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At -9C today
(The warmest we've been in weeks)

It doesnt feel like it, but

Spring IS coming

#OntWild
#DogSky #GardenSky 🐦‍⬛
February 1, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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Guys, while I appreciate being together also means you're never really alone in the garden,

Watering flowers while covered in bees is not helping my reputation with the locals

#GardensHour
#NativePolinators #OntWild
#GardenSky 🐝
July 6, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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Garden Friends

#OntWild #BloomScrolling #GardenSky 🕷️
small light green and brown jumping spider on the centre of a straw flower, waiting for a snack
August 1, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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#HappyFathersDay to this hardworking guy!

#OntWild #BirdSky 🐦
The male cardinal from the nest on my front porch
June 21, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Well, hello there!

#OntWild #SongBird #BirdSky 🐦
The baby cardinal's eyes are open! Amazingly it should be fledging in 4 - 6 days from now Parents are working very hard and there are frequent nest visits with food
June 22, 2026 at 5:14 PM
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Finally managed a half decent photo of these gorgeous whitetail dragonflie

#OntWild #NativeInsects
and now I see it's blurry... I really don't like IPhones, but I can't deny their cameras are better than Samsung
July 14, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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I haven't seen any females yet but we now have 2 male common whitetail dragonflies hanging around the pond ❤️

#OntWild
July 6, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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Flight feathers are almost all emerged 🥲

It will be out of the nest soon

#SongBird #OntWild #BirdSky 🐣
Cardinal nestling
June 24, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Watching a Northern Flicker outside my office window

#OntWild
Northern flicker Northern flicker
May 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
glaswerkt.bsky.social
spelen ze verstoppertje?
bang voor alles wat mens is
die bang gemaakt is voor natuur,
of zijn ze vermoord, door gif of giftige jagers, boeren die natuur toe eigenen, fabrieken die lozen zonder scrupules, in dit kleine land is ‘wild’ uitgestorven of achter hekken ontwild #27wild #herfstff #natuur
October 22, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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I saw both parents had just left and were across the road so it was a good time to sneak out and check the nest....

GUYS!!! Baby Cardinals!!! 🙂

#OntWild #BirdSky
#GardenSky🐦
2 fairly newly hatched chicks, I was getting suspicious they had hatched yesterday as there was more activity of the parents going back and forth from the nest Nest is in the middle of this part of the wisteria on my front porch I had been trying to train this wisteria along properly when the cardinals started nesting, so I've been waiting
June 18, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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This little guy is much less skittish than the whitetails

Meadowhawk dragonfly

#OntWild #NativeInsects
Small dragonfly sitting on some mowed grass
July 13, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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Had some turkey vulture visitors today

As someone with small dogs I'm always on high alert for big birds in the yard, but these guys are harmless

They are MASSIVE in person

#OntWild #Birding
Turkey vulture soaring over the barn My neighbours found an animal that had been hit sometime over the winter in the ditch yesterday while cleaning, and I think the birds found it
April 13, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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Found a little friend who hitched a ride on some flowers into the house,

So dropped them off amoung the zinnias

#OntWild
Crab spider on my upper arm after I'd let it crawl up my arm while I walked outside and gently encouraged it into another good habitat for it I have an enourmous phobia of heights, so I understand phobias, but I don't understand arachnophobia, they're so harmless and so good for our gardens and homes Heights can hurt you. We're ment to stay on the ground.
July 12, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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We had a cheeky little visitor, squeaking his heart out, until Sasha scared him off,

He relocated to a tree to chastise her 😄

Pleated Woodpecker

#OntWild #Birds
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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I love this so much!!

I'm really hoping to grow some butternut here, but seedlings are hard to find

#NativePlants #OntWild #GardenSky 🌳

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January 31, 2026 at 3:39 AM
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Looks like we're down to one chick, but they are growing well

#Ontwild #BirdSky 🐦
Baby cardinal, now approximately 3 days old The parents look quite young so it's great that they even succesfully hatched one They had just left to get feed but dad came back to yell at me while I grabbed the quick photo
June 21, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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Apparently we've impressed the locals 👀

#OntWild 🦉
If you look on the left most tree, just below the 3rd powerline, that is an owl 😊 It was far too dark to get an accurate ID but we have a local barred, and this one fits that size Another bird I shared with my friend (see cardinal post)
June 10, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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I've had the same phone wallpaper for at least 6 years, yes I just changed it

#Monarch #NativePolinators
#OntWild #GardenSky
Two monarchs chasing each other, past a couple tall black pine trees
July 31, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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Forcast min tonight is 10C so its the first night sleeping with the windows open of 2026!

The Peepers are PEEPING, and I expect to be woken at 5 am by screaming song sparrows & redwing blackbirds

Horny nature is so beautiful

#Spring #OntWild
April 17, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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Black caps are ready

#OntWild
Purple bird poo on the picnic table
July 12, 2026 at 10:48 PM
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Didn't see the parents so went to check the nest, when mom came out of the brush to chastise me, which she's never done before, but now I see why

Good luck little one!

#SongBird #OntWild #BirdSky 🪶
Fledgling cardinal has left the nest, I had a quick look around but mom was pretty upset so I didn't try too hard to find it
June 25, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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Getting ready for bed and I can hear the peepers out the bathroom window

Spring is here

🐸

#OntWild
April 16, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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I found a little friend on my wild grapes ❤️

I believe this is Hyla versicolor or the Grey tree frog, which has the ability to change its coloration like a chameleon

They are native and love to hang on my front door windows at night if I've left the outside lights on

#OntWild #Frog
Small green frog (approx 2" so likely a female) sitting on a large grape leaf
July 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Oh, hello.

#OntWild
Raven on the steel roof of one of my outbuildings which landed right as I was walking past
April 17, 2025 at 9:48 PM