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Native to Eurasia and the British Isles,Sheep's Sorrel has been introduced to most of the rest of the Northern Hemisphere. It is commonly found on acidic, sandy soils in heaths and grassland. It is often one of the first species to take hold in disturbed areas, such as abandoned mining sites, especially if the soil is acidic.
Livestock will graze on the plant, but it is not very nutritious and is toxic in large amounts because of oxalates. Ground-feeding songbirds eat the seeds, and larger animals like rabbits and deer browse the greens. The American copper or small copper butterfly depends on it for food, although its larvae can consume some related plants.
The plant is widely considered to be a hard-to-control noxious weed due to its spreading rhizome. Blueberry farmers are familiar with the weed because it thrives in the same conditions under which blueberries are cultivated. (Wikipedia)
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We found patches of this invasive weed growing along the shoreline in British Columbia. Pretty to look at and a source of food for many animals.
Delta, British Columbia, Canada. May 2023.
Eagle-Eye Tours - Ultimate British Columbia.
The Importance of Farmland in Cornwall
More than 70% of Cornwall’s land is dedicated to agriculture, making it a vital part of the region’s economy and ecosystem. The fertile soil and favorable climate allow for the cultivation of a wide variety of crops, including fruits, vegetables, and cereals. Additionally, Cornwall is known for its dairy farming, producing high-quality milk and cheese.
The abundance of farmland in Cornwall not only provides us with nutritious food but also contributes to the preservation of the region’s natural resources. Sustainable farming practices, such as organic farming and agroforestry, can help enhance soil quality, reduce pollution, and support wildlife habitats. By working collaboratively with farmers, we can ensure that nature thrives alongside agricultural activities.
Exploring Cornwall’s Agricultural Landscape
Cornwall is home to expansive farmlands, with picturesque countryside vistas that attract visitors from around the world. The largest county in the South West, Devon, has around 72.4 percent of its land dedicated to commercial farm holdings, with a majority of it consisting of grasslands. This creates a lush and vibrant landscape that adds to Cornwall’s allure as a tourism hotspot.
Shot with the nikon D3 and the Nikon 50mm 1.4G.
American hornbeam is one of my favorite small trees to find out in the forest, seen here as several slim trunks clumped together in the foreground. American hornbeam has several other common names, including blue beech and musclewood. American hornbeam is often called blue beech because it has very smooth bark, similar to a beech tree, that is bluish-gray in color. That unique fluting in the tree trunks looks like a bodybuilder is flexing their arm muscles, hence the name musclewood. In addition, American hornbeam is often called ironwood too but that name is more often associated with American hop-hornbeam, a close cousin in the birch family. American hornbeam wood is very hard and tough so it was once used to fashion yokes for holding oxen together when pulling wagons - beams to hold their horns. American hornbeam is a wonderful tree for wildlife too as wild turkeys and squirrels eat their nutlets and wintering songbirds like American goldfinches and pine siskins will seek out their nutritious male catkins
SW Coastal Walk Torbay .Flax, plant of the family Linum usitatissimum, in the family Linaceae. , cultivated both for its fiber, from which linen is made, and for its nutritious seeds, from which linseed oil is obtained. Though flax has lost some of its value as a commercial fiber crop, flaxseed has grown in popularity as a health food.
We are starting to have interesting ducks visit this little lake in Central Park, attracted by the nutritious duckweed… To start, a juvenile Wood Duck hen, who seems to enjoy hanging out with the much larger Mallards. She is also quite small. At the Pool, Central Park, New York.
Planet Clingon? Yes, that's right. Because, as has been recently discovered, there's a sister species of the Klingons. I assume the differences between the Klingons and the Clingons are pretty similar to those between the Vulcans and the Romulans. This means that the Clingons are peaceful, polite, kind, and generally super nice, extremely relaxed people. What you see is a solar storm rising behind their home world. Solar "storm" in the Clingon solar system means a warm, gentle, slightly fuzzy breeze because, well, everything in the Clingon world is a little fuzzy. A favourite chill-out activity of theirs is smoking "pod", a very healthy and nutritious plant that, as a most welcome side effect, gives you sunny, bright (and somewhat fuzzy) vibes. Peace, folks!
