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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Young harbour seal, Brown's Bay. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/09/seal... #VancouverIsland #Animals #Wildlife #MarineWildlife #HarbourSeal #NaturePhotography

A harbour seal pup, in quiet water beside a dock. Only the face is out of water; the seal has his eyes closed, even though at the moment, his eyes are in shadow. None of the youngsters seemed to appreciate the bright sunlight.
He's grey and whitish, with a black nose, white whiskers. The mottled body can be seen under the swirling water. The water is clear, blue.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Spider webs have existed for at least 100 million years, as witnessed in a find of Early Cretaceous amber from Sussex. This spiny orb weaver spider filmed by Rachel Barry is patiently demonstrating how they build them. Original post

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Three edible native plants growing together. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/09/nati... #VancouverIsland #Plants #NativePlants #Flowers #Bloomscrolling #NaturePhotography

Pacific Silverweed, Potentilla anserina, with one yellow flower. Pnnate (compound along a central stalk) leaves with toothed edges. Behind this, there are a couple of stems of Pacific willow, Rumex transitorius; these have tiny clumps of pink or pink-tipped flowers. And there are a few leaves of wild strawberry; three leaves on the tip of pink stems. All these are edible plants native to Vancouver Island.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Canada geese, Courtenay estuary. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/09/unex... #VancouverIsland #Birds #Waterfowl #NaturePhotography

Two Canada geese in quiet harbour; blades of yellowish grass float or stand above the surface of blue water. The geese are brown, with white breasts and throat patches, black heads and necks. One floats facing to the left; the one behind faces away from us, but turns her head to see who's there. Her wings make two round mounds, like the top of a heart shape.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Snakehead Lake, with contrails. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/09/quie... #VancouverIsland #Landscapes #Lakes #Skies #NaturePhotography

Lines in the sky, lines reflected in the water, meet beyond the left edge of the photo. In the centre, a low line of evergreens is reflected in the water of the lake. At the lower edge, tall rushes seem to point in the same general direction, off to the left.

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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Chubby bear cubs beside a logging road. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/09/met-... #VancouverIsland #Animals #NativeWildlife #Wildlife #Bears #NaturePhotography

Two small black bears, back to the camera, heading off into the bush. They're following their mother and another cub, out of sight now. The bush is second- and third-growth evergreen forest, mostly smaller trees. In front, a weedy area beside the road; grasses, Scotch broom, fireweed gone to seed, salal.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Salal leaves, catching the light in a dim forest. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/09/chee... #VancouverIsland #Plants #Forests #NaturePhotography

Salal leaves are oval, leathery, about 8 cm long, and bright green, year-round. Here, a low shrub among old logs on the forest floor shines in the sunlight. The stems are pink.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just a very old Douglas-fir cone. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/09/no-n... #VancouverIsland #Plants #Trees #Moss #NaturePhotography

An old fir cone, crumbling at the edges, black and grey and spotted with the beginnings of lichens, with its scales opened out; some brown needles have fallen into the gaps. It is a Douglas-fir cone, which is usually apparent by the spiky "mouse hind feet and tails" that protrude from underneath each scale; but here, most of them have rotted away. The cone lies on a bed of yellowish, hairy moss.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Tiny mushroom down in the duff. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/09/slow... #VancouverIsland #Mushrooms #Fungi #NaturePhotography

A very tiny mushroom, rather like a tan dressmaker's pin. About 1.5 cm. tall. It grows on the forest floor, between fragments of moss and Douglas-fir twigs. The brown arrow shape at the top is one of the tiny "mouse tails" (so imagined) that hide beneath the scales of a Douglas-fir cone.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Can you find the grasshopper? New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/.../09/hide-... #VancouverIsland #Insects #Camouflage #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

An area of stony ground; small to medium stones, mostly grey or brownish, with dried sticks and grass stems scattered over them. In front, out of focus, and hiding some of the stones, are reddish heads of dry roadside weeds. And somewhere in there, there's a Pallid-winged grasshopper, a darker grey than most of the stones, not quite blending in. (Look for its eyes.)

