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_DSC3710-ARW - This statue called Pine Sanctuary is located at the entrance to Riverwood in Mississauga (a small conservation area along the banks of the Credit River). It is certainly eye catching with bold light green and cyan colouring although I like the bw image better. I think the bold colours obscure the complexity of the structure to a certain degree.
Pine Siskin against fall foliage in my yard in Chester County, PA.
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I've got a real thing for Pine Marten - there's something about them that has me hooked!
Since having some amazing encounters with them this summer, as hopefully these photos show, I'm looking forward to getting back up to Scotland over a couple of trips next year for more time with them.
I had to go higher and higher to find virgin snow. I hate it when the snow is all tracked up by humans, but I sure love critter tracks. Stay tuned for the pine marten pic. I waited an hour for him to come out.
I got back yesterday from a two week trip to Ardnamurchan, testing out a couple of new locations for Pine Marten photography. I was a little unsure as to how it would work out, but it turned out to be the best experience I've had with these animals to date. Absolutely loved it! Expect many more photos to come! I'll try and vary it with my recent Little Owl project and the hedgehogs in my garden ;)
Note - I've had a number of people ask if these were taken from a paid hide. They're not.
there was a beautiful ambience in the pine forest when the sun shone for the first time after so much recent rain!
It's interesting to spend time with the different species of birds in the yard and see the differences in their behavior. While our Brown-headed nuthatches are friendly and talkative to me when they come to the feeder, and the Tufted titmice pretty much ignore me, the Pine warblers are somewhere in between - they clearly don't care that I'm standing only a few feet away, but they quietly watch me while they're eating at the feeder. Only in the past few days have a couple of them began to chirp back when I whistle at them.
Another bird in our winter yard - as I've said before, these tiny guys are very tame. As are the kinglets - a Ruby-crowned just about landed on my arm the other day. When I put mealworms out, the pine warblers & bluebirds are the first to show up.
>> my Georgia yard, last February
I'm just back from a trip up north to the Black Isle in Scotland to James Roddie's hide. Originally I'd planned to go at the end of June, but due to COVID lockdown restrictions I had to cancel. Fortunately I was able to postpone to the end of July to spend 3 days in the hide.
It was supposed to be a trip with a friend of mine, but given social distancing we were unable to go together and so it became a solo camping trip.
I have a real fascination with Pine Marten and was hopeful to get up to Scotland at some point this summer to see them. I'm hoping to spend more time in Ardnamurchan again (perhaps next year) but camping surrounded by midges there didn't appeal this time around!
I was really hoping to see kits having only ever seen them at night before. They were showing regularly at James' hide so I went with eager anticipation. It wasn't until my third and last day, right at the end of the day (8.30pm) that one visited with her mum. The kit is actually on the left, having outgrown his (suspect he's a male) mum already! Amazing to see and I was chuffed to bits!
Pine Grosbeaks live in open evergreen forests with spruce, pine, or fir across Canada, in mountainous regions in the West, and in subalpine forests in Eurasia. In the Sierra Nevada in California they occur in open red fir and lodgepole pine forests usually higher than 6,000 feet. In the Rocky Mountains they are most common in valleys near timberline (above 9,000 feet). In the winter they either stay in similar habitat, move to lower elevations, or to areas with abundant mountain ash, maple, and ash fruits and seeds.