Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Blue Headed Vireo - Point Pelee National Park #birds 090
Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Climacodon septentrionalis, commonly known as the Northern Tooth fungus. Note spores being emitted from the top left. #fungi 000
Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Day two of the Nature Conservancy of Canada’s Big Backyard Bio Blitz. Juvenile Green Heron - Grimsby ON #nccbioblitz #birds 0121
Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 29/07/2026A Song Sparrow with lunch. Grimsby ON Day two if the Nature Conservancy of Canada’s Big Backyard Bio Blitz #nccbioblitz #birds 090
Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Got this sweet photo of a Ruby-Throated Hummingbird in Dundas Ontario on day one of the Nature Conservancy of Canada’s Backyard Bioblitz. #NCCBioBlitz #birds 1112
Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 25/06/2026that followed cattle and wouldn’t stay put to nest and raise their young. Instead they would lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. These birds would incubate the Cowbird eggs and then feed them as their own when they hatch even if, as in this case, the young is much larger than they are.#birds 020
Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 25/06/2026An adult Song Sparrow (top) feeds a fledgling Brown Headed Cowbird (below). Why? Well Brown Headed Cowbirds are brood parasites. Historically they are nomadic birds #birds 1130
Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Orchard Oriole singing his heart out. Bruce County, Ontario. #birds 0142
Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Common Gallinule doesn’t want to share its space with turtles. Grimsby ON #birds #tutles 050
Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Common Gallinule doesn’t want to share its space with turtles. Grimsby ON #birds 030
Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Saw-Whet Owl - deep in a coniferous tree in Niagara ON. Taken with a zoom lens and cropped. #birds 0152
Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Black-Throated Grey Warbler - Port Colborne ON #Birds 0100
Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Weird to do a movie review one minute into Netflix “A House of Dynamite” Opening scene at an Alaskan army base - a jeep pulls up as a Northern Cardinal call is heard in the background. Fail! THERE ARE NO NORTHERN CARDINALS IN ALASKA! All credibility is lost. 0*/5*. #birds #moviereview (ai photo) 070
Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 03/09/2025American Golden Plovers - Green Gate Redshank Storm Pond - Cambridge ON #birds 070
Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 03/09/2025American Goldfinch- Green Gate Redshank Storm Pond, Cambridge ON. #birds 040
Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Hudsonian Godwit - Wainfleet ON, August 25 2025. #birds 160
Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Baird’s Sandpiper - Presqu’ile Provincial Park, Brighton ON #birds 040
Sean Bates @bazrasty.bsky.social · 16/08/2025This would make a great album cover for a duck band! Mallards - Saltfleet CA. #birds 0141