Wagner Natural Area

Poster for Wagner Natural Area Volunteer appreciation day. John Acorn discussing the butterflies of Wagner Natural Area. Saturday November 22nd, 2-4PM Spruce Grove Pioneer Centre 301 Jespersen Ave Spruce Grove.

Next Saturday we're celebrating our volunteers! Come out to Spruce Grove Pioneer Centre to hear Naturalist John Acorn discuss the butterflies of Wagner Natural Area. You don't need to have volunteered for us to attend!

Green Elf cup fungi seen on my woodland walk with two tiny red spider mites sitting on the top

Green Elf cup fungi seen on my woodland walk with two tiny red spider mites sitting on the top
#GreenElfCup #fungi #toadstool #redspider #autumn #nature #macro

It looks like a number of migratory #bird flocks may have landed near Finnegan to avoid flying in rain showers Friday afternoon. #abstorm

A Marsh with grass, sedges, and yellow and green conifer trees.

The larches are changing colour out at Wagner Natural Area! If you've never been, it's a beautiful time of year to visit.

A Canada Goose resting on top of thick, rusty pipe sticking vertically out of the water, with a sign attached to it.

Interesting spot for a Canada Goose. #birds #Birding #TommyThompsonpark #Toronto

Four of a family of coyotes stand in the golden light of the morning sun along a rocky, shore against an wall of fallen limestone cliffs. The coyote in the middle is staring off into the distance while two other feed on the remains of fish. The fourth coyote is looking over the shoulder of the one on the right, hoping to get a taste.

Two coyotes in the golden light of the morning sun along a rocky, shore against an wall of fallen limestone cliffs. You can't see the head of the one on the right, who is presumably feeding on fish carcasses. The one next to it has it paw on the other's back, trying to get its attention.

Three coyotes in the golden light of the morning sun along a rocky, shore against an wall of fallen limestone cliffs. The one on the left looks off into the distance, ignoring the other two. You can't see the head of the one on the right, who is presumably feeding on fish carcasses. The one next to it has it paw on the other's back and is snarling, trying to get its attention, annoyed that it's not getting to share in that particular fish.

A few more photos from my morning with the coyotes from my kayak. The sun had cleared the horizon at this point and the fish left by the commercial fishermen were running out, leading to some scuffles among family members. #mammals 🌿

Close up photo of a brown and white hawk in profile. It looks very intense and a bit intimidating with its hooked beak.

The steely gaze of a raptor is a bit terrifying to be honest. Not to mention that beak

(Juvenile Cooper’s Hawk, I think) #birds 🌿

Arched concrete bridge across a prairie river with city skyline beyond.

#GoodMorningFromSaskatoon

A brown, black, and white duck with a particularly long, thin tail feather is swimming on the calm blue water from left to right.

A male Long-tailed Duck swimming past on a gorgeous winter afternoon.

Caissie Cape, #NewBrunswick, Canada
December 2024

📸 #birds #duck #marinelife #LTDU #nature #wildlife #photography #Nikon #Z9 #Nikkor800pf

The Wagner Natural Area Fall Clean Up is Happening Saturday September 27th. Come on out and help the Wagner Natural Area Society get ready for winter, 9:00AM at the main parking lot.
The larches will be changing colour and it's a beautiful time of year visit the Natural Area!

Last night, @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social, @cesar-on-safari.bsky.social , Barb and I released the rescued Powerful Owlet (it had been away for 10 days). It seemed to go very well. It and its sibling seemed excited to see each other and trilled a lot. 1/2
#brisbane #birds #wildoz

A young brownish black bear with a light brown back looks eagerly at some potential food off-camera from where it stands in a patch of shrubs.

A brownish black bear munches on some Saskatoon berries on a shrub in front of it. The sun shines on its light brown back.

A brownish black bear sniffs a shrub for potential food.

