canyakker

canyakker, 5 months ago to Birds

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 💪 .

#birds #birdwatching #nature

canyakker, 5 months ago to ontario

The ice covering the beaver pond is thinning.
Fox tracks in the soft ice tell how little a fox weighs.

#winter #ice #Ontario

canyakker, 5 months ago to nature

The tiny things on the shoulder of a road: Cladonias and moss.

#LichenSubscribe #mosstodon #macro #nature

canyakker, 5 months ago to Battlemaps

#SilentSunday

Sublimation: warm air that came in yesterday caused some snow to just evaporate.

##forest #trees #fog #snow

canyakker, 5 months ago to nature

Lichen Community on the base of a large White Pine.

#LichenSubscribe #nature #forest

canyakker, 5 months ago to Birds

How come I never noticed #Wrensday ?
The struggle was real: how to get this twig into the small hole of a nest box? House Wren was so eager to build a nest but she didn't like it and he had to build another one elsewhere.

#birds #birdphotography #nature

canyakker, 5 months ago to Battlemaps German

Zur
#52WochenFotoChallenge
2023/49 Thema: Minimalistisch
@norberteder

Noch ein Schneefall und sie ist gut eingepackt für den Winter.

#snow #Schnee

canyakker, 5 months ago to random

Snow flakes turned to ice crystals. Lichens underneath.

#LichenSubscrube #ice #macro #winter

canyakker, 5 months ago to Battlemaps

Vast snowy landscape or mini moss?
Depends on the viewers size.

#Mosstodon #LichenSubscrube #snow #macro

Minimus, 6 months ago to random

fabula murina (mouse story) XI
Tomorrow's an important day for the parvulus musculus (baby mouse) as it's his nominalia (naming day). The mice eum lavant (wash him) in a labrum (tub). Minima wields a sponge, while Minimus stands ready with a sudarium (towel) and a trulla (dipper).
#Minimusculus #MinimusandMinima #fabulamurina

canyakker, 6 months ago to nature

One of my favourite lichen finds on exposed granite boulders: the Orange Rock Posy (Rhizoplaca chrysoleuca). A small patch of about 2 cm.

#LichenSubscribe #macro #nature

canyakker, 6 months ago to nature

There's still a surprising number of Ladybeetles slowly crawling around on the rocks of Lake Huron's beaches.

#beetle #insects #lichensubscribe #nature

canyakker, 6 months ago to Lichen

Our prettiest lichen, the Star-tipped Reindeer Lichen (Cladonia stellaris), was voted the top pick for National lichen of Canada.

#lichensubscribe #lichen #nature

canyakker, 6 months ago to wildlife

When you put the wide angle lens on your camera you're practically guaranteed to see otters swimming close to you 🤨 . They were unhappy to see me but it likely saved the life of a small duck who took off before she saw the otters.
Heavily cropped.

#wildlife #nature #mustelids

canyakker, 6 months ago to random

Hair Ice coming up from the soil. There may have been wood hidden underneath. Wood-rotting fungi (Exidiopsis effusa) play a role in creating this delicate ice formation.
It doesn't last long, the sun melts it quickly.

#ice #winter #fungiverse

canyakker, 6 months ago to random

Ein bisschen ICM Straßenbeleuchtung für die

#52WochenFotoChallenge
2023/45
Thema: #Beleuchtung
@norberteder

canyakker, 6 months ago to macrophotography

It looked like algae growing on a wet log. Moving closer it resembled a slime mold 🧐 . On the computer screen it turned out to be a rather pretty fungus: Trichoderma gelatinosum.
They are widely studied for uses in agriculture, medicine, and industries, I learned.

#fungi #macro #MacroPhotography

canyakker, 6 months ago to random

The November oranges are going strong.
Orange Jelly and Witches Butter, both are Jelly fungi.
And a Waxcap mushroom with child 🙂 .
#fungi #macro #fall

Two orange, irregularly formed jelly-like blobs on a decomposing tree. They are thin and translucent and kind of folded.
Two small mushrooms growing between brown pine needles on the ground. The smaller one is growing under the sheltering cap of larger larger one.

canyakker, 6 months ago to nature

A light in the dark: a Collybia (?) mushroom.
And it's a very dark day today. All the rain we should have received in October seems to be falling today.
Good for the ponds. But there will be flooding 😬 .

#fungi #MushroomMonday #nature

canyakker, 6 months ago to random

I wish we had clear skies tonight because the Aurora could be unreal.
No chance of seeing it here tonight 😢 .

canyakker, 6 months ago to random

#SilentSunday

#LandscapePhotography

canyakker, 6 months ago to macrophotography

The micro world was colourful today: lichens with the pink fungus Illosporiopsis christiansenii that parasitizes some lichens.

#MacroPhotography #LichenSubscribe #fungi #nature

canyakker, 6 months ago to Mushrooms

My eyes could barely spot the Snowfleas aka Springtails (Hypogastrura nivicola), about 1.5 mm small.
On the computer, zooming, I saw rows of even smaller Fairy Pins (Phaeocalicium ?), a lichen. It looks like the Springtails feed on them.
All of this is happening on a little bracket mushroom about 3 cm across.
This tiny world boggles my mind.
Vertical photo.

#macro #fungi #mushrooms #lichensubscribe #arthropods

canyakker, 6 months ago to Mushrooms

The Black Witches" Butter (Exidia glandulosa), a jelly fungus, is making a timely appearance.

#fungi #mushrooms #NaturePhotograhpy #nature