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Erinn Turnbull
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😷 still masking • She/Her • hardcore introvert • pinko • garden hermit • native plants • birder 📷 • amateur flower breeder • books & news • science • ♾️ hobbies • fan of democracy #YNWA #HamOnt 🇨🇦
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I love birds so much. Look at this face

#birds 🌿
A black capped chickadee stares straight at us with disdain from his perch on a wood railing.
December 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Great photo. Such a lovely spot to stop. 💚
A landscape view looking out past green plants to water framed by forest on both sides looking ahead to open water with a small island and land with green trees in the distance. The sky is cloudy.
July 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Lowered anxiety levels a
bit with a long walk on a beach yesterday morning with my nephew, looking for birds and fossils. It was cold but sunny. If you are able to, take in some nature and fresh air, it helps. #VitaminN
View of a beach, rocks focused in the foreground looking out along the beach with the lake on the left, the blue sky partly filled with fluffy clouds, with the sun shining through onto the water in the background. A rock with a lot of long thin fossils, possibly stems. A rock with a fossil in a hole that looks a bit claw-like but may be something else. A ring billed gull stands facing left upon some stones on the beach in front of the water.
March 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Beautiful morning spent birding - we spotted an early female red-winged blackbird. 🪶 #birds
Burlington ON 🇨🇦
A streaky brown and white bird that’s a bit larger than a sparrow, is perched on a fluffy seed-hotdog of a bulrush.
March 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Repost with a photo of yours that would make a good album cover.
A favourite photo of our three feline masters back in 2017. This would be a great cover for ‘Zamfir and Friends, Pan Flute for a New Generation - Songs to Fight the Fascist Motherf@&$ers and also help you calm the f@&$ down’ Red chair, red Persian carpet, ugly red drapes, in the sunroom between the patio door and the fireplace. The first cat, Bailey, an orange calico, is sitting on the chair. The second, Buttercup, a mainly black with white calico, is sitting beside on the TBR pile of books on the wooden side table. The third, Honey, is all white and a bit of a chonk, is below sitting on the carpet. We miss Honey and Bailey very much.
March 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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We saw a huge flock of swans this morning! 🦢
#HamOnt
A large V of 69 swans fly high up in the blue sky.
March 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Big dose of much needed nature this morning. Anxiety levels back down under the red line. #VitaminN
A chickadee is perched on a small branch. Looking over bulrushes across the water to a small island with a forest of trees in the background. A red squirrel sits atop a horizontal tree trunk. A large V of swans fly overhead.
March 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen into the timeline.
(Please use alt text 🙂)
A partly cloudy blue sky reflects in the rippled water, in the foreground there are bulrushes, a small island in the water and a bridge and tree-line in the distance. The lovely Cootes Paradise in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
March 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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This was the update in today’s Ward 1 newsletter
“An emergency trail closure is in place due to snow impacting the connections between the Waterfront Trail and the Desjardins Recreation Trail. The floating walkway along the Desjardins Canal that connects the two trails has also been closed due to ice buildup. City staff worked diligently to clear the ice buildup, which had dislodged the metal access plates to the floating walkway. Unfortunately, due to the low water levels in the Desjardins Canal, the access plates are still inaccessible. The trail section between Princess Point and Bayfront Park is currently closed. City staff are working hard to fix the issue and reopen this important link between popular trails in our community. We will provide further updates as information becomes available. “
March 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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I 🩶 vote by mail.
A bright yellow and white mail-in Ontario Election ballot envelope.
February 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Ginger-bug day four is looking quite bubbly! Easiest method I’ve used so far, will post Instagram link I saw it in next post.
#StressDistractions
#MakeYourOwnFuzzyBeveragesAtHome
A large jar half filled with yellow liquid with two layers of floating and settled ginger root bits. Looking down into the jar, there are lots of bubbles coming up through the floating ginger root bits.
February 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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I look at my flower photos A LOT over the winter - it is good for my mental health - it is lovely to share them and also see those of others so thanks for sharing. 🙂
A bouquet of large bloom heirloom chrysanthemums in white, cream and salmon, held above a wooden deck below.
January 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Almost missed posting for #SquirrelAppreciationDay have taken so many photos of these super cute floofs while hiking. #CanIHazSomeNuts
#NoYouMayNotSorryBuddy
A black squirrel sits on a log. A grey squirrel sits on a log. A red squirrel is on a branch. A red squirrel is on a branch.
January 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Beautiful weather to soak up some much needed forest zen this morning.
