David Fleming

Driver's license photo of Mr. Cardinal in his official red plumage. Thanks Parvis Forghani for sharing.

Green Heron, Aug 22, 2025 Grimsby, ON. Thanks to Herman Veenenaal for the pic.

Yes, it is. Many male birds dance for their partners ...NOT the other way around. I was in South Africa recently with my wife and we spotted some male and female ostriches together and one male had spread his wings and was swaying hypnotically in the wind. Fascinating behaviour!

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Our ginger female cat Simba. We thought she was a male when we picked her up as a tiny kitten in a ditch at the side of the road in Huron County Ontario. Nope, she's a female who is smart and she already knew her name so we kept it.

Nope!
I wish the Red Roses well, but I'm cheering for our Canadian women. They rock!
Should be a good game to watch.
Good luck!

Some pics of my wife and my trip to Nungwi Beach, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
The tides ebbed and flooded every morning and evening like clockwork.
I felt that our tourist dollars helped to alleviate poverty, promote socioeconomic development and establish trust. It was fun!!

Penguin dancing is an aggressive display, usually done by the male loon, to defend its territory or chicks from another loon. This display is extremely energy intensive, and the bird may do it repeatedly until the threat moves away. Loons often yodel (males only) and tremolo when penguin dancing.

Deformed BIF - Banded Iron Formation, interlayered with cherts, volcanoclastic rocks and shales.

Western Australia
Photo credits: Thomas Kapitany

Why are you feeling depressed Laura? Are you lonely?? Or is there something else??

You're in the middle Laura ...in the second pic?

Sorry Emjay ... couldn't resist. Ha ha!

Male Northern Cardinals feed female cardinals during courtship and when the female is incubating their eggs. This behavior is a way for the male to demonstrate his fitness to provide for his mate and their potential offspring while they are nesting together. Cardinals are monogamous birds.

Travertine are colorful formations of rock in Hot Springs State Park, Wyoming. They were created by the mineral-rich hot springs and are a type of limestone deposited by the precipitation of calcium carbonate. The locals call this one the "Green Eyed Monster." Neat!

The JWST has discovered a bizarre exoplanet named WASP-12B that orbits so close to its star that temps soar. Its heavy metals vaporize, rise, and escape into space. This planet isn't round like Earth. Instead, the immense gravitational pull from its star has stretched it into a football-like shape.

We rock heads up here in Canada love our Lake Superior agates. Here's a mitt full.
And Canadians still love rock hunting in Michigan. We're just not so crazy about coming across the border at this time. The Yooperlites in Leland can wait. ICE might deport us for illegally taking Yooperlites. Sheesh!

There is compelling evidence of a vast underground ocean beneath Mars' surface.
The water resides within fractures in igneous rocks, where geothermal heat prevent it from freezing. This environment may be similar to Earth's deep subsurface habitats, where microbial life thrives without sunlight

Male Rose-Breasted Grosbeak. May 2025. About 12 visits daily to the feeder. Isn't he handsome?!

Am HD image of Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars. But why is Phobos shaped in this form?

Image Credit: NASA/ESA

A female Eastern Towhee chillin' in Long Point Ontario. Thanks Mike Poole for sharing. This pic was taken on April 18, 2025.

The James Webb space telescope has found a planet called K2-18 that orbits a small red giant star 124 light yrs from Earth.
The planet shows evidence of dimethyl sulfide (DMS) and dimethyl disulfide (DMDS) in its atmosphere. These two compounds are only known to be produced by life.

About 15,000 years ago, the Great Lakes were a salt water inland sea created by retreating ice from the last ice age. Coral reefs grew in them like this fascinating chain coral fossil. It was found on the southern shores of Lake Superior. These rocks look especially amazing under a UV light.

Theia, a small Mars sized protoplanet, is hypothesized to have orbited our Sun on a collision course with Earth around 4.5 billion years ago. It collided with our early Earth in a huge fireball that lead to the formation of the Moon.

An eastern blue bird in Lambton County couldn't care less about Trump's tariffs. And Ontario's provincial flower, the Trillium, is blooming again.
Ain't she sweet?

Lake superior agate that has been polished with a tumbler and oil. It was found by Seth Trobec near Duluth Minnesota. An agate is an ornamental stone consisting of a hard variety of chalcedony, typically banded in appearance. Beautiful!

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Sometimes we all need a little distraction from the political negativity everywhere on social media. So, here is a colorful rock formation in Zhanjiajie, China where layers of sedimentary rock display vibrant hues. It represents millions of years in one neat pic.

No, but he has renamed it Donny Day because he fancies himself the direct descendent of Julius Caesar himself after whom the month of July is named. Ha ha! I enjoy your informative posts Ms Farrow.

I like your style EmJay so I've followed you.