I got to spend time with this 2-year-old black bear earlier this summer. You can tell the bear is young by its ears. Black bears tend to grow into their ears. #mammals 🌿

The Wagner Natural Area Fall Clean Up is Happening Saturday September 27th. Come on out and help the Wagner Natural Area Society get ready for winter, 9:00AM at the main parking lot.
The larches will be changing colour and it's a beautiful time of year visit the Natural Area!

almost like we need someone better than ezra...

A bright blue songbird is perched on the edge of an old fencepost that has a cable running through it. The background is an out of focus grassland that is tawny coloured.

Feels like we could all use some more mountain bluebird this week
#yql #Alberta #birds #birding #wildlife 🪶🇨🇦

A green bee rooting around in the center of a bright yellow flower, looking for food.

A sweat bee busy looking for snacks. The flower is an aster and the center of the flower contains lots of small florets that produce pollen and nectar. Asters are a wonderful fall food source for lots of insects. #inverts
(Augochlora sp.) PA

A logo of a chickadee facing left atop two books

Guys. I’m in love with the newly updated New Brunswick libraries chickadee logo.

Ibex in the mist.

First nation leads effort to monitor orca-threatening ship noise The Snuneywuxw First Nation on Vancouver Island's Quiet Vessel Initiative aims to protect endangered Southern Resident killer whales by collecting acoustic data in a five-kilometre stretch regularly c...

Dr. Andrew Trites, a marine mammal expert and professor at UBC, points out that the biggest contributors to underwater noise are BC Ferries and recreational vessels. @ubcoceans.bsky.social

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/08/n...

The EcoFriendly West Fund is pleased to support the Pacific Wild Alliance’s work in supporting healthy and protected ecosystems that can sustain optimal biodiversity throughout the northwest Pacific region pacificwild.org

NEXRAD radar map showing birds and weather.

BirdCast map showing 501.1 million birds in flight at 11:40pm EDT on September 7, 2025.

Half a billion birds!!!!
#birds #fall #migration #LightsOutForBirds

I will probably never have an experience like this again in my lifetime, so I will always treasure my summer with this family of burrowing owls. 💕🪶

A glowing blue arachnid crouches on the ground. It has eight legs and a large, flat body.

A glowing blue arachnid crouches on the ground. It has eight legs and a large, flat body.

Harvestmen (like this Sadocus asperatus) never fail to impress. This species is one of over 800 in the family Gonyleptidae! Oh, also, it glows under UV light. 🌟

📷 nasha_mill on iNaturalist
📍 Chile
🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations...
#ObservationOfTheDay

A Steller’s Jay standing on a branch holding a blackberry in its right claw.

A Steller’s Jay with a whole blackberry in its bill, it looks somewhat too big for it to swallow.

Happy #ThursJay! Here’s a Steller’s Jay with a tasty blackberry to celebrate 🤤
#birds

Dad burrowing owl singing the song of his people and taking a bow. 🪶

Wagner Natural Area

Wagner Natural Area along HWY 16 west of Edmonton

If you have never been to @wagnerfen.bsky.social
i can suggest you go for a stroll
bring your camera

Wagner Natural Area maps.app.goo.gl/wgxzkJ1sSCu2...
South of HWY 16 West of Edmonton, just past HWY 44

Thanks Phil!
And when it's 30 degrees out, the walk around our marl pond trail is still shady and cool!

North Carolina’s Bogs Have a Dirty Secret, and That’s a Good Thing

Peatlands cover only 3% of land on earth, but they store 2x as much carbon as all the world's forests combined.

Nonprofit, state, federal and private sector scientists and engineers are teaming up to protect intact peatlands and restore degraded ones.

A new wetland is thriving near Brighton, Ontario! 🌿

With help from volunteers, we planted native wildflowers & grasses along its shorelines last year, expanding important wildlife habitat near Presqu’ile Bay. Now, birds, turtles & frogs are moving in! 🐦🐢🐸