Rondeau Ric

Bay-breasted warbler, May 15, 2018, Rondeau Provincial Park, Ontario Canada. One of my favourite warblers. Setophaga castanea Bay-breasted Warblers are voracious predators of spruce budworms. One study concluded that they consumed over 13,000 budworms per hectare (about 2.5 acres) in just 41 days. source - Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

I went flying today and learned two things. Don't do aerial photography during hot humid weather - you get haze, and use a polarizing filter which I didn't have. Overall I was satisfied and I had a blast. This is Rondeau Bay with Erieau, Ontario in the foreground. We dock our pontoon boat there. To the right is Rondeau Provincial Park where we have a cottage. In the distance is Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes in North America. This is looking to the north-east. More photos later. I ran off over a 1,000 shots. Thank goodness for digital.

Take a closer look. I have legs. I am a five lined skink, and I am Ontario's only lizard. Plestiodon fasciatus The five-lined skink is a smooth, slender lizard that can grow to 21 centimetres in length, but most individuals are much smaller. If a predator catches a skink by the tail, it will break off and begin to thrash about. The moving tail distracts the predator while the lizard escapes. source - Ontario Nature.