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The eastern garter snake has a wide range across eastern North America, as far north as southern Ontario and Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico in the south, along the eastern shores of America to the Mississippi River.
The eastern garter snake will live in a variety of environments, with a preference for grassy or shrubby fields, including abandoned farmland, outbuildings and trash dumps. In particular the snake likes to inhabit stone walls that separate the forest from fields. It is also found along moist habitats such as lakes, rivers, streams, swamps, bogs, ponds, drainage ditches, and quarries. Snakes are present in urban environments in habitats that include city parks, cemeteries and suburban yards and gardens. Being cold-blooded, they like to bask in the sunlight near logs, stones and other debris where they can hide if necessary.
Eastern garter snakes mostly eat toads, frogs, slugs, and worms, but they will eat almost anything they can overpower. (Wikipedia)
The first garter snake of the year, she was probably sixty centimeters long and looking for sun, not birders. She peered out at us and then disappeared into the undergrowth.
NCC Trail 10, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. May 2022.
On the one day I leave without my 10-22mm, I come across this. Work brought me to Stephenville, NL today and the bogs are alive in their autumn splendor. It's like a big red carpet and the vast openness just screams for a wide angle lens.
The Latin name of bog asphodel, ossifragum, literally translates as 'bone-breaker'. This unassuming plant acquired this violent name because it was believed that the livestock that grazed on it got brittle bones. However, it was actually the calcium-poor pastures that caused the problem.
This looks like all solid land but it is actually a bog. It is so thick that I can walk on it without falling through. You can feel the squishy nature of it though. :D
I hope everyone enjoys this image! :D
an idea Ephran came up with ages back and we only managed to get photos just the other night.
its out of my norm of pretty faces ....but Ephran has a great eye for detail and a wonderful imagination, so i don't hesitate when he wants to dress me up !
He mostly played with the photography, but i did one shot of my own.
Thank you for a wonderful night of your company Eph.
<3
New Forest, Hampshire
Our smallest orchid, these were little more than an inch high and incredibly hard to spot
Flower detail, New Forest, Hampshire
Our smallest orchid, the flowers are just a few millimetres across
I've read that only 39 species of wild orchids can be found in British Columbia, and just 12 in Kootenay NP. Orchids are hugely outnumbered by birds: 300 can be spotted in Kootenay. Worldwide the situation is the reverse: there are many more species of wild orchids than of wild birds.
Just to convince you that spotting this White bog orchid was special ;-)
Ferds Bog is located on the south edge of the Pigeon Lake Wilderness Area located in the southwestern corner of the Adirondack Park.