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Lichen agaric (Lichenomphalia ericetorum). Belcarra, British Columbia

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Two lichen agaric fungi viewed from below to show the gills.
April 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Nature’s architecture is unmatched.
Twisted roots, leaning limbs, and still it reaches for the sky.
Every trail holds something ancient, wild, and quietly powerful.

#VancouverIsland #BCNature #TreeMagic #RootedInNature #ForestVibes #ASMRHiking #NatureLovers #HiddenGems #TrailTherapy #EcoBeauty
July 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Eyelash cup fungus (scutellinia scutellata). Golden Ears Provincial Park, BC.

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Three orange cup fungus with eyelashes among some vibrant green moss.
July 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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A tiny #fungus on the forest floor. Belcarra, #britishcolumbia

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A tiny orange fungus with a serrated cap pokes out of the moss and cedar needles on the forest floor.
June 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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On the forest floor in Belcarra, British Columbia.

Can any experts help with an identification?

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Four delicate brown-capped mushrooms among the moss on the forest floor.
April 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Last one in today's little series of pollinators on bright yellow flowers. Another skipper at Burnaby Lake, BC.

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A skipper, side-on and facing slightly away from the viewer. Its long tongue is getting nectar from a cluster of yellow flowers.
August 2, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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A European skipper, I think. Burnaby Lake, BC in the interpretive garden at the Nature House.

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A skipper moth, rusty brown in color, on a vivid yellow flower.
August 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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A tiny mushroom with an even tinier spider making its web beneath the cap. Belcarra, British Columbia.

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A tiny mushroom grows among green moss. A tiny orange spider is spinning a web beneath the cap of the mushroom.
July 18, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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An Anna's hummingbird feeding in a backyard of tall grasses and wild flowers. Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.

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A hummingbird hovers as it feeds from a bright pink flower.
July 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Mushrooms on the forest floor. I am not sure of the identification so I have submitted to iNaturalist. Possibly sub-genus galerina, some of which sound scarily poisonous.

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A clump of mushrooms growing on the forest floor among moss and fir saplings.
May 19, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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A pika on an old avalanche debris slope. Near Lindeman Lake, Chillwack Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia.

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A pika peeks over a rock at the hikers below. It has a startled look on its face.
August 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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A common ensatina (ensatina eschholtzii) (a type of lungless salamander). Belcarra Regional Park, Port Moody, BC, Canada.

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An orange-brown ensatina viewed side-on. It is sitting on a bed of moss on the forest floor.
August 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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A bee (possibly an orange-legged furrow bee, halictus rubicundus) hard at work on a black-eyed Susan. Burnaby Lake, BC in the interpretive garden at the Nature House.

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Side profile of a bee as it visits a black-eyed Susan.
August 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Feeling a bit too sick to go frog-hunting today so I've been browsing last summer's pics.

Here's a Pacific #treefrog nestled in a leaf at Burnaby Lake, BC.

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A pacific treefrog peeking out of a curled leaf.
May 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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A different view of a Pacific #treefrog that I posted a few days ago. I decided I like this angle better, and what we all need in these trying times is more pictures of beautiful frogs.

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A lime green Pacific treefrog clinging to a branch.
May 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Two more pikas on an old avalanche debris slope. Near Lindeman Lake, Chillwack Lake Provincial Park, British Columbia.

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A pika watches from a rock. The pika is in side profile, sitting at a 45 degree angle on a sloped rock face. A pika sitting on a rock.
August 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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I found this Pacific wren on a very hot (for us) day. It was breathing hard and had found a spot next to a stream to cool down.

Belcarra, British Columbia.

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A Pacific wren sits on some moist moss next to a stream.
July 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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An Anna's hummingbird resting in the evening. Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.

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An Anna's hummingbird is perched on a fence wire. Its head is cocked, looking at the viewer.
July 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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DeBoville Slough showing off — calm water, big sky, and so much wildlife around.

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May 21, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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A very successful frog-hunting trip yesterday. Four Pacific tree frogs and several bullfrogs and green frogs. Burnaby Lake, BC.

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An bright lime green Pacific treefrog clinging to a branch.
May 14, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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A female sooty grouse, June 2025.

She was foraging among the tall grass and flowers at the lookout halfway up Mt Seymour just a few metres from the parking lot.

I was struck by the variety of plumage on the head, and the bright yellow ridge above the eye.

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A side portrait of a female sooty grouse.
July 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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A Northwestern salamander in a pond on Third Peak (702m), Stawamus, #squamish. Salamanders can remain in the juvenile form even when mature adults (neoteny) esp. at higher elevations.

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A Northwestern salamander in the paedomorph form. The salamander is face-on, with all gills flared out and making a crown around the head.
June 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Two moss capsules held together by a single drop of water #moss #bcnature #iseemoss #ilovemoss #bryophytes
Two moss capsules stand a few millimetres above forest floor, held together by a drop of water.
April 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Pacific treefrog showing off its cute toes as it sticks to a skunk cabbage leaf.

Today at Burnaby Lake, BC on the path to the observation tower near Piper Spit.

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A lime green treefrog clings to a vertical surface. It's toes are splayed and you can see the pads on each toe.
July 29, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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The second Northern red-legged frog beside a stream at Belcarra, BC.

COSEWIC Status: Special Concern

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A Northern red-legged frog, viewed from the back. The frog has bits of forest foliage stuck to it.
July 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM