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Livin on a prairie 🌾
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Prairie girl | photo taker | birder | native plants🌿, bugs & wildlife | gardener | mental health | science & nature art | environment | city planning | Polish | Winnipeg, MB 🌾 - 📷 mine unless RT
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Last night's northern lights were pretty amazing, even within city limits 🔭✨

#aurora #northernlights #Canada #nature #auroraborealis #Winnipeg
A tall section of aurora cascading down towards the horizon in reds and pinks, tipped in bright green A section of last night's aura moving diagonally towards the upper right, from pinks and yellows at the bottom to greens at the top. You can spot a few stars in the dark sky behind it. A beautiful ribbon of aurora sweeping the sky in bright green, starting at the bottom left with a wider dark pink section. A few city lights light up the horizon in the distance. A beautiful sweep of aurora raining down diagonally across the sky, pink on the left and bright green moving upwards toward the right.
November 13, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Fall days at Gimli, Manitoba 🌿

#Manitoba #travelmanitoba #Gimli #autumn #fall #lakelife #naturephoto
The sun sets, lighting up the golden tree line on North Beach in Gimli, MB. A bird's nest on the edge of the tree line near the beach in Gimli. The famous Gimli Viking statue from the back, in evening light. A pelican glides along the beach shore in soft evening light.
November 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Goodbye autumn...you always inspire

#Manitoba #fallcolor #nature #leaves #naturephotography #forest #color
Orange and red aspen leaves in the evening Sun An image of bright yellow aspen leaves in the distance taking through green foliage creating a dreamy bokeh effect. Golden willows at the marsh in Assiniboine Forest. A long white haired seed caught in a blue stem grass seed head in a grassy field.
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Beautiful Nopiming Provincial Park, I hope to see you again soon 🍁🌿🍂.

Nopiming suffered from devastating wildfires this year, affecting 124,000+ hectares of forest.

#Manitoba #naturephotography #fall #nature #hiking #Nopiming #autumn #landscape #lakelife #forest
Nopiming Provincial Park in fall, a view from the edge of Bird Lake. Tall stands of evergreens and golden Tamaracks line the distant shore. Images taken before the devastating 2025 wildfire season. A section of rushing water at Tulabi Falls curves around a cliff of exposed bedrock. The smaller deciduous trees in the foreground have already lost their leaves but evergreens adorn the cliff across the watery divide. A Canadian Shield outcropping at the edge of Black Lake in Nopiming Provincial Park. The water is very calm on this overcast day. Where Tulabi Lake turns into Tulabi Falls and starts to descend over boulders of bedrock - one of my favourite spots to stand and listen to the rushing water. Out of frame to the right is a very tall cliff with a stunning overlook point.
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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The prairie is busy with Canada geese heading south 🍁👋

#naturevideo #birdsky #nature #birdwatching #Manitoba
October 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Reflections on a marsh in Autumn 🍁

#Fall #Manitoba #nature #migration #birdwatching #naturephotography
Grasses neighbouring a farmers field where a nearby marsh is a haven for migrating birds. A large leopard frog sunning itself on fallen leaves. Canada geese flying over a marsh near Beaudry Provincial Park. Canada geese flying over a farmer's field near Beaudry Provincial Park.
October 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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A peaceful evening at the lagoon 🌿

#naturephotography #nature #birdsky #birdwatching #moody #Manitoba
October 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Cobra chicken staging area 🌾🪶

#fallmigration #birdwatching #birdsky #naturephotography #Manitoba
A large group of Canada geese gather on a golden farm field in autumn on an overcast day.
October 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Fall colour appreciation post 🌿🍂🍁

#fall #autumn #naturephotography #Manitoba #forest #colour #nature
Striking variation in fall colour in a view overlooking the tall aspen in Whiteshell Provincial Park. A range of fall colour in sumac leaves - from the purple stems to red, orange and green of the leaves. A brightly coloured aspen leaf held up against the background of the forest in fall.
October 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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This plump forest chicken was the highlight of my hike 🌿.

🪶Ruffed grouse, Whiteshell PP
#birding #birdwatching #Manitoba
#naturephotography #nature #birdsky
A ruffed grouse walking up a forest trail in autumn at Whiteshell Provincial Park in Manitoba. A ruffed grouse crouched down in the moss near a forest trail, looking towards me as I passed by.
October 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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The whispering* of quaking aspen in the fall 🍁🍂

*Also known as psithurism or susurration. Susurration is an onomatopoeia.

