I saved two lives today.
A moth was caught in a spider web:
I pulled it out and carefully plucked off all of the web material.
Off it flew.
Later, I found another floating on the pond:
Same story. I pulled it out, dried it off and away it flew.
Thank-you to Meegan Conklin for moth identification.
This all happened at St. John’s Conservation Area near Fonthill.
There are a good variety of trails here:
The Tulip Tree Trail features enormous Tulip Trees .. something we don’t see in the Toronto area:
The Sassafras Stroll features sassafras growing both as a tree and as a shrub. This sweet-smelling plant has a variety of leaf shapes:
Other botany:
There is a large pond here with benches surrounding it:
Some of the life here:
NATURE POETRY
Dog Days bright and clear,
Indicate a happy year;
But when accompanied by rain,
For better times our hopes are vain. – Proverb
Miles Hearn
Thanks for the chuckle this morning Miles!! For sure a life and death situation! 🙂
Hi Miles and thanks yet again for bringing nature from all over the province to our various devices. A great was to start the day!
A couple of unsolicited comments: on your photo of Niagara Conservation map sign above, top right-hand corner, there’s an image of what looks like a tufted titmouse. A curious choice if it is. Are they common to the area? I’ve never seen one, ever
Also, it could be argued that we need more spiders and fewer gypsy moths, but I’m sure the moth was grateful!
Bless your heart, Miles! I’ll never forget the time one of us (sorry, I can’t remember her name) noticed a bird caught in (I can’t remember the plant, something very sticky! It was in High Park) and how you painstakingly, with such care, freed that bird. I know, I know–Nature Red in Tooth and Claw, everyone has to eat, Prime Directive (of non-interference) which Star Trek kept breaking, anyway–but once we are there, we are, indeed, part of the drama. Bless your compassion–and thanks for the pictures, Miles!