Bev Wigney
@bwigney.bsky.social
Naturalist, artist, writer, musician, photographer. Native plant gardener. Re-wilding two acres of forest in Nova Scotia (Canada). Member of a Dog Tribe with my 2 Rough Collies. Environmentalist. Progressive. Vegetarian.
Born: 313.7 ppm
Born: 313.7 ppm
The Long Lake Fire in West Dalhousie has been expanding. As of this morning, NRCAN's interactive map puts it at
1,368 hectares. Today, 4 Fire Boss 802 skimmer planes from the NWT, will begin providing aerial support. Hopefully some progress will be made today.
#wildfire #NovaScotia #LongLake
1,368 hectares. Today, 4 Fire Boss 802 skimmer planes from the NWT, will begin providing aerial support. Hopefully some progress will be made today.
#wildfire #NovaScotia #LongLake
August 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The Long Lake Fire in West Dalhousie has been expanding. As of this morning, NRCAN's interactive map puts it at
1,368 hectares. Today, 4 Fire Boss 802 skimmer planes from the NWT, will begin providing aerial support. Hopefully some progress will be made today.
#wildfire #NovaScotia #LongLake
1,368 hectares. Today, 4 Fire Boss 802 skimmer planes from the NWT, will begin providing aerial support. Hopefully some progress will be made today.
#wildfire #NovaScotia #LongLake
Sun looked orange when it came up today. Skies here were hazy and pink looking yesterday. We have a bad drought going on here in Nova Scotia. Not the kind of weather you think of out here on the east coast. Terrible to see so many fires across the country. So dry everywhere. Where will it end.
August 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Sun looked orange when it came up today. Skies here were hazy and pink looking yesterday. We have a bad drought going on here in Nova Scotia. Not the kind of weather you think of out here on the east coast. Terrible to see so many fires across the country. So dry everywhere. Where will it end.
Giant Water Bugs (Lethocerus americanus) that came to the moth lamps last night.
#waterbug #nature #hemiptera
#waterbug #nature #hemiptera
July 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Giant Water Bugs (Lethocerus americanus) that came to the moth lamps last night.
#waterbug #nature #hemiptera
#waterbug #nature #hemiptera
July 17, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Eyed Paectes (Paectes oculatrix) moth. This is only the third one of this species that I've seen come to the moth sheet in 16 years of photographing moths at my place. Its larval food plant is Poison Ivy -- a plant which I've never seen growing around my own property.
#moths #biodiversity
#moths #biodiversity
July 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Eyed Paectes (Paectes oculatrix) moth. This is only the third one of this species that I've seen come to the moth sheet in 16 years of photographing moths at my place. Its larval food plant is Poison Ivy -- a plant which I've never seen growing around my own property.
#moths #biodiversity
#moths #biodiversity
Laurel Sphinx (Sphinx kalmiae) in garden by the front door.
July 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Laurel Sphinx (Sphinx kalmiae) in garden by the front door.
Another day of heavy thunderstorms on the eastern seaboard.
July 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Another day of heavy thunderstorms on the eastern seaboard.
Happy 55th annual Earth Day! I'll be planting a couple of American Chestnut and Shagbark Hickory trees that I've been tending in my little tree nursery. They are part of my re-wilding project.
Photo: of Sage2 with the Canadian Wildlife Federation sign for our property back 4 years ago.
#EarthDay
Photo: of Sage2 with the Canadian Wildlife Federation sign for our property back 4 years ago.
#EarthDay
April 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Happy 55th annual Earth Day! I'll be planting a couple of American Chestnut and Shagbark Hickory trees that I've been tending in my little tree nursery. They are part of my re-wilding project.
Photo: of Sage2 with the Canadian Wildlife Federation sign for our property back 4 years ago.
#EarthDay
Photo: of Sage2 with the Canadian Wildlife Federation sign for our property back 4 years ago.
#EarthDay
This was at the post office when I picked up my mail in town yesterday. The latest book by Steve Skafte featuring his wonderful photography. "This River Was Once A Road: Abandoned Roads of Nova Scotia" (Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, 2025).