Late in the game with this "lucky last shot". Nothing I'd tried before had worked out. With almost every MM theme, I try to make my subject look "different" so you won't recognize at once what it is. But when this is exactly the task, I go "What? How do I do that? And what could I possibly photograph?!?" As usual :) This is a single shot of a cling foil/film roll, taken with the Laowa 50mm Ultra 2x macro at a magnification somewhere between 1.5:1 and 1.25:1. Processed in DXO PL7, Analog and Color Efex Pro.
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
A nice, broken buck focused on feeding on a tall weed with a rounded seed pod...must have been a tasty and nutritious seed pod as he stayed in this small area for 15 minutes before moving on in search of does.
He returns to the nest with a fish from which he has already eaten the highly nutritious head.
The grey background is forest fire smoke, completely obliterating the other side of the lake only a mile distant.
Below are some ingredients of my soup. Easy ,nutritious , and satisfying to me on a cold spring day1
Have you noticed that birds gulp berries down whole with no chewing? This is because birds do their chewing further down, in a muscular organ called the gizzard. Also birds don't have teeth to chew, although some like Mergansers have bill serrations that look like teeth: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/50648124258/in/photolist You can see on this Redwing that the hard tongue is being used to push the berry down the throat. If you double click you can zoom in to see the detail of the tongue, perfectly designed for this job. The berry then moves towards the gizzard where it is macerated so the nutritious fruit can be digested leaving the seeds to be voided elsewhere in their own package of fertiliser. In fact the whole reason berries evolved was so that birds and animals could disperse the seed. But what about poisonous berries like Deadly Nightshade? Well although they are poisonous to humans birds can eat them without ill effect. I have seen Pheasants gorging on the berries and living to tell the tale. And even some mammals can eat them, like cows and rabbits.
This double-banded scoliid wasp has those two broad white bands - the double-bands - on its abdomen that help to identify it in the field. This striking sizable specimen is a female since she has short antennae and we can't see her stinger - males have some tiny spines at the back end of the abdomen that might be mistaken for stings. She has a working stinger filled with venom and would definitely defend herself if you foolishly tried to touch her. But she would rather save that venom for the larvae of June beetles, those big ugly white grubs that damage your lawn grass in the summer. She can detect those buried grubs and digs down in the dirt to reach them before stinging said grub(s) to paralyze them. After laying an egg on the hapless grub, she departs the crypt and the wasp larva eats the grub from inside out upon hatching. The grub's hollow shell makes a nice place for the larva to spend the winter before pupating the following spring and emerging as an adult later on in the summer. These wasps are superior pollinators on late summer flowers like this stiff goldenrod for their bodies are very hairy and the pollen sticks to them as they fly around feeding on various nutritious nectar sources.
Mondays...stressful day of the week for many of us...who wouldn't like a place like this to retreat during their day to restore some sanity? I know I would!! In this scene we have some fantastic new items from Granola, [Merak], and [ keke ]...
From Granola. we have a gorgeously textured and versatile set:
Odeletta Radio Cabinet in Grey (come in three colors; grey, green, white)
Odeletta Lemon Bowl. Burlap. ( three lemon bowl cloth covers )
faMESHed: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/FaMESHed/129/157/1998
Granola. Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Daydreams/86/121/30
Granola. Facebook Link: www.facebook.com/GranolaHomeDecor/
From [Merak] we have the Elegant Shower Cabinet. It comes in PG and Adult. Beautifully made. The tiles are fab and there is even a sitting area in the shower! The Elegant Shower Cabinet can now be found at Uber: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Uber/126/129/1200
[Merak] Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bijouter%20Isle/213/159/21
Other [Merak} items used:
[Merak] - Hair Products
[Merak] - Bath Salts
both now at The Arcade: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Arcade/135/134/32
From [ keke ] we have just what you need for a great snack or start to your day!! The bullet blender and blender tray filled with nutritious goodies.
[ keke ] blender tray
[ keke ] bullet blender
Out now at faMESHed: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/FaMESHed/129/157/1998
[ keke ] Mainstore: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Manet/125/162/22
Other decor used:
Nutmeg. Country House Bench w/Grey Blanket
Nutmeg. Bachelor Bag Nude
Nutmeg. Backyard Stool Brown
Apple Fall Basil Sproutlings
Apple Fall Banana Tree
{vespertine}- birds of paradise palm.
