Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦

Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦

@secondnaturemb.bsky.social

Naturalist, writer, artist, and educator with a Ph.D. in Ecology. I make interpretive signs, illustrations, murals, and books. Sometimes, I chase polar bears and belugas. #scicomm #sciart http://www.discoversecondnature.ca

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Thanks. It’s exciting for me too. They are rarely seen, though I did have one come up my driveway last year.

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Almost round tracks in the snow made by a lynx a few days before this photo was taken

There’s a lynx in the neighbourhood. Hoping I get to see it at some point.

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1 day ago

That’s so cool!

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1 day ago

I live in Manitoba.

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1 day ago

Nice! I was really hoping for clear skies.

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A snow-covered yurt is shadowed in front of two massive ribbons of green and pink light. The first ribbon shoot up straight into the sky to the left of the yurt while the other swirls closer to the horizon to the right of the image. The photo is framed by the silhouettes of spruce trees.

We got an #aurora alert tonight, but it's cloudy. So instead, I'm going through my photos from this time last week when the skies were alive. I won't be forgetting this night any time soon. #NorthernLights

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1 day ago

Thanks :) I was very much in love with the sky colours.

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Looking out over frozen Hudson Bay at a large area of open water that is sending mist up into the air, clouding everything around it.

An interesting view of Hudson Bay. This is a lead that opened up not too far out from the shore near Churchill, Manitoba. It expands and contracts with the winds and tides.

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1 day ago

What a gorgeous photo!

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2 days ago

Me too :)

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2 days ago

I can totally understand the impulse ☺️

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2 days ago

What an amazing bird!

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2 days ago

They are the borbs of mammals :)

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2 days ago

I was so excited to see them again :)

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A tiny little furry orb with little ears looks at the camera with its little beady black eyes. Its sitting on the edge of a patch of snow on a wooden deck covered with sunflower seed shells. A tiny little furry orb of reddish fur with little ears looks off to the right of the image with its little beady black eyes. Its sitting on the edge of a patch of snow on a wooden deck covered with sunflower seed shells. A tiny little furry orb of reddish fur with little ears looks off to the left of the image with its little beady black eyes. Its sitting on the edge of a patch of snow on a wooden deck covered with sunflower seed shells.

My little buddy was back this morning cleaning up the leftovers.
This little red backed vole is so adorable. #mammals 🌿

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2 days ago

I’m very sorry for laughing Raven 😆 I’m sure the little guy appreciated your nurturing. 😉

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2 days ago

Oh, Raven. I’m always around for your wildlife ID needs. 😉☺️

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2 days ago

I’m sure we can share. Send a few back. 😊

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3 days ago
Two bright ribbons of green light shoot out in a V behind the silhouetted spires of snow-covered spruce trees. Two bright ribbons of green light sweep across the night sky behind the silhouetted spires of snow-covered spruce trees.

A few more photos from last week's amazing #aurora show. #NorthernLights

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2 days ago

Thanks, Gwen 😊

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2 days ago

Thank you 😊

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A digital painting of a great-crested flycatcher. It's a robin-sized bird with a brown back and tail, yellow breast and belly and greyish-green head.

There's something about flycatchers that are challenging to draw, but I finally figured it out - Great Crested Flycatcher #birds #SciArt

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3 days ago

Thanks, Sam :) You made my day. 😂

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3 days ago

I actually had to do it for real once. Don't want to do it again.

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3 days ago

That's where all of my red-breasted nuthatches have gone! They've been weirdly gone all winter.

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3 days ago

Thanks for the heads up. :)

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3 days ago
Two bright ribbons of green light shoot out in a V behind the silhouetted spires of snow-covered spruce trees. Two bright ribbons of green light sweep across the night sky behind the silhouetted spires of snow-covered spruce trees.

A few more photos from last week's amazing #aurora show. #NorthernLights

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4 days ago

Thanks, Glen. It was such a fantastic night. I'm so glad my guests got to experience it.

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5 days ago
Three very bright ribbons of green light swirl in the night sky over a round yurt surrounded by a wooden deck. The silhouetted spires of spruce trees rise up around the snow-covered yurt and stand against the bright green lights.

Each night of our aurora tours in Churchill is spent in a different location. This yurt just inside the treeline is one of my favourite places. We had a spectacular show there the other night. #aurora #northernlights

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