#SteveSkafte
#books
#NovaScotia
#NovaScotiaHistory
#SteveSkafte
#books
#NovaScotia
#NovaScotiaHistory
April 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This was at the post office when I picked up my mail in town yesterday. The latest book by Steve Skafte featuring his wonderful photography. "This River Was Once A Road: Abandoned Roads of Nova Scotia" (Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, 2025).
#SteveSkafte
#books
#NovaScotia
#NovaScotiaHistory
#SteveSkafte
#books
#NovaScotia
#NovaScotiaHistory
Here's a change from my usual political posts. Hopefully once the election is past, I will stop thinking about politics for a while and just get back to spending most of my time outdoors. Video of a Raccoon foraging for something in the decaying leaves. I see them doing this often on the videos.
April 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Here's a change from my usual political posts. Hopefully once the election is past, I will stop thinking about politics for a while and just get back to spending most of my time outdoors. Video of a Raccoon foraging for something in the decaying leaves. I see them doing this often on the videos.
BOYCOTT --- EL SALVADOR!!!
Hanes (and Maidenform) are the largest industrial exporter in El Salvador.
Read about them in this story on LatAm Report from July 15, 2025.
latamreports.com/hanesbrands-...
#boycotthanes
#Hanes
#Maidenform
Hanes (and Maidenform) are the largest industrial exporter in El Salvador.
Read about them in this story on LatAm Report from July 15, 2025.
latamreports.com/hanesbrands-...
#boycotthanes
#Hanes
#Maidenform
April 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
BOYCOTT --- EL SALVADOR!!!
Hanes (and Maidenform) are the largest industrial exporter in El Salvador.
Read about them in this story on LatAm Report from July 15, 2025.
latamreports.com/hanesbrands-...
#boycotthanes
#Hanes
#Maidenform
Hanes (and Maidenform) are the largest industrial exporter in El Salvador.
Read about them in this story on LatAm Report from July 15, 2025.
latamreports.com/hanesbrands-...
#boycotthanes
#Hanes
#Maidenform
April 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I cancelled my Amazon Prime and Audible accounts 2 months ago and don't buy from Amazon anymore. When I cancelled the Audible account, I had to state a reason for cancelling. None of the bulleted reasons was appropriate.
I wrote: "Because I don't support companies that support a fascist regime."
I wrote: "Because I don't support companies that support a fascist regime."
February 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I cancelled my Amazon Prime and Audible accounts 2 months ago and don't buy from Amazon anymore. When I cancelled the Audible account, I had to state a reason for cancelling. None of the bulleted reasons was appropriate.
I wrote: "Because I don't support companies that support a fascist regime."
I wrote: "Because I don't support companies that support a fascist regime."
Noticed when I opened a new package of Cracker Barrel Cheddar Cheese today. The packaging has changed. Now it has the PRODUCT OF CANADA logo on the front below the DAIRY FARMERS OF CANADA logo. Glad to see Canadian companies getting with the program. New and old image.
#BuyCanadian
#BoycottUSA
#BuyCanadian
#BoycottUSA
February 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Noticed when I opened a new package of Cracker Barrel Cheddar Cheese today. The packaging has changed. Now it has the PRODUCT OF CANADA logo on the front below the DAIRY FARMERS OF CANADA logo. Glad to see Canadian companies getting with the program. New and old image.
#BuyCanadian
#BoycottUSA
#BuyCanadian
#BoycottUSA
Went to Seedy Saturday in Annapolis Royal this morning. Got a bundle of Black Elderberry cuttings, a bundle of Black Current cuttings, and a bag of stratified Shagbark Hickory nuts from BLACKBIRD HOLLOW nursery near Hampton, NS. Very busy.! Nice to support local peeps!
#rewilding
#BlackbirdHollow
#rewilding
#BlackbirdHollow
February 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Went to Seedy Saturday in Annapolis Royal this morning. Got a bundle of Black Elderberry cuttings, a bundle of Black Current cuttings, and a bag of stratified Shagbark Hickory nuts from BLACKBIRD HOLLOW nursery near Hampton, NS. Very busy.! Nice to support local peeps!