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Important wildlife update: Spotted Tussock Moth caterpillar has important caterpillar business to attend to #invertebrates

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Red mosses in the rain. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/09/red-... #VancouverIsland #Moss #Mosstodon #NaturePhotography

Round, pincushion-shaped mounds of moss on a sedimentary rock outcrop. Most of the moss is red or orange, even though it's been raining for days. Some is a dark green. And some has turned bright green, as mosses usually do when they're wet.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Growing over a sedimentary rock outcrop; a lichen? A slime-mold? What is it? New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/09/what... #VancouverIsland #Lichens #Fungi #Slimes #NaturePhotography

A cliff face, conglomerate rock, with some vegetation to show the size; cedar branches and salal leaves. A pale bluish white substance covers a large area of the rock, covering the rock matrix, the embedded stones and the holes where stones have fallen out. Around the edges, it branches out into a network of winding lines.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Fall Field Cricket, Gryllus pennsylvanicus, on his way to tonight's gig. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/09/midn... #VancouverIsland #Insects #Invertebrates #InverteFest #NaturePhotography

A cricket on a carpet. He's black, with reddish hints in his legs. Black and shiny. HIs forewings are deeply sculptured; he will be producing tonight's serenade by scraping one against the other, raising them to make a sound box. About 2 chirps per second, 62 decibels up close (in a midnight bedroom, for example). The two spikes at the rear are cerci; females also have a long ovipositor between them. Only the males sing.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Myra Creek, above Myra Falls, from the top of a cliff. In the rain. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/disp... #VancouverIsland #Landscapes #Water #Weather #NaturePhotography

A glimpse of a pool of deep green water at the base of a rocky cliff. Only the foot of the cliff on the far side is visible; in front, to the right, can be seen the top of the cliff below the pond; yellow mosses on top, darker moss and some plants clinging to the vertical face of the rock. Below the pool, the water rushes down over shiny rocks. Looking closely, raindrops are visible against the green of the pool. On the left, there's the trunk of a spindly fir; something to hold onto to prevent joining the creek far below.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Jumping spider molt with lens intact gives a glimpse of spider's POV. Original post

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Lichens and moss and red Douglas-fir needles in the rain. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/all-... #VancouverIsland #Lichens #Moss #Mosstodon #Weather #NaturePhotography

Bluish white, lumpy, Cladonia lichens, green mosses (2 species), and really red, dried (and soaking wet) Douglas-fir needles. Two mosses; one smaller, a dull, yellowish green, the other, in the centre of the photo and above, brighter green, spiky.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Buttle Lake in the rain. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/rain... #Landscapes #Weather #Skies #Clouds #NaturePhotography

A grey, misty day; hills and sky and water all in muted blues and greys. Two hillsides frame the lake; in the gap between them, three layers of hills fade from greenish to bluish to just barely there. The lake is rippled; there's a bit of wind. On the left, in front, are shore evergreens, mostly Douglas-firs bearing cones.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A "wave" of sedimentary conglomerate rock. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/just... #VancouverIsland #Geology #Rocks #NaturePhotography

A low hillside, angling down to the right. It's a cut for the highway, exposing the sedimentary rock; conglomerates, small to medium stones in a finer matrix. On top, there are native plants, ocean spray (the creamy, dried flower heads) and grasses. Below, roadside grasses. And a blue, blue sky overhead.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Cellar spider, a week ago, and tonight. Look what she's done! New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/happ... #VancouverIsland #Spiders #Arachnids #Invertebrates #InverteFest #NaturePhotography

A cellar spider, hanging from a wooden carving. She's light brown, with long, long legs with black knees. And a large, round abdomen, full of whitish lumps. I wondered if they were future eggs. Pholcus phalangioides.

And here she is a week later, up under a pale blue ceiling. Now she's skinny. And she carries a bag of round eggs in her mouth. She will carry them this way until they hatch. So the lumps in her abdomen were the makings of the eggs.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Bowed down under its own weight; a sunflower busy making seeds for the birds. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/so-b... #VancouverIsland #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Sunflowers #NaturePhotography

A large sunflower, half ripe; the petals are withered, but the seeds are still growing. It stands up under the eaves of a house (2nd story), bent over by its weight so that it faces the ground. It's surrounded by large, floppy leaves; speckles of pollen coat the leaf directly beneath the flower head. The stalk is thick, slightly hairy. There's another sunflower, still small, growing behind this plant, and the petals of a third at the far right.
The sky overhead is pale grey; there's a cedar tree on the far left.

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X Solitude ∞ 🍁🇨🇦 EH! @solitudex.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🍁🇨🇦💪WAR IS NO TIME FOR SOFT CHEEZIES EH!!! 💪🇨🇦🍁

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Tiny creeping buttercups, Ranunculus flammula. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/wetl... #VancouverIsland #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography

Very small (5 mm or so) yellow flowers on thin, trailing stems. Very yellow, very shiny; 6 petals, yellow centres. The leaves are small, as thin as the stems; there are a few greenish seed heads forming. On grey, rough pebbles on a dry shore.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Elk River road trestle bridge, Upper Campbell Lake. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/end-... #VancouverIsland #Landscapes #Lakes #Bridges #NaturePhotography

Looking across blue water to an evergreen-clad mountain with rocky outcrops. At the foot of the mountain, a long trestle bridge crosses an inlet into an arm of the lake. A footpath these days; part of the Elk River trail. Sky overhead, pale blue with the faintest hint of clouds.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In the cool shade; a friendly robin. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/well... #VancouverIsland #Birds #Birding #NaturePhotography

