's a Club Moss and neither a cedar nor a moss.
They are some of the oldest plants on Earth, once tree-sized, a few hundred million years ago.
I noticed quite a few trees that had been debarked higher up in their crowns.
That's the work of a Porcupine aka Stachelschwein.
Beavers eat bark from the ground up, Porcupines start from a safer height further up.
The Redpolls show more reds now! A bitter cold wind is blowing from the North, and a few small birds have found their way into the garden. With wind-ruffled feathers and fluffed up, they fill up at the feeder.
@canyakker
Oooo. This is crazy good, especially with the red feathers against the white background, set off my the mid ground branches. May I suggest lightening the contrast around the Redpoll's eyes, or adding a pixel or two of specular highlight, so you can see it's eyes a little more sharply? That will make the picture riveting.