Photos of Animals, Fish, Birds & Bugs on a Canoe Trip

[Alan Gage]

Here is Sadie pointing at a frog in Woodland Caribou:


And here she is pointing at a chipmunk (but you can't see it because it's under the rock):


Now she's pointing at a Porcupine on the Thlewiaza River:


Alan

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

We see lots of these way back in the bush, It is illegal to pick them in Ontario.

What are they?

 

[stevet]

Pink Ladyslipper

 

[jffdejongh]

Here is Sadie pointing at a frog in Woodland Caribou:


And here she is pointing at a chipmunk (but you can't see it because it's under the rock):


Now she's pointing at a Porcupine on the Thlewiaza River:


Alan

She really does get to the point on your trips

 

[rabb]

View attachment 127468Dolly Varden, yum.

Mason,
How do you prepare that fish on trip? I'm heading North in a few weeks - hoping to catch lots of Dolly Varden and one of my dinners will be fish tacos. Normally I deep fry the fish for fish tacos, but wondering if putting fish crisp on a Dolly would be a sin?


rabb

 

[Mason]

Mason,
How do you prepare that fish on trip? I'm heading North in a few weeks - hoping to catch lots of Dolly Varden and one of my dinners will be fish tacos. Normally I deep fry the fish for fish tacos, but wondering if putting fish crisp on a Dolly would be a sin?


rabb

In aluminum foil on a fire. I was neither the angler nor the cook, just the diner.

 

[Canoe Down Under]

Pelican success! ’Birds in flight’ have always been my photo nemesis, so hopefully this slow, obliging and almost cartoon-like image of a pelican from my canoe this week will change all that. Lake Illawarra, NSW. The background video is at Pelican success video, and the image is here:

 

[lowangle al]

Not on a trip, but I saw this guy caught in a trap where I live. I stuck around to see how a guy can take a turtle like this in a kayak. He took him alive right in the boat with him. He told me he had six turtles in his kayak one time.

 

[Sweetfancymoses]

Painted Turtles earlier this month in the Boundary Waters.

 

[Rubbaboo]

My favourite insect.

 

[Rubbaboo]

Does anyone know what this is? Found in a cattail marsh.

 

[Simuliumvenustum]

Orange belted bumble bee, Bombus ternarius, Lows Lake, NY. Photo was taken on October 23, 2022.

 

[ppine]

There is a certain river in Oregon we call the "Wildlife Safari." Twenty bald eagles a day, osprey, kingfishers. Bighorn sheep and herds of elk swimming across the river below camp. When I take a nap I wake up staring at mule deer fawns. Beaver, muskrat, otters and mink swimming under the boat. Alas I have no photos. They are all in my mind's eye.

 

[ScottS]

Hudsonian Godwit that I spotted Oct. 31, in the Wheeler Marsh, coastal Connecticut. Not a great photo, but a seldom seen bird. It's a long migrator - nests on Hudson Bay and Arctic coast, winters in Argentina

 

[ScottS]

Spotted four Ruddy Ducks in the Mattabesset River near Middletown, CT. We're at the very northern tip of their migration territory. First time that I've seen them in the wild. Nov. 23, 2022

 

[ScottS]

There is a certain river in Oregon we call the "Wildlife Safari." Twenty bald eagles a day, osprey, kingfishers. Bighorn sheep and herds of elk swimming across the river below camp. When I take a nap I wake up staring at mule deer fawns. Beaver, muskrat, otters and mink swimming under the boat. Alas I have no photos. They are all in my mind's eye.

Sounds like the Umpquah.

 

[lowangle al]

This was a very juvenile goose born this spring, letting me know how it feels.

 

[MrPoling]

'gator, Murrell's Inlet, SC

 

[ppine]

Sounds like the Umpquah.

Umpua River. Nope. I have run it in a raft and a drift boat.

White pelicans are very common in Nevada. They breed at Pyramid Lake the outlet for Lake Tahoe.
Has anyone ever seen a Pelican Helix?. They find thermal updrafts and ride them in a spiral to gain altitude. Sometimes there can be 100 in a flock gliding in a tight spiral. Their white feathers flash bright in the sun.
Like a Stairway to Heaven. .

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

Has anyone ever seen a Pelican Helix?. They find thermal updrafts and ride them in a spiral to gain altitude. Sometimes there can be 100 in a flock gliding in a tight spiral.

For anyone interested in collective noun bird-word trivia, which could be a whole thread in itself:

"The most common collective nouns for a group of pelicans are a squadron, pod, pouch or scoop of pelicans. Squadron perhaps refers to how pelicans fly in line formations, whereas pouch or scoop refers to their large bills with underslung pouches designed for scooping up fish and other food."

What is a Group of Pelicans Called? (Complete Guide)

Pelicans are gregarious and social birds that colonise islands and coastal areas, so, what is a group of pelicans called? The most common collective nouns for a group of pelicans are a squadron, pod, pouch or scoop of pelicans. A group of Pink Pelicans Other terms for a group of pelicans A brief of…

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