A robin resting on a bleached log with leaves (out of focus) overhead. The sun is bright and hot out in the open; here, the leaves provide a bit of cool shade. Underfoot, there are fallen leaves, dry and toasty brown; the forest soil in the background is dry and brown; it's too hot.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Just another weevil. This one's a rescue; she was going to be spider supper. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/beet... #VancouverIsland #Invertebrates #Beetles #Weevils #InverteFest #NaturePhotography

A Black Vine weevil on a red placemat. She* faces the left lower corner. Her compound eyes bulge out on either side of her long rostrum; there's a trace of spider web still there. One antenna visible, the other moving too rapidly. Note the feet; two furry toes, and a long central claw, good for grabbing and holding on. Behind the head, is the knobby pronotum. Her wing cases are grooved, black with tufts of yellowish hair.
*She; all black vine weevil adults are female; they reproduce through parthenogenesis. (Cloning)

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Cath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Did u know? Bees(& many other insects)sleep in flowers. There's lots of reasons for this: the centre of a flower is warmer than surrounding air temp; convenience of waking up on your breakfast; predator protection from the flower colour/pattern camouflage; protection against bad weather. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐝

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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Nighttime, train, smoke, river. Fraser Canyon, Nlaka’pamux territory below the confluence. irl it’s a black black moonless night but my phone gets blues out of it and I like it

An overall blue tinged nighttime photo of a train behind a bank of conifers across a wide river, with a rocky beach in the foreground . There’s a yellow beam of light from the train’s headlight shooting through a smoky sky. IRL it’s a black black moonless night but this is what an iphone gets out of it.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The tiniest of tiny inchworms. (Hanging off my fingertip.) New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/meas... #VancouverIsland #Invertebrates #Moths #Larvae #InverteFest #NaturePhotography

An inchworm, one of the Geometrid moth larvae, 4 mm. long. He has jumped onto my finger, and hangs downward, halfway through his "step", where he folds himself in half, after bringing the head up to the finger as far as he can reach. Then, he'll bring the rear legs up to just behind his forelegs. And repeat. He's greyish, brownish; is as thin as a sewing thread, has three pairs of legs visible just behind the head. The rear legs are not seen; there are no legs along the centre part of the body of these larvae. Background; part of a design of a boxtop.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Pot marigold, Calendula officinalis. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/wow.... #VancouverIsland #Flowers #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography

A bright, showy, yellow, daisy-like flower looking straight up at the camera. It has several layers of petals surrounding an orange centre; there are tiny yellow petals scattered around the centre, too. Background; the leaves below, out of focus.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Brewer's blackbirds, male and female. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/a-gr... #VancouverIsland #Birds #Birding #Blackbirds #NaturePhotography

The male Brewer's. Black with a greenish and bluish iridescent sheen, piercing yellow eye with a black pupil. He's looking for goodies on gravel and the edge of a weedy patch. In the background, there's a scrap of paper, a cigarrette label. Text; "Fumee du tabac est toxique". (Tobacco smoke is poisonous; the obligatory warning on all tobacco products in Canada.)

A female Brewer's blackbird, Euphagus cyanocephalus, on an old log. The bird is brown, with greyer shading; it has a short, sharp, conical beak, dark eyes with a yellow surround, black feet. Background; grasses and weeds, waste ground.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Big purple starfish. (Always good to see another healthy one!) New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/chan... #VancouverIsland #Starfish #Invertebrates #MarineInvertebrates #IntertidalInvertebrates #InverteFest #NaturePhotography

A starfish, pinkish-purple, just under the water level on the side of a cement dock. Two arms stretched out to the left, two curled, one on far side with just the tip visible. The water is slightly dirty; streams of thready white stuff float along the edge. On the side of the dock there are a pair of limpets, dark brownish seaweed, and tiny barnacles catching the light.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Yarrow at Oyster Bay. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/new-... #VancouverIsland #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography

Achillea milleflorium. Terminal clusters of tiny flowers; ray flowers look like round petals, 5 or more to each little flower head, slightly pinkish. The disk florets in the centre are creamy, very, very small, with yellow centres. Narrow, fernlike leaves along the stem. Background; colours of grassy meadow.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Tiny island, Campbell River estuary. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/most... #VancouverIsland #Landscapes #SeaScapes #Estuaries #NaturePhotography

