Visitors

We have Tibetan monks visiting Brantford and making a sand Mandela.



Photo by Églantine.

FBO Outing

Églantine and I were out with the Field Botanists of Ontario yesterday in the area of the Halton Hills. One of our finds was Laetiporus sulphureus. It's common, and more colourful, name is "Chicken of the Woods."

Two Deer

While on our Monday evening wild flower walk, we kept seeing deer. I think we saw at least 12 by the end of the walk and we were only a couple hundred metres from a four-lane highway on two sides and a residential area on the other two in a small bit of meadow and forest.

Odonate Count

Églantine and I went out on an odonate count at the Hamilton/Burlington Royal Botanical Gardens yesterday. We were looking for dragonflies and damselflies.



Some of the dragonfly hunters were more excited about the hunt than others.



I think the official count will come out later this week or maybe next week but we did see quite a few and held some in hand for closer looks and identification. This one was a female Easter Amberwing.

Strange Cloud Formation