Nature Pics

[Frelga]

What's the scale here? Are those pebbles or large boulders the size of a small boulder?

[Impenitent]

Bull ant is about an inch long.

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[RoseMorninStar]

Bull ant is about an inch long.

OMG!

[Jude]

I have a vid of a self-effacing brown snake who crossed the track during that walk that I'd be happy to share.

There are self-effacing brown snakes? Do they go around saying, "Oh go on, don't mind me... I don't want to be a bother"?

[Impenitent]

If snakes could speak, that's exactly what that snake would have said.
Most Oz snakes are supremely non-aggressive; they slink away when they hear you coming, to avoid attention and clear the road for you.

As snakes go, they're my kind of snake.

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[Jude]

I discovered another hiking trail a mere 15 minutes from my house. That's one thing I love about Ottawa - it may not be Edinburgh, but it does have a lot of hidden surprises.

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Question: if you happened to unexpectedly come across Willow Matilde while hiking alone, would you think you had stumbled upon a black wolf?

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Edit: I suppose the tag hanging from her collar is a giveaway, but supposing she wasn't wearing it?

[Frelga]

No. She doesn't look remotely wolflike. Why, did someone?

Do you have wolves in the area?

[Jude]

There are wolves in the area, but they tend to avoid humans so they're only spotted occasionally.

Anna would occasionally get mistaken for a wolf, but so far nobody has said that about Willow. Which I thought was odd because Anna was so obviously a German Shepherd, ad not everyone knows that they can be all-black. But then, Anna would move with the characteristic lope of a wolf, and Willow doesn't.

[Frelga]

I guess if I were genuinely concerned about wolves, I might see anything dog shaped and wonder. But those ears don't say wolf at all.

[Inanna]

Which ears say wolf to you?
Curious minds want to know.

[Frelga]

Wolf ears?

Of actual dogs, mostly sled pulling breeds, like husky, malamute, or tamaskan. There are some shepherd breeds that are fairly wolf like, but I have never looked at a German Shepherd and thought it looked like a wolf. And I grew up around German Shepherds of a much leaner, less sloping shape than I see now.

Some people think the Caucasian Shepherd, aka Wolfcrusher, looks like a wolf, but it's actually a cross between a bear and a couch.

[Maria]

She kinda reminds me of Anna Cornick in this series:

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Of course, Anna is a werewolf, so actual wolf morphology may be a bit off.

[Inanna]

How is that series, though?

[Maria]

I actually like it a lot. It is technically a spin off of the Mercedes Thompson "Moon Called" series, but I like the "Alpha and Omega" series a bit better. Both are excellent. Lots of paranormal romance books are utter crap, but these two series are great.

[Impenitent]

Point Roadknight beach.

The cove in the last photo was the scene of phone tragedy, as Marc's phone encountered ab aggressive wave and was fatally damaged.

The fault was mine; I was carrying is phone in my bag while taking that very photo with my own phone. My attention thus distracted, the wave came upon me unawares.

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[RoseMorninStar]

Oh my, such lovely photos! It's a shame about
Marc's phone. I had that happen with a camera in Hawaii. Saltwater is no friend to electronics.

[Inanna]

What lovely pics!

[Maria]

Very nice pics!

[Frelga]

Beautiful photos, Impish!

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The most perfect picture of a murmuration of starlings. Captured at Lough Ennel in Monaghan, Ireland


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