Godspeed!, originally uploaded by Gavatron. This Eastern Wood Pewee decided that the elm tree behind my apartment building was a good place to refuel on its way to South America.
Tasty sh*t, originally uploaded by Gavatron. So, I’m back from my spring fling as the director of the Camp Arowhon Outdoor Centre. What, you may ask, does this have to do with ants eating the left-overs of some animal’s digestive tract? Well, on the surface, not much other than I took the photo while at […]
OK, let me do a quick re-cap. Last week? Boston for the AAG. Week before that? Austin for Leesa’s project. Up next? Two weeks at Rondeau Provincial Park, collecting data for my dissertation. I would have liked a bit more time between Boston and Rondeau, but no dice. So I’ve been spending this week getting […]
¿ Que pasa?, originally uploaded by Gavatron. We spent our last day in Lima at the Lima Zoo. Generally speaking, I don’t like visiting zoos, but I was curious to see what a zoo in Peru would look like, how the animals were kept and if there was any great difference between the hemispheres. Beginning […]
New Years Tradition, originally uploaded by Gavatron. We started to notice in Tumbes that people were selling papier-mâché heads. Lots of ’em. And we didn’t know why. Then the heads started to show up on stuffed bodies, like you can see here. What we guessed was these dummies had something to do New Years–and we […]
Coitus interruptus, originally uploaded by Gavatron. Love was (literally) in the air this weekend–a female grey squirrel was in heat and was getting a lot of attention from the boys in the neighbourhood. She (the grey one here) wasn’t too sure about the whole thing and spent a great deal of time avoiding her suitors […]
Washin’ the undies, originally uploaded by Gavatron. I brought three pairs of underwear on the trip. There. I said it. I wore and washed the three amigos throughout the trip. Heather continues to bring this up like its some point of conversation when we discuss the trip with friends–along the lines of "Can you believe […]
Red-tail Roost, originally uploaded by Gavatron. Offered as an unusual observation: sixteen Red-tailed Hawks roosting (roosting in the sense that they were together, not in the overnight sense: the photo was taken at 11 in the morning) together in two trees. More Red-tails were flying in and out. There were a whole whack of American […]
Amazonia LCBO, originally uploaded by Gavatron. Freddy, one of the local guides that accompanied us, summarized the wealth of the gentleman behind the counter when he told me that his family “own 143 hectares.” This gentleman’s family , again from Freddy, was a “pioneer family” in the region and consequently has done well for themselves. […]
The RadioShack Armatron, originally uploaded by Gavatron. I found a discarded Armatron while walking the dog last week. Likley something that all 30-year-old boys oogled over as a kid. Back when RadioShack was cool. Back when there was RadioShack. Man, can you believe I bought shareware on floppy disks from that place? Thats when a […]