#rewilding
#BlackbirdHollow
#rewilding
#BlackbirdHollow
Along with the other Canadian provinces, Nova Scotia is legally required to make space for nature -- 15% protected by March 2026. It needs to step up the pace.
A message from the Healthy Forest Coalition
www.healthyforestcoalition.ca
A message from the Healthy Forest Coalition
www.healthyforestcoalition.ca
February 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Along with the other Canadian provinces, Nova Scotia is legally required to make space for nature -- 15% protected by March 2026. It needs to step up the pace.
A message from the Healthy Forest Coalition
www.healthyforestcoalition.ca
A message from the Healthy Forest Coalition
www.healthyforestcoalition.ca
Flying Squirrel at the suet feeder in my woodlot. It visits most nights.
February 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Flying Squirrel at the suet feeder in my woodlot. It visits most nights.
Just put up a new post on my Art & Nature Journal. This one is about the Flying Squirrel that comes to my bird feeder. Two short vids of the squirrel.
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January 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Just put up a new post on my Art & Nature Journal. This one is about the Flying Squirrel that comes to my bird feeder. Two short vids of the squirrel.
magickcanoe.com/blog16/2025/...
magickcanoe.com/blog16/2025/...
Letter sent this morning. See @charlieangus104.bsky.social
for more information. Anyone is welcome to copy the text of my letter if it will help you to write your own. Do it!!
for more information. Anyone is welcome to copy the text of my letter if it will help you to write your own. Do it!!
January 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Letter sent this morning. See @charlieangus104.bsky.social
for more information. Anyone is welcome to copy the text of my letter if it will help you to write your own. Do it!!
for more information. Anyone is welcome to copy the text of my letter if it will help you to write your own. Do it!!
New post up at my Art & Nature Journal. This one with a short vid of a Raccoon and a bit about my wildlife observations as we swing back and forth between mild, snowless weather, and colder, snowy spells. Drop by and leave a comment if you wish.
#nature
#raccoons
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#nature
#raccoons
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January 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
New post up at my Art & Nature Journal. This one with a short vid of a Raccoon and a bit about my wildlife observations as we swing back and forth between mild, snowless weather, and colder, snowy spells. Drop by and leave a comment if you wish.
#nature
#raccoons
magickcanoe.com/blog16/2025/...
#nature
#raccoons
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Yesterday, I got my nature journal blog up and running again after a long hiatus. I've decided to greatly reduce my use of Facebook. Here's a link to my first post in a long while. I intend to begin blogging almost daily again. Photos are my own.
#nature
#blogging
magickcanoe.com/blog16/2025/...
#nature
#blogging
magickcanoe.com/blog16/2025/...
January 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Yesterday, I got my nature journal blog up and running again after a long hiatus. I've decided to greatly reduce my use of Facebook. Here's a link to my first post in a long while. I intend to begin blogging almost daily again. Photos are my own.
#nature
#blogging
magickcanoe.com/blog16/2025/...
#nature
#blogging
magickcanoe.com/blog16/2025/...
They are pretty much year round residents in most areas of Nova Scotia. Here's a bar chart showing months when present in Nova Scotia (this is from the eBird website).
January 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
They are pretty much year round residents in most areas of Nova Scotia. Here's a bar chart showing months when present in Nova Scotia (this is from the eBird website).
A Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) has been visiting the suet feeder in my woods every night lately.
#FlyingSquirrel
#GlaucomysSabrinus
#FlyingSquirrel
#GlaucomysSabrinus
January 18, 2025 at 4:17 AM
A Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) has been visiting the suet feeder in my woods every night lately.
#FlyingSquirrel
#GlaucomysSabrinus
#FlyingSquirrel
#GlaucomysSabrinus
The birds were busy this afternoon. Look at all the footprints they made while rearranging their sunflower seeds!
January 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The birds were busy this afternoon. Look at all the footprints they made while rearranging their sunflower seeds!