Spring 2025 Photo Gallery by larose forest photos at pbase.com

Spring 2025

Yellow lady's slipper orchids (Cypripedium parviflorum)	Delta-spotted spiketail (Zoraena diastatops)	Today's Walk
Black locust flowers (Robinia pseudoacacia)	Pigeon	Pelargonium
Goatsbeard (Tragopogon)	Geranium	"Smiley"
Tamarack (Larix laricina)	Mer Bleue bog	Cottongrass (Eriophorum vaginatum)
Brown elfin butterfly	Tartarian honeysuckle (Lonicera tatarica)	Dame's rocket (Hesperis matronalis)
Red-winged blackbird, female, with nesting material	Tulip	Yellow warbler
Four-spotted skimmer (Libellula quadrimaculata)	Baltimore oriole, female	Yellow warbler
Grendel	Song sparrow	Plum tree
Tracks of beetle larvae	Eastern pine elfin butterfly (Callophrys niphon)	Cleo in the woods
Yesterday's walk	American redstart, male	Pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica)
Rough-winged swallow	Beaked hazel (Corylus cornuta)	Larose Forest
Royal fern (Osmunda regalis)	Six-spotted tiger beetle (Cicindela sexguttata)	Spring woods
Northern azure butterflies (Celastrina lucia)	White-breasted nuthatch	Northern azure on Trout lily
Henry's elfin butterfly (Callophrys henrici)	Trout lily (Erythronium americanum)	Blue spotted salamander
Squirrel-proof (?) bird feeder	Tree swallows at nest box	Red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa)
Jumping spider (Eris)	Fairy shrimp (Eubranchipus) wiith mosquito larva	Red maple flowers
White-throated sparrow	Happy Earth Day! 2025	Purple finches
Red-winged blackbird	Aconite (Eranthis hyemalis)	Hooded merganser, male
Grendel	Hibiscus	Today's Walk
Winter returns	Today's Walk	Flowers for a grey day
Red elderberry buds (Sambucus racemosa)	Amaryllis	Lucy and the flowers
Canada goose	Today's Walk	Mallards
Common greenshields lichen (Flavoparmelia caperata)	Red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus)	Spring advances
Today's Walk	Orthotrichaceae?	Cleo
Today's walk	Canada geese	Ice breaking on the Rideau
Where the Rideau meets the Ottawa	Spring break-up on the Rideau River	Icebreaker
Spring break-up