{vespertine}-rainbow succulent bowl
MudHoney Rory Pillow Basket
.:revival:. basket light white
.:revival:. basket light weathered
dust bunny . quirky planters . llama
Have a great week and make sure to take the time to relax!! 😊
All sunflower seeds are favorite foods for American goldfinches. Even though we're more familiar with the large tame sunflower seeds that get put out in our feeders, the birds also feast all fall and winter on the many nutritious wild varieties out in prairies or fallow fields.
A decade ago, I sat in a friend's garden and photographed a flock of House Finches as they worked over his sun-cured, standing sunflowers for nutritious seeds.
I always plant sunflowers in my own garden for the same reason - to attract some seed-eating migratory birds in the fall (in addition to adding some beautiful splashes of colour by mid-summer).
Last week I spotted a single House Finch, hiding amid a tangle of tree branches. It never did come out for a photo. Five or six other birds did, so my efforts paid off, but my best House Finch shots are still from this 2013 session in glorious late autumn light. Lots more fall photos still to come - a celebration of my second-favourite prairie season (spring will always be number one).
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2013 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Ramen is a delicious, aromatic soup dish with noodles, vegetables, meat and egg. It is increasingly popular as it is a very balanced, nutritious and comforting meal, as the broth is prepared over low heat and served piping hot.
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Warthogs “kneel” down to feed. Their short necks, long legs and the special protective pads on their wrists/knees allow them to eat lower grasses easily.
The common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) is a wild member of the pig family (Suidae) found in grassland, savanna, and woodland in sub-Saharan Africa.
The common warthog is the only pig species that has adapted to grazing and savanna habitats. Its diet is omnivorous, composed of grasses, roots, berries and other fruits, bark, fungi, insects, eggs and carrion. During the wet seasons, warthogs graze on short perennial grasses. During the dry seasons, they subsist on bulbs, rhizomes, and nutritious roots.
Although they can dig their own burrows, they commonly occupy abandoned burrows of aardvarks and other animals. The common warthog reverses into burrows, with its head facing the opening and ready to burst out if necessary.
Although capable of fighting (males aggressively fight each other during mating season), the common warthog's primary defense is to flee by means of fast sprinting. The common warthog's main predators are humans, lions, leopards, cheetahs, crocodiles, wild dogs and hyenas.
Common warthogs are not territorial, but instead occupy a home range. Common warthogs live in groups called sounders. Females live in sounders with their young and with other females. Subadult males associate in bachelor groups, but live alone when they become adults. – Wikipedia
I don't have to go very far to see these beauties. Just on the edge of the town of Madison Virginia (my home town) there is a Mennonite owned and operated store where you can find all sorts of good and nutritious things... home made bread for instance! And off to the side of the store there is a "petting zoo". They call it a petting zoo, but really you can't pet anything there. Just buy the feed and give it to them. (which you can't even do that now because of Covid) They have all sorts of exotic chickens and several Peacocks along with a pure white one. Some fancy pigeons and goats and bunnies etc etc. A real exercise to get photos through the mesh they have them enclosed in! Some day perhaps I will share the ferocious bunny photo I took that day.......
The highlight of this morning's walk was seeing this handsome six point buck, feasting on a nutritious breakfast of mixed greens. Wildwood Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
There are lots of Persicarias - in fact, one of them is a special favorite of mine on account of its honey: Buckwheat. This particular flower from the Himalayas intrigues because of its globular flower heads composed of lots of tiny florets. It was first collected 1802/3 by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762-1829). He'd studied medicine in Edinburgh and wrote a thesis on malaria. He became a member of the British East India Company for which he worked 1794-1815 as an explorer, naturalist and physician. Among many publications he wrote an acclaimed An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal (1811) and his botanical finds were published in 1825.
This pretty Knotweed is here being visited by a small Sweatbee, Green or Emerald Furrow Bee.
Excerpt from Wesley.ca:
Wesley’s newest social enterprise is a hydroponic, vertical and year-round farm that provides fresh produce and meals to the local community.
