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Weekday Nature Walk: Wetland Wonders

14 Apr 2021 1 minute read 9 comments tych0_21

October, 2020 January, 2021 March, 2021 April, 2021 Part of what makes nature amazing to me is how much it can change in such a short amount of time. Only a few months ago, this forest was quieted by the chill of winter, but now it is coming back to...

Weekend Nature Walk: The Watering Hole - Canivorous plants, raptors, groundhogs and more

10 Apr 2021 2 minute read 5 comments tych0_21

Today I visited a bog called The Saul Lake Bog Nature Preserve. The preserve is named after John and Mikel Saul, two brothers who emigrated from Ireland and lived on the land beginning in the 1860s. Today, the property is established as a conservati...

Weekday Nature Walk: Morel Hunt leads me to "The Great Ganoderma"

8 Apr 2021 1 minute read 2 comments tych0_21

Today, I went out hoping to find my first morels of the year; no luck just yet! That isn't to say that there were not plenty of other teasures waiting to be found out in the woods. Rather than focus my search on one region, I split my time between tw...

Weekend Nature Walk: Feathered friends in my favorite woods

3 Apr 2021 1 minute read 3 comments tych0_21

Today I returned to one of my favorite woods near my home, a mixed conifer and hardwood forest whose floor is dotted with granite boulder left behind from receding glaciers some 12,000 years ago. While on my walk today, I was visited by a few feather...

Why I Love Wildlife Photography - Alligator Edition #1

1 Apr 2021 3 minute read 8 comments PierreL

As some of you probably know, one of the things I love the most is wildlife photography. I bought my camera to shoot videos, and it's definitely not the best for stills so I get frustrated pretty fast, but it allows me to play around enough for now a...

Being quiet isn't the same as being lazy & having different opinions doesn't make you crazy

30 Mar 2021 3 minute read 2 comments Andrastia

Hello everyone I know, it's been ages since I've posted on Publish, I'm so sorry, it's been rather manic the last month and a half. We moved which entailed packing many many boxes. We decided to get out of the city and into the countryside, we found...

Feathered friends on the pond

22 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments tych0_21

There is a forest reserve near my home where I enjoy taking hikes on the weekends. In the forest, there are two small ponds. One is directly adjacent to one of the trails that offers a beautiful view in the Fall as the leaves begin to change, and the...

Turning Disney movies into a Netflix wildlife documentary

22 Mar 2021 2 minute read 0 comments PierreL

If you know my Youtube channel, you're probably familiar with my Trailer Mashup concept, for which I take the audio of a blockbuster movie trailer and edit footage from an animated movie to it. I usually try to take movies that follow the same topic/...

Weekend Nature Walk: Spring wildlife and fungi

21 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21

I returned to the same reserve I had visited last Friday and was treated to even more wildlife encounters. Within a the first mile of my walk, I came across another snake of the same variety I had found the previous week (I've since learned that they...

Weekend Nature Walk: Images of Fungi and Snake

14 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments tych0_21

I decided to go for another walk this weekend to test a new camera I am borrowing. The location I visited is a small forest reserve and environmental education center with stands of both pine and mixed oak forest. Attached are images of various funga...