Wintersweet of the Woods

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Lurking in the northwoods~! 🌿 Naturalist 🐁 Rat lover🦌Caribou/Reindeer 🍄Fungi Lover♈Powerwolf Awoo!🐺Taken, mated to my darling doe @liliablossom.bsky.social ✨🦌🌸🍓🍬 Photo Gallery @winterlilycapture.bsky.social NO AI! PICS BY ME (Icon by wofe, banner by me)

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Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· 2d

Hummingbird moth! Side view- you can see right through their glass like wings. Sipping on my favorite flower- marsh milkweed. The flower smells like maple syrup on pancakes! #photography #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #hummingbirdmoth #moth

A bright hummingbird moth sipping on march milkweed on the prairie! Love these guys!

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· 2d

Smore loading! 🏕️

A marshmallow being roasted over a campfire! The wood went up easily. Normally the fire is more argumentative than this. It was oddly perfect conditions this weekend.

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· 2d

Made a friend on the trail! 🐇 #photography #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography

A cottontail rabbit staying very still as I walked up the trail. They very reluctantly only hopped away once I got very close.

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· 2d

Finally got some rain! The fungi are nomming up this rotten stump. 🍄 #photography #nature #fungifriends #tamron #sony

White mushrooms and mold feast on a rotten stump. Glad to finally get some rain!

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· 19d

The perfect close up of curious sandhill cranes and he blinks! XD 📸 🌿 #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography

A closeup of one of a pair of sandhill cranes that wandered up to me. This one was keeping an eye on the surroundings while their mate inhaled the bugs in the grass. The perfect focus and then the birb blinks! XD

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· 22d

Twelve spotted skimmer perched beautifully near the springs 🌿 #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #dragonfly

A twelve spotted skimmer dragonfly perching in the sun. They zoomed around, eating the mosquitoes we attracted. I love the pretty white and black markings on the wings.

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· 22d

Turkey vulture! Pretty soaring birb was flying low on the breeze. 🌿 #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #vulture

Soaring turkey vulture from underneath. Good healthy specimen. Flying low on the breeze.

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jul 8

Brown wasp mantidfly! A mimic species with the bravado of both lol. This mantis kept turning to keep me on centerline- good kung fu! 🌿 #wildlife #nature #photography #mantis

A brown wasp mantidfly perching on a leaf, keeping me in view as I fail to get a closer side shot. Beautiful bug!

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jul 8

Weevil on milkweed! 🌿 Gotta love a man with fancy shoes! #nature #photography #weevil

A weevil leaning over the edge of a milkweed plant.

A weevil on milkweed. Their curved snoot is for drilling into seeds. They are so cute!

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jul 7

Osprey turning in the setting sun! Eagles cackling nearby, but this one was able to snatch some fish without being tackled by the very territorial 'murica missiles. #wildlilfe #wildlifephotography

Side view of an osprey- a fishing hawk- in the setting sun. This one was not as fast as the eagles nearby, but was able to out maneuver them when they made a pass for the osprey.

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jul 7

Sundews! Bog carnivorous plants only a few inches tall. Those little glimmery droplets are glue to catch passing insects. 🌿 #photography #nature #bog #carnivorousplants

tiny sundew plants in soft bog sphagnum moss. Little glue drops glitter on the plant hairs to catch passing insects. They shone like little gems in the sun.

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jul 6

These white jelly fungus blobs were blooming all over! 🍄 Didn't get to look as much as I would have liked to, but the mosquitoes were BAD XD #Fungifriends #mushroom

White jelly fungus blooming on a fallen tree. It was popping up in clusters all over. The vampires chased me out of the woods before I could explore as much as I wanted to.

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jul 6

Hummingbird moth on milkweed! It's one of the sphinx moths, some of our largest! Chonky friend with beautiful colors 🌿 #moth #wildlifephotography

Bright humming bird moth sipping from milkweed blossoms. This chonky friend is visible during the day!

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jul 3

Foxglove! A pretty and deadly addition to any witch's garden 🌿

Foxglove flower. Beautiful and deadly! Used in medications for AFIB, but will give you AFIB if mess with it! XD Purple trumpet flowers with pretty darker purple and white speckles inside.

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jul 3

New mushrooms coming up out of the leaf litter! Might go out again this afternoon to see if the rain raised any more mushies! 🍄 🌿 #fungifriends

two white/cream mushrooms growing out of the leaf litter. Cannot identify yet as the fruiting bodies are not yet fully formed.

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jul 3

Redwing blackbird yelling at me for being in the wetlands! 🌿 #Photography

Redwing blackbird perching on a cattail, loudly yelling at me for being in their swamp. I was looking for frogs, not expecting a yelling.

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jul 3

Saw a spiderweb glowing in the setting sun of the forest. 🕷️ Had to get a quick pic! XD 🌿 #photography

Spiderweb gleaming silver in the setting sun of the forest. No I did not almost walk face first into it thank you. (Totes did, I was snoot down looking for fungi lol)

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jul 1

Sunrise on a northwoods lake 🌄 It was like yay the sun 🌞 then hissing like vampires and fleeing back to bed once the rays went over the trees. 🌲 #photography

Sunrise on a northwoods lake. The water is a calm mirror, reflecting the forested shoreline perfectly in the warm brightening light. Not pictured are the loons I was trying and failing to find and eagles squeaking. The freedom chickens were very active as they had a nest nearby.

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jul 1

Tree frog napping in the ferns 🌿 🐸 #wildlifephotography #frog

Green tree frog napping in ferns. So cozy and soft in the northwoods morning.

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jun 30

Tried to get a gill shot from under this mushroom. It's wayyy harder now with a proper camera lol. 🍄 🌿 #fungifriends

Gilled mushroom in the lawn of moss and grass. Getting gill shots from underneath is now a challenge with a proper camera lol

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jun 30

Chonky baby woodchuck! Going to town on the clover 🍀 so cute! #wildlifephotography

Baby woodchuck looking at you suspiciously. How dare you interrupt their clover snack. You monster

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jun 29

Pitcher plants in soft sphagnum moss in the bog! Carnivorous plants in a floating forest, the moss undulated beneath our feet. 🌿 🌲🦌 #bog #pitcherplants #carnivorousplants

Red reins stand out on carnivorous pitcher plants coming out of the soft sphagnum moss carpet floor of the bog. The floating forest floor undulated beneath our feet. It's certainly a sensation XD

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jun 29

Teensy fairy cap in the moss 🌿 🍄 #fungifriends #mushroom #moss

Teensy fairy cap in the moss/grass/clover lawn by the cabin.

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jun 25

Spot the shrew! Saw the leaves of the forest floor moving and yup. This lil nugget is fiercely hunting for worms and bugs. Popped up to say hi for just a sec before diving back down.

shrew looking up at you through the leaf litter they are hunting bugs in. Not the best focus on the picture but they would not stay still for more than a half second.

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jun 25

Coral fungi! 🍄 🌿 #Fungifriends 📸

Coral fungi rising in clumps from a rotting fallen tree. Glad to get some growth finally from the rain!

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jun 24

Found these two looking for shellfish! Little cutie pies. 🌿 #wildlifephotography #raccoon

Two young raccoons feel with their lil criminal hands for shellfish on the shoreline

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jun 24

Orange mycena! 🍊 🍄 🌿 #fungifriends

Clumps of bright orange mycena mushrooms on a downed tree

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jun 22

Poison ivy growing with it's cure- jewelweed/touch me not. Both are very important to know if you enjoy the outdoors! 🌿

Poison ivy and jewelweed aka touch me not growing together. Jewelweed is the pancea of skin conditions. Mash it into a paste and apply- good for stings, rashes, nettles, poison ivy, bites. Not good for bleeding or burns.

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jun 19

Fairy caps reaching up! Looks like fairy sombreros with the curls on the caps! 🍄 #fungifriends 🌿

Fairy caps in the mossy forest floor. The caps curl with age

Wintersweet of the Woods@wintersweetbou· Jun 19

Crab spider! 🕷️ These guys change colors to match the flowers they hunt on. Takes about 3 days. #spider #wildlifephotography