Summary
Local, high quality fresh produce that is organically and hydroponically grown.
Increases food security by providing free produce to tenants of Vanier Towers and nutritious meals cooked by First Start Café & Catering.
It is located in downtown Hamilton, surrounded by Vanier Towers, in partnership with CityHousing Hamilton.
Lettuce, kale and herbs are available for purchase and sold in bunches or crate.
Euchloe bazae (Fabiano 1993)
Euchloe bazae = Elphinstonia charlonia
Puntaparda verdosa - azufrada ibérica - gorgueta del desert
Monegros - Aragón - España
Esta insigne mariposa es de las más escasas, vulnerables y buscadas siendo además de difícil localización y captura pues su inquietud es constante y sus vuelos muy rápidos. Actualmente a nivel europeo tan solo se encuentra en dos reducidos núcleos de la geografía española lo que dio origen a dos subespecies (Euchloe bazae bazae en la hoya de Baza - Granada - Andalucía) y Euchloe bazae iberae en la zona de Monegros - Huesca- Aragón). Aunque ahora se han identificado ambas como la misma especie quedando como Euchloe bazae. En algún período - principios de la década de los años 90- también hubo citas en la zona de La Granja d’Escarp (Lleida-Catalunya) pero no se han vuelto a encontrar.
Su principal planta nutricia en Monegros es Boleum asperum, comúnmente llamado “asprón” aunque parece ser que también puede ovipositar en Eruca vesicaria y Reseda phyteuma.
Spanish greenish black-tip
Monegros - Aragon - Spain
This distinguished butterfly is one of the most scarce, vulnerable and sought after, as well as being difficult to locate and capture because its restlessness is constant and its flights very fast. At the European level, it is only found in two small nuclei of the Spanish geography which gave rise to two subspecies (Euchloe bazae bazae in the hole of Baza - Granada - Andalusia) and Euchloe bazae iberae in the area of Monegros - Huesca- Aragón ). Although both have now been identified as the same species remaining as Euchloe bazae. In some period - the early 90s - there were also appointments in the area of La Granja d'Escarp (Lleida-Catalunya) but they have not been found again.
Its main nutritious plant in Monegros is Boleum asperum, commonly called “asprón” although it seems that it can also oviposit in Eruca vesicaria and Reseda phyteuma.
Euchloe bazae (Fabiano 1993)
Monegros - Aragon - Espagne
Ce papillon insigne est l'un des plus rares, vulnérables et recherchés, et il est également difficile à localiser et à capturer bien son agitation est constant et ses vols très rapides. Au niveau européen, il ne se trouve que dans deux petits centres de la géographie espagnole qui ont donné naissance à deux sous-espèces (Euchloe bazae bazae dans le trou de Baza - Grenade - Andalousie) et Euchloe bazae iberae dans la région de Monegros - Huesca- Aragón ). Bien que les deux soient maintenant identifiés comme les mêmes espèces qui restent comme Euchloe bazae. Dans une certaine période - au début de la décennie des années 90 - il y avait aussi des rendez-vous dans la région de La Granja d’Escarp (Lleida-Catalunya) mais ils n’ont pas été retrouvés.
Sa principale plante nutritive à Monegros est le Boleum asperum, communément appelé «asprón», bien qu'il semble qu'il puisse également pondre dans Eruca vesicaria et Reseda phyteuma.
Scribbly Gum
"The scribbly gum moth larvae (Ogmograptis genus) bore a meandering tunnel through the eucalypt tree’s bark at the level of the future cork cambium, first in long irregular loops and later in a more regular zigzag which is doubled up after a narrow turning loop.
When the cork cambium starts to produce cork to shed the outer bark it produces scar tissue in response to the feeding of the caterpillar, filling the doubled up part of the larval tunnel with highly nutritious, thin-walled cells.
These replacement cells are ideal food for the caterpillar which moults into its final life stage with legs, turns around and eats its way back along the way it has come. It now grows rapidly to maturity and leaves the tree to spin a cocoon at its base, where it pupates.
Not long after the caterpillar leaves the tree, the bark cracks off and exposes the iconic scribbles beneath." csiropedia
This little guy/gal was living the good life on a cool August morning surrounded by a smorgasbord of nutritious green grasses. His sibling and mom were nearby...I'll post an image of all three someday. Custer State Park, South Dakota.