#trees #fall #Canada #Manitoba #rustling #nature #fallcolor #leave #sound
October 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Saw them band several swamp sparrows (the most abundant visitor there this year), a Nelson's Sparrow which was a lifer for me, a ruby-crowned kinglet and a butterbutt. Haven't had a chance to download the bird pics yet but here's their tally for this season.
October 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Hello young feathered person 🪶 in a local creek

#birdwatching #birdsky #birding #birdphotography #Winnipeg
A young Great Blue Heron stands in a local creek in Winnipeg, focused on movement in the water, rather than my presence on the path nearby.
October 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Crisp fall evenings at Clear Lake, Manitoba 🍁
#Manitoba #staycation #RMNP #fall #nature #naturephotography #lakelife
The sun is setting over Clear Lake, bathing the evergreen forests in golden light as a mist settles over the water. A wooden dock pokes into the frame from the left, with 4 gulls resting on it
September 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Feeling blessed to work near a park on this crisp fall morning 🌿.

#Winnipeg #urbanpark #nature #goodmorning
Foresty landscape at an urban park in Winnipeg, as the sun rises above the horizon. Everything is still green but soon fall will bring rich colour.
September 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Useful fall graphic for gardeners who enjoy birdwatching 🌿🪶

#birdsky #gardening #birds #garden
#birdwatching
An illustration of 9 garden plants to not cut in the fall in order to support birds through winter. Coneflowers, black-eyed susans, sunflowers, joe-pye weed, goldenrod, ornamental grasses, sedum, asters and native shrubs. Each illustrated flower has a different bird on it.
September 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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Mushrooms are wondrous things ✨

📍 Whiteshell PP, MB

#fungi #mushrooms #fall #nature #Manitoba #naturephotography
September 1, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Fringed and bottle gentian are in season, and spectacular 💜

#wildflower #nativeplant #prairie #Manitoba #naturephotography
#nature #flowers #onthetrail
A newly unfurled fringed gentian on the trail at Birds Hill Provincial Park. Close up of a bottle gentian growing next to goldenrod in the forest.
September 1, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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Fields of gold near Brunkild, MB 🌿

#sunflowers #flowers #rural #prairie #Manitoba #harvest #naturephotography #nature
A zoom into a sunflower field backing onto rail tracks in Manitoba on a stormy day. Half the image is a large sunflower on the left, with fresh bright petals. The sky is dark blue in the distance as a train passes by. A zoom into a sunflower field backing onto rail tracks near Brunkild, Manitoba. You can see grain rail cars on the tracks in the distance, with graffiti on them. The sky is dark blue as a storm was brewing but the sunflowers are very bright - some sun was peeking through. The Richardson Pioneer grain elevator near Brunkild Manitoba, with a mature sunflower field in front. The skies are heavy with storm clouds.
August 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Sharing a tiny fierce danger noodle I came across at Pinawa Dam Provincial Park 🌿.

#snek #reptile #naturephotography
#nature #wildlife #Manitoba #Pinawa
A young garter snake in a defensive loosely coiled posture on the ground at Pinawa Dam Provincial Park. I took a few shots from a distance with my zoom lens and quickly moved on. A young garter snake in a figure eight defensive posture on the ground at Pinawa Dam Provincial Park.
August 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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The sweetest little duck nugget 💛

#birdsky #naturephotography #nature
#duckling #birdwatching #Winnipeg
A fluffy wood duckling stands at the edge of the St. Vital duck pond, looking around. Only its feet are underwater. Wood ducklings become independent much earlier than other duck species and this was alone. The image is coloured in a sepia tone.
August 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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American goldfinch dining on thistle seeds at Fort Whyte Alive.

#birdwatching #birdsky #nature
#birdphotography #Winnipeg #birds
A male American goldfinch sits on a thistle stem in the forest. He's facing forward but looking to the side. The same goldfinch moved over to another clump of thistle and sits facing away from the camera, to the right. The contrast between his lemony body and black wings and tail feathers is very striking.
August 1, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Hugemongous water dino spotted near Pinawa 🌿

#turtle #wildlife #naturephotography
#nature #Manitoba #snappingturtle
A very large snapping turtle is swimming along the surface of the water at Pinawa Dam Provincial Park. A very large snapping turtle is swimming along the surface of the water at Pinawa Dam Provincial Park. Movement is captured as it propels itself forward, flippers open wide, with its nose raised above the water.
July 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Wood frog checking out the lily pad scene at the English Gardens.

#herps #frogs #naturephotography #urbanwildlife #Winnipeg #summer
July 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Spotting a River Jewelwing damselfly is like finding a gem in the woods. You don't quickly forget the beauty you witnessed.

#odonata #naturephotography
#nature #insects #dragonfly #Winnipeg
One of the prettiest damselflies, the River Jewelwing, rests lightly atop a single lilac bush leaf. It's positioned sideways to the camera. One of the prettiest damselflies, the River Jewelwing, rests lightly atop a single lilac bush leaf. In this image the male is facing towards the camera.
July 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM