chickadee feeding photos

Kristina took these wonderful photos at our last meeting of the chickadee feeding. Thanks so much Kristina!

Just a reminder to others with cameras: If you have photos you would like me to put up on the blog to share with the rest of the group, please send them to me. If you send them as a JPG that is easiest. I know I never managed to get the photos from our digital photo day up. I'm still working on that, believe it or not, now that I've managed to figure out a way to protect them.

The images on this site are protected under a Creative Commons license, which you can read more about if you scroll down and click on the link at the bottom of the blog. This means that others are free to use them, but they must attribute the photo correctly, and the images can't be sold or changed. It is an honour system, but the CC licenses tend to be as well-respected as we can get on the Internet without putting writing right on the photos.

Finally, if you have a photo that includes someone else's children, and if they are identifiable in the photo, I'd like you to make sure that the other parent/guardian is aware and amenable to the photo being posted online before sending the photo to me. Thanks!

itty bitty swallowtail caterpillar

Further to the last post, here's a photo of the creature that emerged from the egg, about a week and a half after it was laid. It's now been working on the carrot for about a week:


It's not quite as long as my thumbnail yet. Tiny! But the colours are starting to become noticeable. If you click on the photo you can see it a little closer. It's definitely patterned to look like a bird dropping, but as it gets larger it will develop a distinctive pattern of warning colours. I'll try to keep photos coming!