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wweeta.bsky.social
Susannah 🍁
@wweeta.bsky.social
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I photograph and write about the world I see around me here on Vancouver Island: the forests and hllls, things green and wet, the none- to multi-legged critters that scramble, ooze, and slither on our beaches, birds and the occasional beast.
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Cladonia lichens, with bright red apothecia. Part 3 of the annual "Things that Made me Happy this Year" list. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/thin... #VancouverIsland #Lichens #NaturePhotography
An upright club lichen growing on a tree trunk. Each "club" is a pale green pillar about 1 cm. tall, covered with tiny, powdery balls (soredia). The fruiting bodies, apothecia, are borne on the tips of these clubs and are bright red. One club, on the left, holds 10 of these red tips.
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Bear by the side of the road, last July. In my annual "Things that Made me Happy this Year" list, part 2. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/thin... #VancouverIsland #Bears #Animals #Wildlife #NaturePhotography
A black bear with his back to us. Loose-limbed, long-haired, a brown so dark it's almost black. He's looking at something on the ground among the weeds. In front: the edge of the road. Behind the bear: a few trees, deciduous and evergreen, then behind them, the blue of a lake.
December 19, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Quinsam River, last June. In my now traditional annual "Things that Made me Happy this Year" list. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/thin... #VancouverIsland #Rivers #Summer #NaturePhotography
A summery look at a small, green river between banks with small deciduous trees, then evergreens behind them. The river flows left to right; only a small area, with white foam, under the far bank, is in sunlight; the rest is in deep shade. The water closer to the viewpoint is still, shallow, full of rocks. Sunlight shines on a few of them.
December 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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#Crustmas
elizabethbeston.bsky.social Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 3d
I bet you’re wondering how many different copepod nauplii I’ve photographed over the last 3 years, aren’t you? Well, I can tell you that it’s 408! Including this little pooper (yes, it poops!)

#marineplankton 🦑
December 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Mushrooms growing on a twig fallen from the trees. Hypholoma sp., possibly. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... #VancouverIsland #Mushrooms #Fungi #NaturePhotography
A mossy twig held on an angle, bottom left to top right. A group of mushrooms sprout out of the twig, curving to hold the caps facing towards the end of the twig, which must have been growing upright in the tree it fell from. The mushrooms are palest tan, a bit darker at the bottom of the stems and the peak of the caps. The caps are wide, umbrella-shaped, with gills faintly seen underneath. The moss is delicate and pale green.
December 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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😻😻😻CLEANSING THERMONUCLEAR FIRE IS CANCELED FOR THE MORNING!

GOODNESS REMAINS IN THE WORLD!😻😻😻
joshisimmigration.bsky.social Josh Goldstein @joshisimmigration.bsky.social · 4d
One of the biggest moments of my career:
USCIS canceled my client’s naturalization oath ceremony. We filed a lawsuit, went to trial, and the judge swore him in right there in the courtroom!
December 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Sapsucker wells and resin rivulets on a Douglas-fir. With Cladonia lichens. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/of-w... #VancouverIsland #Birds #Lichens #Trees #NaturePhotography
The trunk of an evergreen tree. It has been drilled by a Red-breasted Sapsucker, who makes a series of holes, in rows and columns on the side of living trees. Each hole is about a finger-tip wide. The tree has responded by oozing sticky resins to heal the wounded area. It drips down in yellow and whitish rivulets, and has hardened there. On both sides of the trunk, where there are no sapsucker holes, Cladonia lichens are growing.
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Fungi on the sawed end of a log. Trichaptum sp. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/sapw... #VancouverIsland #Mushrooms #Fungi #Polypores #NaturePhotography
A sawed-off log, left after clearing a trail, has sprouted a ring of small shelf mushrooms; they grow clustered closely together, on the cut end, from just inside the bark to a few inches towards the centre of the log, covering the sapwood of the tree. The mushrooms are shelf-shaped, slightly pinkish, faded brown. The log's bark is blackish, scaly. On the left are a few green leaves of salal, and in front, fronds of dried ferns.
December 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
stevesilberman.bsky.social Steve Silberman @stevesilberman.bsky.social · Dec 8
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
A menorah in a window across the street from a building displaying a Nazi flag.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Oh, you're tired after taking care of your one kid for the entire day?
December 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Red-belted polypore, Fomitopsis mounceae, on mossy log. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/drip... #VancouverIsland #Mushrooms #Fungi #Polypores #Conks #Guttation #NaturePhotography
A shelf mushroom, also called a conk. This one is brown mixed with black; the wide rim is off-white. The red "belt" is the border between the dark top and the whitish rim; in this one, it's narrow and barely reddish. The underside (not seen) is white. Along the bottom edge of the rim there's a row of clear droplets; they are secreted from the flesh of the mushroom; the process is called guttation. The top of the log is covered with a variety of small mosses.
December 14, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Trying to arrange the furniture in the nest before the arrivals in the New Year but mate is busy eating sushi (duck?) in the kitchen area 🤣🤣🤣

