Flora and Fauna Friday this week is traveling back to Saskatchewan in the mid 1990s.
The Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) is native to North America but has been introduced to parts of Europe, Asia and South America.
This individual is swimming across a pool on a farm near Punnichy, Saskatchewan, Canada.
I thought of a couple of photos on reading the One Word Sunday prompt Nosy.
Being watched by a Coyote near Punnichy, Saskatchewan in the winter.
Being spied on by a male American Goldfinch near Punnichy, Saskatchewan in the summer.
This is my day 21 contribution to Becky’s July Squares on the theme of Perspective and another of my eye level perspective photos.
This Eastern Chipmunk portrait was taken by lying in the grass to get down to eye level with the subject.
This is my day 7 contribution to Becky’s July Squares on the theme of Perspective and another of my eye level perspective photos.
This is an American Red Squirrel on the South Bruce Peninsula photographed from the animals perspective by lying in the grass with the squirrel.
This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Squirrel!
I have quite a few photos of Squirrel species, most in natural settings and doing something, usually feeding.
Then I remembered this photo taken a few weeks ago when the birds weren’t cooperating. This is an American Red Squirrel on the fence around the deck getting upset with me for sitting in the yard.
An interesting photo for me because it was the first time I had used my decades old Olympus OM Zuiko 350mm lens adapted to my Sony mirrorless camera.
This week’s Flora and Fauna Friday is a Thirteen-lined Ground Squirrel (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus) in the late spring. Alternative common English names include Striped Gopher and Leopard Ground Squirrel.
Photographed near Punnichy on the Saskatchewan, Canada prairies in the late 1990s.
Throwback Thursday travels back to Shropshire, England in the late 1980s.
The location is Brown Moss a local nature reserve near Whitchurch. The reserve consists of marsh, pools, heathland and woodland habitats. The was a large rabbit warren on a section of heathland. I was friendly with the warden responsible for the site and he gave me permission to put up a portable hide (blind). So I spent a few mornings sitting in a canvas hide photographing the rabbits.