Looking way up a tall tree trunk that has lots of light brown shell shaped mushrooms growing up it. A snow covered forest path with tree trunks on the sides and ahead. Running water and stones in a small steam surrounded by snow covered ice. A field of dried grasses and seed heads with green pine trees in the far background.
January 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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While I do grow a lot of native plant varieties to support insect biodiversity, my annual cutting garden is also very popular. The late blooming zinnias and open-center dahlias are very popular in late summer. 🦋
#butterflies #bees #FlowerReport
A Black Swallowtail butterfly sits atop a pink zinnia bloom. A side view of a Monarch butterfly atop a pink zinnia flower. A bee sits atop a pink zinnia. A bee sits atop a bright yellow and orange dahlia.
January 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Just came across this Great Blue Heron photo in my library from August 2023. He had a heck of time trying to swallow that fish! 😬 #birds 🪶
A great blue heron is standing in shallow water with a huge fish in his beak that he has just caught.
January 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Bees 💛 Buttonbush #NativePlants
A bumblebee is on a large white spherical bloom at the end of a stem, there are immature smaller green buds, the background is hazy green foliage.
January 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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One of my favourite spring blooming #NativePlants that I search out each May to admire is Wood Betony (Pedicularis canadensis). It is hemi-parasitic and often attaches to the roots of host plants, including June grass, Little Bluestem and Pennsylvania Sedge.
Hamilton, ON Canada May 2021
A close up of the multi-flower bloom - is is a dark pink with yellow insides. A photo of three blooms, you can see the fern like leaves growing up from the ground. A photo looking down on a group of plants, many fern like leaves with approximately a dozen blooms in view. Another single bloom, younger than the first photo, the upper half of this bloom is still tight and not yet unfurled.
January 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Love this - when I used to grow tomatillos, I would always miss a few and then find their little skeletons ☠️ in the garden at the end of winter. 🌱
The outer husk of a tomatillo with only the dry, brittle, brown veins remaining - it is on a wood table, the sunlight leaves a lovely shadow behind it.
January 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Another flashback #FlowerReport with 4 more dahlias seedlings that made the cut to grow again in 2025 😊 I’m really looking forward to having a larger patch of seedlings this coming season! Any gardener can try flower breeding, and it is particularly easy with #dahlias 🌱
An anemone form dahlia with a big golden yellow floofy center and a single row of long light purple petals. An open centered double dahlia with petals that start yellow in the centre and then turn orange, then red by the end of the petal - not a great form but would love to breed this colour into a fully double dahlia. A fully double decorative white dahlia. This was a really late blooming little mini chiffon-yellow not fully double bloom - it may end up staying open centered, but I wanted to give it another season as it was quite sweet 🥹
January 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Many of the ‘winter windowsill’ zinnias sown just back in mid-Nov have started to bloom! Coming up into the sunroom to enjoy soon, I had no idea zinnias would grow so happily indoors under grow lights (saw it suggested on instagram). A bit of winter flower fun. #zinnias 🌱 #FlowerReport
A closeup photo of a bright red bloom, with lots of green plant leaves and smaller pink and organge blooms beyond.
January 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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We also had SUPERCUTE baby skunks this summer 🦨🦨 safely viewed here through the sunroom window. #wildlife
January 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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And finally December, my favourite bird was this sleeping Eastern Screech Owl.
December 2, Southern Ontario 🇨🇦
#birds 🪶
🐦‍⬛ The end 🧵
A brown and white owl sleeps in the sun perched in his burrow hole in a large tree. Light fall-coloured leaves and branches are in the background.
January 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Which reminds me of this most excellent #birds comic
A comic split into four squares 1 Elegant Songbird Spring - a sweet yellow bird sings from high up in a tree 2 Subtle treasure of summer - a brown understory bird (possibly an ovenbird?) is sitting on a bush 3 Magnificent fall migrations - three beautiful raptors fly by 4 Weird Duck time - some wacky looking duck-like birds
January 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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The best thing about November is the start of ‘weird duck’ season - had to go with four - an American Coot, three Red-Breasted Mergansers, a pair of Common Goldeneye’s and three Hooded Mergansers.
November 30th Hamilton ON 🇨🇦 #birds 🪶
An American Coot, a black duck with a white bill, is in the water - he has amazing giant webbed feet, but sadly we cannot see them, we can only dream about them. Three red breasted merganser ducks with long dark orange beaks, reddish heads and dark grey bodies float together in grey-green water. A pair of common goldeneye ducks swim slightly apart, one is mostly black, the other is white on the bottom with a white spot on his face between his bright eye and his black beak. Three brown and black hooded merganser ducks swim in a row, the two males have a large white raised crest on their heads, while the female has a brown floofy head.
January 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM