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A few locals have asked for a way to learn of updates to this site. My response, this page, posts recent images with the latest at the top. A mouseover enlarges the image, a click brings up the page upon which it is discussed.
A male digger wasp on a flower.
Smoke from a distant forest fire traces the undulations of mountain waves.
A mud dauber wasp is caught in flight.
Mountain goats in Kokanee Glacier Park.
A rare western bumble bee sips from the vilified spotted knapweed.
A sand wasp.
A
deer fly lays its eggs.
A female pale snaketail dragonfly emerges from the nymph stage.
Busk's swimming pool, in Kokanee Creek Park, is a whispering gallery.
The yellow salsify is an uncommon wildflower.
The climbing nightshade is a naturalized wildflower.
Its ancestors followed bison; this juvenile cowbird followed a lawnmower.
A rare local orchid: the giant helleborine.
A rare local black bear: a Kootenay Spirit Bear.
A barn swallow presents a mayfly to its chick.
Lacking chlorophyl, the indian pipe is plant of the sunless forest floor.
A male moose in the forest.
A mule deer with velvet antlers.
A male whitetail dragonfly perches on a rock.
A mother flicker responds to its chick.
Blue–eyed grass.
A common loon at dawn.
Another wild orchid: the yellow lady’s slipper.
The mountain lady's slipper is a wild orchid.
The striped coralroot is a wild orchid.
A soldier fly visits some yarrow.
A pale swallowtail butterfly sips nectar from a flower.
A male red-naped sapsucker samples its wells in a mountain ash.
The eggs of the townsend's solitaire are laid in a cavity in a stream bank.
The golden paper wasp is one of four local social wasp species.
A rarely seen local cicada, the Platypedia putnami.