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**Catherine Babault** @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social · 4 h

4 h

Catherine Babault @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social

Spot the grizzly!

A meadow with tall green grass and wildflowers, trees in the background, and a barely visible grizzly.

#wildlife #photography #VancouverIsland

**Catherine Babault** @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social · 19 h

19 h

Catherine Babault @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social

One of the grizzly bears that have settled on Vancouver Island.

A beautiful blond grizzly bear in a field of wildflowers and grass.

#WildlifePhotography #photography #wildlife

**Wanderin' Weeta** @WWeeta@flipping.rocks · 1 j

1 j

Wanderin' Weeta @WWeeta@flipping.rocks

Sometimes, a stone from the beach, brought home, carries periwinkle snail shells the size of a grain of sand. Left to rest a moment, those shells often turn out to hold tiniest hermit crabs. Here's a sand-grain-sized hermit, waiting for transfer to a comfortable aquarium. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

A miniature hermit crab in a white bowl, wearing a juvenile periwinkle shell (body whorl, 2 coils in the spire). The hermit's legs and chelipeds have alternate bands of orange and white; the first segment of each cheliped is blue. The eye stalks are barrel-shaped, wider than the tiny dark eyes. One visible antenna is palest green with white lines; the antenules, between the eye stalks, are mostly orange.
The hermit rests beneath part of a stem of brown algae.

**Susannah** @wweeta@mstdn.ca · 2 j

2 j

Susannah @wweeta@mstdn.ca

Hairy hermit showing off those hairy chelipeds and legs. See the second hermit? Look for the eyes. #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

Two hermit crabs. The large one faces us, eyes forward, dotted-line antennae spread wide. All four walking legs and the two chelipeds are visible here. The legs are orange and greenish brown, and have white and blue patches. The large cheliped is a bright orange. The smaller cheliped, in focus, shows the many sensitive hairs along its full length. Between the two chelipeds are the third pair of maxillipeds (mouth parts). The second hermit, the same species but much smaller, faces away from us; look for the two black eyes on their stalks above the mouth of the brown and white mudsnail shell.
On the right there's an old abalone shell and part of a brown kelp holdfast.

**Catherine Babault** @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social · 3 j

3 j

Catherine Babault @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social

Happy #FungiFriday to those who celebrate! Found this interesting fungi in an old-growth forest in the fall. I don't know the name.

A large piece of white fungi growing on an old log covered by green moss and a few rusty leaves. The background is dark.

#nature #photography #VancouverIsland

**Wanderin' Weeta** @WWeeta@flipping.rocks · 3 j

3 j

Wanderin' Weeta @WWeeta@flipping.rocks

Stranded at low tide. A Hairy hermit retreats into a shell too small to hide completely. The blue cheliped is newly-regenerated; hermit blood is blue. (Moved to a safer, protected location after the photo shoot.) #VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

On a sandstone beach, a hermit crab lies exposed in the sunshine. He lies with three legs and the large cheliped wrapped around the shell, closing the opening; the rest of his body is hidden inside. The antennae are visible; one makes a loop, repeated in his shadow. The first segment of the large cheliped is bright blue; the rest of the hermit is greenish grey, partly obscured by sand grains, which also coat the whelk shell; a strand of sea lettucee is wrapped around the spire of the shell. (The white circle with a dark centre in the loop of the antenna is not an eye; it's a small barnacle; two others are visible in the sunlit area.)

**Catherine Babault** @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social · 3 j

3 j

Catherine Babault @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social

#BloomScrolling - From my archives: a polinator at work on a pink mountain-heather (Phyllodoce empetriformis) in an alpine meadow on Vancouver Island.

A bee getting some nectar from a pink flower. There is a cluster of pink flowers that look like little bells on a stem. The background is green and blurry due to the short depth of field.

#nature #photography #VancouverIsland

**Catherine Babault** @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social · 3 j

3 j

Catherine Babault @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social

May 29 is #WorldOtterDay Can you tell the difference between a river otter and a sea otter?

Three sea otters playing in the sea. One is on its back and the other two on top.

A sea otter stands up in the sea and looks away.

Two river otters on the coast. One is in the sea on the edge of the shore and the other one is walking on the shore. The shore is rocky and covered with yellow kelp.

A river otter on a rocky shore in the morning light. The blue sea fills up three quarter of the photo.

#wildlife #photography #VancouverIsland

**Catherine Babault** @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social · 4 j

4 j

Catherine Babault @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social

This morning I didn't see the two killdeer chicks born on Monday. There are predators like snakes and lizards there so it would explain their absence. However I saw a couple of killdeer reproducing so there is hope for more chicks in the summer.

A killdeer stands on a rock with some moss and short grass. The background is green and blurry due to the short depth of field. The killdeer looks to the left.

