late summer / early fall thoughts

You couldnt come up with a jollier name for a bird if you tried

📍Hamilton, ON, James Street North between York Blvd to Murray St East, 5pm-11pm

Fish bag sample for classes this spring/summer

Lil damselfly 🪷 they remind me of little fairies on my walks, everywhere but also impossible to capture on video !!

oil on canvas

Gerda Wegener The Crinoline from serie The Pleasures of Eros 1920

The fancy Redwinged Blackbird with potential bilateral gynandromorphism is still around, here are some more clips from the last couple of days. I have not edited them other than stringing them together for this video. This is how they were recorded. Every time I think it must be a molt, this bird turns around and looks completely like a female. So intriguing. It also has a lot of red on the face.

Edit: I also just noticed that you can see the right ('male') wing and leg are longer and thicker than the left ('female') side!! Male RWBL are usually a little bigger and heavier than the females so seeing this on the same bird is so cool!!

Lil' velociraptor vase from the spring (sold)! 🌱♦️

Hedden Pond, New Jersey - June 12th 2026

Divine (1979)