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80Rough Skinned Newts Jeopardy
I have become the proud adoptive care-giver of some Rough Skinned Newts. Adopted not so much by the newts; they didn’t have much of a choice. A couple of kids had caught them, showed and gave them to me. Now...
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78Douglas Squirrel; the ultimate BC resident
The time is rapidly approaching when we will see comparatively little wildlife for a few months here on the Sunshine Coast. The summer has gone, all of our larger wildlife is stocking up to get ready for the winter and in a few months time will...
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75Swimming with Salamanders and Western Painted Turtles
although it is close to the Lower Mainland, the Sunshine Coast remains a unique and in many ways uncharted area, full of surprises to anyone who wants to see and spend a bit of time here. I was yet again forcefully reminded of this over the...
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74Coastal Black-tailed Deer; never think you know them...
not a day goes by without seeing at least one, if not more, of our smallish deer here this time of year. It helps of course that I spend a lot of time in out-of-the-way places like creeks, ravines or just...
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73Arbutus; the great survivor
it has been a hard winter here in the south-western corner of BC (stop laughing, rest of Canada!) and the signs of that are everywhere. In fact it somewhat reminds me of Edmonton in spring: brown and boring... but not quite as bad. And at least we...
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71Cougar chess
a lazy July Saturday afternoon, nothing much to do but watching baseball on tv and suddenly the day became much more interesting from my perspective; things I like and love doing. I received a call that some...
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72Red-breasted Sapsucker
My late father was a real birdwatcher. Not a twitcher; no checklists to tick off or rare species hunting expeditions for him, not even binoculars or a birdbook. He simply knew his bird species in the urban...
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71Poppies, Giant Hogweed and other desirable aliens
earlier this week, driving leisurely along one of the back roads in Gibsons on my way to a job I had on, I suddenly spotted the rather magnificent flower heads and oversized leaves of Giant Hogweed growing...
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71American shad in the Pacific: Seth Green's finches
although we don’t see them here on the Sunshine Coast very often, occasionally, depending on the time of year, the run and the prevailing weather circumstances, we do catch the odd American Shad (Alosa...
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69Corvus vs.Corvus: raven and northwestern crow
right in front of my deck here, a small drama is being played out. No doubt this occurs, and in the same vein, almost everywhere where raven and northwestern crow co-exist, but so far I have never seen it...
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