#BirdsOfMastodon #photography #wildlife

**Wanderin' Weeta** @WWeeta@flipping.rocks · 4 j *

4 j *

Wanderin' Weeta @WWeeta@flipping.rocks

All dressed up: another hairy hermit, this one wearing a moon snail shell patterned in blues and greens, the blues matching Hermie's knee markings.
#VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

Side view of a mostly brown hermit crab, showing the large cheliped, and two legs, these with blue and white patches. One eye is visible, striped in black and palest blue-green. The green and white spotted antenna catches the light at its tip, so it looks orange. The hermit wears a round shell, from a moon snail; it's eroded and covered with algae, some green, some a light blue. The hermit walks on a collection of shell fragments, with a couple of entire mudsnail shells. Background; the colours of assorted seaweeds, red, green and bright yellow (this is a piece of a kelp float.)

**Catherine Babault** @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social · 4 j

4 j

Catherine Babault @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social

I stayed home today like this European starling (Sturnus vulgaris), which I photographed last week. I have hundreds of photos to process of wildflowers, birds and a grizzly. I don't like to accumulate a backlog so I always sort, process and archive my photos right away.

A European starling nesting in a tree cavity. We can see its head and shoulders only. There is green foliage behind the tree.

#BirdsOfMastodon #photography #wildlife

Suite du fil

**Ms. Que Banh** @PhotographyElf@socialbc.ca · 5 j

5 j

Ms. Que Banh @PhotographyElf@socialbc.ca

Cooked up two live #crabs last night & ate them. Cooked the other three crabs & put in freezer - to make Vietnamese bun rieu soup later.
Indigenous friends caught them near Sidney waters

#seafood #CookedCrab #food

**Catherine Babault** @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social · 5 j

5 j

Catherine Babault @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social

For #WildlifeWednesday I have an update on the eaglets: they're being well fed by both parents, they awkwardly stretch those big wings once a while, bicker like true siblings and spend the rest of their time napping.

Two eaglets, about one month old, in a big nest made of twigs and branches on top of a pine tree. One parent is seen in the photo keeping an eye on the sky.

#birds #BirdsOfMastodon #photography

**Catherine Babault** @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social · 5 j

5 j

Catherine Babault @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social

Grizzly bear drinking in a river on Vancouver Island this morning. One of the most iconic species living in this region.

A grizzly also known as brown bear drinks in a river. A forest reflects in the water so it looks dark green and there are some pebbles here and there.

#grizzlies #photography #wildlife

**Catherine Babault** @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social · 6 j *

6 j *

Catherine Babault @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social

Two killdeer chicks (Charadrius vociferus) born this morning on the shoreline of Vancouver Island.

Edit: I kept a very safe distance and used a telephoto lens. The photo is cropped.

Two chicks sheltering from the strong winds under the wings of their parent. The shoreline is covered by small rocks and there is a bit of grass on their right.

#birds #wildlife #photography

**Wanderin' Weeta** @WWeeta@flipping.rocks · 26 mai

26 mai

Wanderin' Weeta @WWeeta@flipping.rocks

Baby Hairy hermits are tiny, barely visible to the naked eye. They grow rapidly, through a series of molts, always moving to a larger shell. Here a juvenile (teenager?) climbs a broken kelp holdfast, behind an adult. They're wearing similar shells, in appropriate sizes.
#VancouverIsland #HermitCrabs #IntertidalInvertebrates #Invertebrates #MarineLife #DailyHermit

Two hermit crabs on a piece of kelp holdfast (part of the greenish, spherical float, and several tube-like branches, reddish-brown to almost black). One hermit is small, has pale orange legs and chelipeds, and wears a small, round shell. He climbs one of the kelp "tubes". The second hermit, apparently the same species, but 4 times the size of the first, is greenish, with white patches on her legs; they match those of the youngster. Her shell is similar, but much larger. She sits peacefully, watching the world go by.

**The Vinyl Ape** @TheVinylApe@cupoftea.social · 26 mai

26 mai

The Vinyl Ape @TheVinylApe@cupoftea.social

Exhale.
It’s over.
The Ape is heading home.

Every time I’m away from this place, and spend time in other places, I appreciate it more and more, and realize just how lucky I am to live here.

Bringing home lots of #records , #books , and immense #gratitude for life on this island.

#BritishColumbia #canada #vancouver

**Catherine Babault** @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social · 26 mai

26 mai

Catherine Babault @CatherineBabault@mastodon.social

While tracking bears, I stumbled upon a Columbian black-tailed deer fawn (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus). Its mother was not around but it didn't mean that the fawn was abandoned or orphaned. However it was curious and didn't hide from me so I took a few shots and quickly left.
Featured in my book Wild Vancouver Island.

A fawn with white spots on its back stands in tall green grass and looks at the camera.

#photography #wildlife #nature

**Aaron Pengelly** @AaronPengellyPhoto@pixelfed.social · 25 mai

25 mai

Aaron Pengelly @AaronPengellyPhoto@pixelfed.social

Kingfisher appreciation post.

These birds are one of my favourites found here on Vancouver Island. They are feisty, active, and can be challenging to photograph up close without disturbing them making it that much more rewarding when they pose for you.

#birds #birding #birdwatching #wildlife #wildlifephotography #vancouverisland