The photo at right is, I strongly suspect, two slugs “getting busy” under an artichoke plant. After I found them and took some intrusive pictures, I did a bit of internet research. This is from the wikipedia entry on slugs: “Slugs are hermaphrodites, having both female and male reproductive organs. Once a slug has located a [...]
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Tagged: Chewing Things/Chewing Things Off, Tasteful Erotica, Wildlife
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- July 23, 2012 – 9:22 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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- July 4, 2012 – 9:36 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
This morning I was surprised to see a river otter fishing for goldfish in the little pond in the corner of our field. It crunched them down noisily and seemed very pleased with itself. Later, I went back to the pond to check on it’s progress, and found it rolling around like a playful puppy [...]
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Tagged: Wildlife
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- April 12, 2012 – 9:59 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
While out jogging this evening I almost ran into a wolf. The sorts of advice freely given about dealing with wildlife tend to go into one of my ears and out the other – Many, many times in my life I’ve had people offer up complex advice regarding the best ways of dealing with sudden [...]
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Tagged: Poultry, Wildlife, Wolves!
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- March 19, 2012 – 9:34 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
Jessica found this adorable newt while working in a perennial border this afternoon. It seemed to be asleep, and slowly woke up as we looked at it and took it’s picture. It may or may not be Taricha granulosa, the rough-skinned newt.
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Tagged: Wildlife
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- October 12, 2011 – 9:30 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
Yesterday, while chopping up some blooming borage plants for use as mulch, I was stung by two bees in the space of about thirty seconds. I’d recently heard that bee venom is healthy for some reason or other, so I counted myself lucky, and didn’t remove the stingers. I figured I’d take a full dose [...]
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Tagged: Bees, Wildlife
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- August 2, 2011 – 10:55 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
Pictured at right is Jessica’s patch of sweet peas, in full bloom. We both fretted over the plants in March and April, as the resident slugs repeatedly mowed them down. In May our concerns vanished, and in June they started blooming. They have already been cut a number of times for use in bouquets, and [...]
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Tagged: Plants, Wildlife
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- July 21, 2011 – 10:20 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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- May 25, 2011 – 8:40 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
We have had a wet spring, and our field is overrun with slugs. Once the farm is established, I expect the slug population will be controlled by the construction of snake habitat and perhaps the introduction of ducks. A systematic, integrated approach to slug control will take time to develop, and I need less slugs [...]
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Tagged: Wildlife
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- May 11, 2011 – 10:42 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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Tagged: Wildlife
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- April 28, 2011 – 7:11 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
Jessica and I are going to Asia for a while, and won’t be back in Canada ’till February. This blog isn’t dead, its just resting. I will start posting again sometime around the first or second week of February. Thanks for following, and have a nice winter.
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Tagged: Animals, Fungi, Plants, Wildlife
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- November 15, 2010 – 3:38 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
I found this leggy creature resting on a dirty rag under the hay barn. She (he?) didn’t seem to mind my camera, though I did receive a snarky look after I took it’s photograph.
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Tagged: Wildlife
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- November 3, 2010 – 6:48 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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Tagged: Wildlife
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- October 12, 2010 – 7:28 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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- September 20, 2010 – 5:19 am
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
The frog pictured at right showed up one night to deposit a present for Jessica and I on our kitchen windowledge. Not wishing for it to become trapped in our cabin, I gently brushed it off the ledge back toward the lush undergrowth that resides just outside our kitchen window. I assumed that frogs are [...]
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Tagged: Animals, Wildlife
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- September 18, 2010 – 4:59 am
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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Tagged: Wildlife
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- August 14, 2010 – 9:38 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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Tagged: Wildlife
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- August 9, 2010 – 10:41 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
Open Bay is home to a healthy population of snakes, and they seem to enjoy dining on slugs. We experience far less gastropod damage to our gardens here than we did back in North Vancouver. Almost every day I come within inches of stepping on at least one snake – They tend to rest perfectly [...]
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Tagged: Wildlife
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- June 9, 2010 – 10:14 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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- May 30, 2010 – 9:57 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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Tagged: Wildlife
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- May 26, 2010 – 10:45 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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Tagged: Wildlife
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- May 25, 2010 – 11:20 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk
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- April 24, 2010 – 10:20 pm
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- By Ryan Nassichuk