It’s a laborious but joyful spring chore for boaters in Nova Scotia: taking off the winter cover, cleaning her, fixing her up, painting her bottom, waxing her sides perhaps, and getting her ready to launch. Owning a boat means using a lot of elbow grease, unless you’re wealthy enough to hire someone to do it [...]
Yesterday, Dennis Robinson, the Chickadee Dude (see our Chirbles the Chickadee pictures), spotted an indigo bunting, described by the Peterson guide as “casual” to Nova Scotia, in the Annapolis Valley. The startlingly blue-feathered bird watched the chickadees from afar. But finally, he decided that the chickadees had a good thing going and decided to check [...]
There is a neighbourhood outside the Town of Mahone Bay, on the road to Lunenburg, that is quite overrun with deer. We drove past it today and saw this group on a lawn. We were actually able to turn around and drive back to take pictures without them shying away. Cute, you think? Only if [...]
Sunny weather is forecast for the next week, with no temperatures below freezing. Time to plant some lettuce. Not for this bunny to eat, however (I hope). Only a few weeks ago the rabbits I saw were quite white. This little fellow has his summer coat on now. He (or she?) looks quite delighted with [...]
A beautiful day begs a bike ride. We headed for Martin’s Point, which sticks out into Mahone Bay between Oak Island and Indian Point. Martin’s Point points towards the many Mahone Bay islands that we like to sail to and around. Like many coastal areas, it has a mixture of century-old homesteads, decades-old bungalows, and [...]
I’ve just set up a new section of the photo album called “Chirbles the Chickadee, his Friends and his Enemies”. It features the nature photography of the “Chickadee Dude”, Dennis Robinson. He has a special relationship with his chickadees and loves to capture their personalities with his camera. Some of these photos of Nova Scotia [...]
After a beautiful day in the LaHave-Green Bay area I’ve posted a few new photos to Oceanside and a couple of new panoramas. We saw this Great Blue Heron on Bush Island, in the LaHave Islands chain. Share and Enjoy:
It was a beautiful morning laced with frost which disappeared quickly. The birdsong was joyous, and made me wonder what it was like when the world was young, before DDT and all, when the birds’ habitat was their own. A song sparrow (right) was hopping around by the shore, blending in with the grasses. I [...]
