24Jul/14
The small green caterpillar and the Nikon R1 Speedlight Wireless Flash System

The small green caterpillar and the Nikon R1 Speedlight Wireless Flash System

I subdued the light from above by installing a diffuser covering the subject. This also greatly eliminates the reflections of the sky on the caterpillar. I also installed a reflector to open up some shadows by reflecting natural light and that of one of the SB-R200 flashes of the Nikon Speedlight R1

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02Jul/14
Female Wood Duck and her chicks – video

Female Wood Duck and her chicks – video

Just the other day I had a wonderful opportunity to observe a female Wood Duck and her chicks as they rested on a rock in the middle of the river. It was

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28Jun/14
Little Green Grasshoppers

Little Green Grasshoppers

Little Green Grasshopper Tettigoniidae – (Tettigoniidae / Katydid) – Nuns’ Island It seems that no matter where you go on this planet you can find a grasshopper. Well, maybe not in Antarctica.

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27Jun/14
Nesting Red-winged Blackbirds

Carouge à épaulettes qui niche

Les premiers Carouges à épaulettes arriver en 2014 Le temps passe très rapidement, car il me semble que juste hier les premiers Carouges à épaulettes arrivaient dans la grande région métropolitaine de

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27Jun/14
Nesting Red-winged Blackbirds

Nesting Red-winged Blackbirds

First 2014 Red-winged Blackbirds to arrive Feels like just yesterday the first Red-winged Blackbirds had just arrived. I can still see them struggling to survive the last few frigid winter days as

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19Jun/14
The Eastern Cottontail Rabbit

The Eastern Cottontail Rabbit

Eastern Cottontail Rabbit Just the other day I had a chance encounter with an Eastern Cottontail Rabbit. To my surprise it was large, easily twice the size of our Brush Cottontail Rabbits

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19Jun/14
The Eastern Cottontail Rabbit

Le Lapin à queue blanche

Le Lapin à queue blanche L’autre jour j’ai eu une rencontre avec un lapin à queue blanche. À ma surprise, il était au moins deux fois plus gros que le Lapin de

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12Jun/14
Feeding White Bread to Wild Ducks and Geese is Killing Them

Nourrir les canards et les oies sauvages aux pains blancs les tue

Dernièrement dans les parcs nature, les bernaches est les canards se parade avec leurs petits. Je ne peux que m’empêcher de remarquer les gens qui les nourrissent aux pains blancs. Surtout avec toute la sensibilisation que plusieurs

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12Jun/14
Feeding White Bread to Wild Ducks and Geese is Killing Them

Feeding White Bread to Wild Ducks and Geese is Killing Them

Lately the local Canada Geese and ducks have been parading with their newly hatched offspring. In local nature parks, you can’t keep but notice people feeding them white bread. Bread they shouldn’t

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14May/14
Owl Chicks – Do you know what to do if you find one on the ground?

Oisillons de hibou — savez-vous quoi faire si vous en trouvez un sur le sol?

Dernièrement, il me semble que je rencontre un grand nombre d’oisillons de hiboux dans la région de Montréal. Je ne m’en serais pas trop préoccupé jusqu’à ce qu’un de mes amis m’appelle pour

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