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Dave Ingram's Natural History Blog

http://www.daveingram.ca

Dave Ingram's photoblog featuring nature photography and writing about British Columbia, Canada and beyond. Emphasis is on macro photography of plants, insects and marine life.

Added on: Aug 10th, 2009
Country: Canada
Language: English

Author: Dave Ingram
Listed in: Natural Photo Blogs
Tags: Nature plants macro british columbia Botany insects

Recent Posts

And the Moss Shall Inherit the Earth

Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 17:14 in Nature, plants, moss

Moss on Curb During my walks from the house to the library or the grocery store I noticed a little community of moss hard at work breaking down an old cement curb that used to be the base for a wrought iron fence. It gave me some hope that nature is...
Jelly Crep

Posted on Wednesday November 25th, 2009 at 23:11 in fungi, mushrooms, crepidotus mollis, jelly crep

Jelly Crep (Crepidotus mollis) on a dead tree. I have to admit that I’m fascinated with all the mushrooms that I’ve been discovering this fall (and now early winter). I found these Jelly Creps (Crepidotus mollis) growing on a dead tree in...
Merville Woods Mushrooms – Part 2

Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 02:05 in fungi, mushrooms, british columbia, vancouver island, merville woods, colourful gomphidius, rosy gomphidius

Earlier in November we enjoyed some mushrooms at Merville Woods, a second growth forest characterized by mixed conifers including pines. This post features a few more mushrooms that we found there. One was a mushroom that we had identified on a prev...
Lungwort

Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 13:16 in plants, lichen, macro monday, lungwort

Lungwort | Lobaria pulmonaria November storms provide an opportunity to look at lichens that are usually a little higher up and out of reach. This week, while walking at Miracle Beach Provincial Park during a lull between squalls we found some beaut...
Backyard Birds – November 16-22

Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 16:03 in british columbia, birds, bird watching, feeders, vancouver island, courtenay, project feederwatch, backyard birds

As part of Project Feederwatch, I’m keeping an eye on our feeders two days out of the week to help scientists track winter bird activity, abundance and diversity. It’s a great way to spend an hour or two drinking coffee and peering out in...
Merville Woods Mushrooms – Part One

Posted on Saturday November 21st, 2009 at 15:07 in fungi, british columbia, vancouver island, cortinarius, dotted-stalked slippery jack, merville woods, pungent cortinarius, western red-capped cortinarius

We took advantage of good weather last week to get out to Merville Woods, just north of Courtenay, British Columbia. This is an area that is characterized by sandy soil, mixed pine and other conifer forest and a thick under story of salal. It’s...