Last in my ungulate series and tomorrow back to south Texas birds.
Also known as Spear Thistle, this plant, introduced from Eurasia, is now a common in Yellowstone region. The roots, stems and young flower buds are nutritious.
I returned to the day lily bed to see if the katydid was still "hiding" and discovered they eat the pollen off the anther of day lilies. I have to assume it must have nutritious qualities.
Saw my first Humming bird today, was delirious with excitement, took a good few shots, none of them very good. This is a photo of record.
From today's Journal:-
Woke feeling tired this morning, everybody is struggling with the time change. I start the day feeling so tired it's ridiculous and sleep intermittently throughout the day. It's not just me, we're all doing it.
In China I wrote of my dining room adventures, never expecting it would be the same here, but it is. What is it about hotels and toasters that don't work? Really, how is it that a country who sends spacecraft to other planets cannot make a toaster that browns bread?
And what's with this sweetened white substance that masquerades as butter? It doesn't look like butter, is the wrong colour, has the consistency of mushy hommus, is sweetened (well, everything here is sweetened to within an inch of its life) and is passed off a butter. At least in China they served real New Zealand butter.
I thought the Chinese wafer thin, over cooked, manufactured bacon was a travesty. Now I know the Chinese were serving American bacon cooked to suit the American taste.
Don't get me started on the waffles and pastries they imagine I want for breakfast. A man could die of starvation for want of any real and nutritious food in an American dining room. Either that, or assume the proportions of a stegosaurus from eating sugar laden rubbish at the trough of indulgence.
Macro Mondays - Snack
Nuts and dried fruit can be a nutritious choice but in small portions as they can be high in calories.
Nuts and dried fruits are healthful foods because of their nutrient profiles. They provide dietary fibre, potassium (K) and a variety of health protective bioactive compounds.
The squirrels have not been able to overcome the barriers to the birdfeeders and when they arrive have to spend their time foraging for whatever particles of seeds that they can find
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Phengaris alcon (Dennis & Shiffermüller, 1775)
Huevos de Phengaris alcon en su planta nutricia, Gentiana cruciata.
Muchas gracias por las visitas, comentarios y favoritos.
Phengaris alcon eggs in its nutritious plant, Gentiana cruciata.
Thank you very much for your visits, awards, comments and faves.
Oeufs de Phengaris alcon dans sa plante nutritive, Gentiana cruciata.
Merci beaucoup pour vos visites, commentaires et favoris.
Euchloe bazae = Elphinstonia charlonia
Puntaparda verdosa - azufrada ibérica - gorgueta del desert
Monegros - Aragón - España
En muy pocas ocasiones se tiene la oportunidad de poder fotografiarla con cierta pausa. Estaba tranquila en la flor del “asprón”, su planta nutricia. (Boleum asperum).
Una imagen que me trae estimables recuerdos y gratitud hacia todo el grupo de amigos que anualmente solíamos reunirnos en los Monegros para compartir y disfrutar fotográfica y “deportivamente” con esta emblemática y difícil mariposa. La de “carreras” y vivencias por los abruptos y casi desérticos barrancos monegrinos que conlleva su localización y seguimiento.
Spanish greenish black-tip
Monegros - Aragon - Spain
On very few occasions you have the opportunity to photograph it with a certain pause. She was calm in the flower of "asprón", her nutritious plant. (Boleum asperum).
An image that brings me esteemed memories and gratitude to the whole group of friends who used to meet annually in Los Monegros to share and enjoy photographic and "sporty" with this emblematic and difficult butterfly. The one of "races" and experiences through the abrupt and almost desert ravines of Monegrim that its location and monitoring entails.
Euchloe bazae (Fabiano 1993)
Monegros - Aragon - Espagne
En de très rares occasions, vous avez la possibilité de le photographier avec une certaine pause. Elle était calme dans la fleur de "l'asprón", sa plante nutritive. (Boleum asperum).