Sat 13 Dec 2025 Delta BC 🇨🇦🦅❤️🦅

I monitor bald eagle nests in the delta area and document the progress on my YouTube and blog 🥰
December 14, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Re-upping this example of feline grace and dignity for #Caturday
hawaiianimages.bsky.social James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social · 8d
When the toy mouse goes into the box... #CatsOfBluesky #Catsky
Kittywampus, a ticked tabby cat contorted into Cat Topology in an effort to get the toy mouse he is, in fact, lying on top of.
December 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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White and yellow witches butter fungus. With a globular springtail. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/back... #VancouverIsland #Mushrooms #Fungi #Invertebrates #Springtails #NaturePhotography
On the bark of a dark, wet log, are several small, bright blobs of jelly fungus. Some are yellow, some are white with yellow bases. On one of the yellow blobs, at lower left, there's a brown globular springtail. Also scattered on the bark are bright green squamules and two pillars of a Cladonia lichen.
December 13, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Christmas cactus on a windowsill. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-co... #VancouverIsland #Flowers #BloomScrolling #NaturePhotography
Christmas cactus flowers have a tubular shape, with what looks like two sets of bright red petals, (actually tepals) at the start and end of the tube. At the mouth of the tube, the reproductive organs protrude: the stamens, with white fuzzy filaments, and the style, with dark red tips. Background: green leaves, plate.
December 12, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Pileated woodpecker, diggging ants out of a tree. #VancouverIsland #Birds #Birding #NaturePhotography
December 11, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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This is missing the distance as being measured by time... I went back home to visit last weekend - oh how far? 6 hours drive. Or for my in-laws it's an 8 hour flight
December 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Pileated woodpecker, carving up a tree. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/red-... #VancouverIsland #Birds #Birding #NaturePhotography
A black and white bird with a red head and strong bill. She's crow-sized. A female; males have a red moustache and the red crest extends forward over the eyes. Most of her body is black, but there's a white line at the top of the wing, and a wide white curve down her neck. She stands on a mossy tree trunk; the moss and bark are above her. From her beak level down to the bottom of the photo (2 body lengths) the wood is bare, chipped and ragged and hollowed out. She's been chopping and eating ants for hours. Background; the green of her evergreen forest.
December 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Sparrow on a dock. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/more... #VancouverIsland #Birds #Birding #LBBs #NaturePhotography
A streaky brown sparrow, standing on the 4x4 board curb along the edge of a wharf. There's a black cord knotted at the lower left, with some dock hardware. Background; dark blue water, blurry reflection of a grey boat.
December 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Mallard in shallow, grassy water, Campbell River estuary. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/gras... #VancouverIsland #Rivers #Estuary #Birds #Birding #NaturePhotography
A female mallard, angled away from the camera, resting. She's patterned in browns and beige, each feather outlined on her body and wings; the pattern on her head is finer, with less contrast. Her bill has an orange tip; the bottom and the edge next to her head are outlined in orange as well. Her legs, underwater, are orange. She's reflected in the water, slightly blurred as the water moves gently.
December 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Campbell River estuary on a quiet winter afternoon.
New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/clou... #VancouverIsland #WaterReflections #Rivers #Estuary #Winter #NaturePhotography
View over still water. On the right, there's a point of land; evergreen trees, bare, brown shrubs, pale grasses at water's edge, mud banks. On the far side of the estuary, the shore is lined by trees, some green, many bare; beyond and above those can be seen the roofs of houses, then more evergreens. And above all that, clouds with a few blue patches of sky. The land forms and the clouds are reflected in the water in front. The predominant colours are blue and grey.
December 6, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Reflections in still water.
New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/peac... #VancouverIsland #Reflections #Trees #NaturePhotography
Upside-down tree reflections. At the top of the photo, the rocks (the rip-rap) protecting the shore are seen, just their reflections; the photo starts at the waterline. Weeds and grasses grow over the rocks. Below the rip-rap, two small deciduous trees spread their bare branches, a bit rippled by the movement of the water. The water reflects the sky; pale, slightly bluish grey; it's a cloudy winter day.
December 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Watch out! This kelp crab is waiting for a chance to grab you! (On a piling under the wharf.) New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/shap... #VancouverIsland #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #Crabs #MarineInvertebrates #NaturePhotography
An underwater photo. On the left, there's a barnacle-covered piling. On the piling, there's a kelp crab, blurry in the semi-dark and the moving water. He is stretching out his long chelipeds, pinching jaws wide open, ready to grab anything that comes near. (Does he see me, above him, with the camera?) The crab is brown, with bits of orange. The water is green, with whitish reflections.
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Relatable Corvid
December 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Big, unnamed, splotchy-gilled mushroom, and more. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/look... #VancouverIsland #Fungi #Mushrooms #Invertebrates #Insects #NaturePhotography
There's always more. The photo shows a large gilled mushroom. The gills are white, deep, and marked with brown spots. The rim is all that's seen of the cap; it's a light brown. But there's more; just under the rim there's a fly with long, whitish wings. And below that, a small brown moth. Beside these, almost invisible against the background, there's a harvestman. And at the bottom of the photo there are two clumps of yellow coral fungus, Ramaria sp. The ground is covered with twigs and evergreen needles, with a few leaves of green moss.
December 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM