365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
My Favourite Marsh-ians
Day 275: By now, my readers should know what to expect when I go kayaking on Lake St. Clair. Sundews are a given! I was afraid I might have missed their flowering period, but was happy to see that many of them were still in bloom. They also appear to be enjoying a wide variety of bugs in their diet, everything from flies to spiders, mosquitoes, wasps and the occasional beetle. Mycoheterotrophs and rare orchids aside, Drosera rotundifolia was one of my "bucket list" plants. Finding them in the wild was arguably the finest moment in my history as a naturalist. I still get excited about visiting them!
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