Une image qui m'apporte des souvenirs estimés et de la gratitude à tout le groupe d'amis qui se réunissaient chaque année à Los Monegros pour partager et profiter de la photographie et du "sportif" avec ce papillon emblématique et difficile. Celui des «courses» et des expériences à travers les ravins abrupts et presque désertiques de Monegrín qu'implique sa localisation et son suivi.
Crossbills usually prise open pine cones in situ to extract the nutritious seeds inside and will often hang acrobatically to achieve this. But sometimes they use their bills like secateurs to snip off the cone and carry it somewhere more convenient for extracting the seeds. This female Crossbill was caught in the act of doing just that, and you can even see the cut stump where she has just taken it from. Crossbills are often common in the Peak District woodlands but their numbers fluctuate massively and this winter I have only seen one or two. I took this photograph in local woodlands back in March when there were dozens around. They specialise in eating conifer seeds, and even feed their young on a porridge of regurgitated seeds when most finches switch to an insect diet.
Family: Anatidae. (Waterfowl)
Length: 74 to 84cm Wingspan: 1.49 to 1.68cm Weight: 2.9 to 3.7kg Lifespan 15 to 20 years.
Anser anser, (“Anser being the Latin name for “Goose.”) is the ancestor of most domesticated farmland geese, from as early as 1360 BC.
The Greylag, is Britain’s commonest native goose and is present all year round in the UK. It is widespread throughout Europe and into far Eastern countries, such as Russia, China and Turkey. Also present in countries which have a coastline along the Mediterranean coast, including North Africa. They are also present in many other countries around the world as far as New Zealand.
Large numbers of Greylag geese migrate to Scotland, from Iceland and some Scandinavia countries for the winter months.
Truly wild populations are mainly found in the Scottish regions of the UK.
Habitats: Various Freshwater places including, coastal marshlands, farmlands, gravel pits, reservoirs, Lakes and rivers. They have become semi-tame in public places such as parks, lake sidewalks, river sidewalks, where it will be commonly seen. Greylag geese are mainly herbivorous and graze favourably on various short nutritious grasses, (note the teeth like bill, which enables it to tear apart vegetation.) usually close to water. Will also be found in meadows, usually where farm animals are also grazing. Various leaf vegetation including cereal crops are also eaten, will also dig up the roots of young crops. They have been known to feed throughout the night as well as daytime, which can and does cause a concern for agricultural farmers, when large flocks are close by. They will also feed on small fish, amphibians, molluscs, crustaceans and insects.
Greylag geese are listed in Schedule 2 of the UK Wildlife and Countryside Act, so unfortunately, they have no protection outside the “Close season” (nesting times). The Greylag Goose is considered a pest in many countries, In the Orkney islands, they are now killed most of the year, they are also killed to be eaten, in some countries.
Nesting: The adult birds usually pair for life, many travel to their northerly breeding grounds in spring, marshlands, rivers, around lakes and on coastal islands are favoured habitats. 4 to 6 eggs are laid on the ground or on floating vegetation; using the likes of heather, rushes, reeds and various grasses. The nest is usually sparsely built, then lined with small feathers and down. Only the female will incubate the eggs, but both parents will protect the nest and young. Incubation takes around 28 days after the last egg is laid. The chicks are precocial, (being able to feed and move independently as soon as hatching). One brood a year between May and June in the UK.
Nesting times the Greylag geese will become territorial and will be very protective of their nest and young fledglings, from other large birds and other geese. Although some do join together with other families of geese for added protection. When nesting time ends, they will become social again. The birds will stay together as a family group and migrate south, in the late Autumn months.
UK has nearly 50,000 breeding pairs (2022) in the winter months, the number of breeding pairs, approximately trebles.
These dried dates are super-hard!
I can’t eat them as I don’t want to break my teeth but there are those in India and the Middle East who do chew merrily upon them. People, like us, often soak them overnight to soften them before eating.
They are very nutritious and in their dried form will keep for a very long time as their water content is extremely low, preserving them for ages.
One more shot of the tanager! I have cropped the feeder out of this shot, as the pale wood was a distraction - I don't have any rigid rule around this, but usually if I pay attention to the graphics, these choices fall into place. With the bright base line removed, our eyes are free to follow the diagonal of this colourful bird from the bottom corner up to the saskatoon berry it is tasting. Yes, birds have taste receptors.