An island barely big enough to maybe hold a house. It's covered with a half-dozen small red alder trees, and a few ocean spray shrubs. It sits surrounded by blue, blue water, at the moment ruffled by a light wind. In the background, Quadra island, evergreen-clad, then blue hills. There are a couple of small beacons on the Quadra island rocks, white with red tops. On the far right, on the estuary shore, there's a small, white blocky structure. Pale blue, cloudless sky overhead.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New harbour seal pup, 10 days old. Brown's Bay marina. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/moth... #VancouverIsland #Seals #BabySeal #MarineLife #NaturePhotography

Two harbour seals, in sunlit water, green, reflecting the colour of the forest beyond. Both seal's heads are above water; the pup is facing the camera, eyes wide, nostrils elevated, as if to sense us; they're barely three or four metres away. The mother is to the right, nose up to her pup's ear, eyes half closed. The seals are wet and shiny, a slightly brownish gray colour. The mother's long eyebrows stand up in the sunlight, glowing.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Chia the cat, on guard. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/crow... #VancouverIsland #Cats #NaturePhotography

A black cat, sitting with her front paws curled beneath her, staring intently off to the left. There's nothing there to look at, unless it's her food dish on the far side of the room.
She's on a cabinet; only the top is visible. In the background, at the left, is a wooden bookcase with a black vase on top.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Seen under my bedside lamp: Brown Pine Lacewing. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/more... #VancouverIsland #Wasps #Insects #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

Hemerobius stigma. A tiny (about 5mm.) insect with delicate, transparent, lacy wings, brown with a darker brown pattern; dots around the edges, smudges on the rest of the wing. It has protruding brown eyes and long, segmented antennae. On a cream-painted wall.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Gumweed and two sweat bees, caught in the act. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/sunn... #VancouverIsland #Bees #Insects #Invertebrates #Flowers #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography

Gumweed, Grindelia integrifolia, is a yellow, daisy-like flower atop a round, spiky, sticky base and red stems. In the centre of this one, two sweat bees are mating. (Solitary bees, they often mate in flowers.) The bees are black, smooth, with pale yellow patches on the abdomen.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Here’s the text: www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_...

Highlighted text showing August 4th, 2026

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Pallid-winged grasshopper, on the stones at Oyster Bay. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/beac... #VancouverIsland #Grasshoppers #Insects #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

A grey grasshopper on grey stones. The camouflage would work if the stones weren't so round. The hopper's face and eyes are pale grey; the body and wings are patterned in blotchy or stripes of darker grey.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Zucchini flower and leaves, with leggy harvestman. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/in-v... #VancouverIsland #Flowers #Vegetables #BloomScrolling #Arachnids #Invertebrates #NaturePhotography

A bright orange zucchini flower, fully open. Upright, with 5 large, rumpled, sharp-pointed petals. Green veins run up the back from the stem to the point of each petal. On the right, there's part of a leaf with jagged edges. On top, a harvestman (aka daddy long-legs) is sitting, waving its legs about. If you look closely, there are another two legs of a hidden harvestman in a fold of the leaf lower down. (Near the bottom of the flower.) Foreground and background; stems of the zucchini plant.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Egg-yolk jellyfish, Phacellophora camtshatica. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/08/swim... #VancouverIsland #Jellyfish #Invertebrates #MarineInvertebrates #NaturePhotography

A jellyfish floating in shadowy water. It looks like an egg, freshly broken in the frying pan, still translucent. The centre is bright yellow, the precise yellow of a free-run chicken's egg; around it, the rest of the jellyfish is whitish. Lines in the water are the reflections of the stern of a boat. Cell-phone photo.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Dahlia in my garden. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/07/most... #VancouverIsland #Plants #Flowers #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography

One hot-pink dahlia, facing left. The centre is pale yellow, with deep wine-red petals. Against a background (blurry) of azalea leaves.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A small act of kindness toward someone vulnerable just went viral, proof that you do not need grand gestures to make a real difference. Sharing food, helping a hurt animal, aiding a stranger, this is

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Bird's foot trefoil, Lotus corniculatus. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/07/bird... #VancouverIsland #Plants #InvasiveSpecies #NaturePhotography

Four bright yellow flowers on a twisty stem. This is a plant in the pea family; the flowers have two sections; round, upright petals, and below, two petals folded together. There are five oval leaves with a sharp point to each stem. And there's a "pea" pod forming below. Background; roadside weeds, some with bright red stems.

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Susannah 🍁 @wweeta.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Vanilla leaf, gone to seed. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/07/so-g... #VancouverIsland #Plants #TemperateRainforests #NaturePhotography

Several vanilla leaf plants, Achlys triphylla. Each one has three leaves, spread out from a central stalk. The leaves are deeply veined, triangular, with the outer side toothed. From one, two tall stems rise, bearing round, brown seeds. In the centre of the leaves of two of the plants, there are fallen seeds and fir needles. The plants are on the ground in deep woods, here surrounded by evergreen ferns, and their shadows.

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