Maurice grows saskatoons and he freed up some of last year's frozen crop for the birds this spring. His acreage, just beyond village limits, has a lot of trees, and they attract a lot of birds. Saskatoon berries grow throughout western Canada, north to the Yukon and Alaska, and into the western and north-central USA. The fruit is good - sweet and a little nutty - similar to blueberries in nutrients, although more closely related to apples, great in pies or processed into jam. I like them on my cereal. Maurice sent me home with a bag full, in much better shape than the ones handed out to his avian visitors.
More bird photos to come, although none will be as gaudy as this!
Photographed in Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2024 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Dientes gualdos - Ondas blancas
Mariposa escasa incluso en la misma península ibérica donde se distribuye de manera dispersa. Al resto de Europa parece ser que no ha pasado de una pequeña zona del pirineo oriental francés.
Su planta nutricia es Cephalaria leucantha. (Escabiosa blanca)
Spanish fritillary
Butterfly scarce even in the same Iberian Peninsula where it is distributed in a scattered way. It seems that the rest of Europe has not gone beyond a small area of the eastern French Pyrenees.
Its nutritious plant is Cephalaria leucantha. (Scabious white)
Damier des knauties, Damier de Godart
Papillon rare même dans la même péninsule ibérique où il est distribué de manière dispersée. Il semble que le reste de l'Europe n'ait pas dépassé une petite zone des Pyrénées françaises orientales.
Sa plante nutritive est Cephalaria leucantha. (Blanc scabieux)
For 121 Pictures in 2021 #35 "Fibre", broccoli is a nutritious vegetable very high in fiber (or fibre, as it is spelled elsewhere).
By October, when the visitors to our area thin out to a trickle, the wildlife species become more evident. An additional factor is the colder days and nights; they quicken their pace to match their need to bulk up for the long winter. The Coyotes look great at this time of year, dressed up in their luxurious winter coats. I am seeing a lot of coyotes these days, but so far no photos that I like as much as this shot from two years ago.
Two years ago, there was a bumper crop of grasshoppers. The farmers and ranchers were less than thrilled, but those billions of insects provided easy and nutritious meals for a lot of critters higher on the food chain. Just ask this coyote. He'll tell you they are delicious.
Actually, I have tried grasshoppers - many years ago - and they weren't bad. However, this time I left them all for the birds and mammals. The coyote is looking very intent as he prepares to snatch another hapless hopper from the dry grass.
Three "fall celebration" shots remaining, then on to a new image set.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2021 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Red Crossbill, female
"A fascinating finch of coniferous woodlands, the Red Crossbill forages on nutritious seeds in pine, hemlock, Douglas-fir, and spruce cones. Their specialized bills allow them to break into unopened cones, giving them an advantage over other finch species. Several types of Red Crossbill exist; they each have different calls, feed on particular conifer species, and might represent distinct species.” www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Red_Crossbill/overview
This female is a type 4, feeding specifically on Douglas Fir cones.
Here a female American Goldfinch does her part to dismantle one of my gorgeous red sunflowers. Its seeds will be packed with nutritious protein and fat to power her southward when the cold weather sets in.
Photographed in my back yard in Val Marie, Saskatchewan. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2016 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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The Oyster mushroom, or Pleurotus ostreatus var. columbinus,BLUE OYSTER MUSHROOMS, they look like part of a Symphonic Orchestra, the Tuba section?
Oyster mushrooms (there are several varieties and subspecies) are some of the most nutritious around.
According to R.H. Kurtzman, PhD., they are a rich sources of high-quality proteins and amino acids, B vitamins, and pro-vitamin D (the vitamin a lot of people are missing these days, as indoor jobs means little sun exposure).
Minerals such as iron and potassium are also present.
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Two Psyllid species.
The one below is a fully grown adult. Their nymphs weave lerps to cover themselves, but the small birds find the lerps very nutritious, and feed on them, forcing the nymphs, if they are left behind, to keep spinning new covers.
The Psyllid above is an immature specimen of a larger species. These provide food for ants which feed on their excrement.
Both Psyllids were found on a Eucalyptus tree.
Urban Canberra, Australia, December, 2014.