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Photos from near Richer on 2005may05:
Yellow Whitlow-grass=Draba sp: flowers Yellow Whitlow-grass=Draba sp: foliage Early blue violet=Viola adunca: Sunloving sedge=Carex pensylvanica: Three-flowered avens: Three-flowered avens:

Photos from ForestryRd-29 on 2005may05:
Pussy toes: Bumblebee: on crocus Crocus=Anemone patens: with bud and bee-fly Bee-fly: on crocus Bee-fly: on crocus Bee-fly: on crocus Bee-fly: on crocus Bee-fly: on crocus Bee-fly: on crocus Bee-fly: on crocus

Photos from ManitobaForestryAssoc near Hadashville on 2005may05:
Bloodroot: Bloodroot:

Photos from Hadashville and Braintree area on 2005may05:
Grey jay=Whiskeyjack: Grey jay=Whiskeyjack: in flight Grey jay=Whiskeyjack: Grey jay=Whiskeyjack: Arbutus: Arbutus: ?unidentified: cocoons? ?unidentified: cocoons? Fiery milk mushroom=Lactarius sp: Stiff clubmoss: with spore-clusters Indian pipe: pods Arbutus: Arbutus: Common horsetail: fertile stems Sandhill crane: Sandhill crane: Sandhill crane: Blue-winged teal: male Blue-winged teal: female+male Barn swallow: Barn swallow:

Photos from Ames yard on 2005may06:
Round-lobed hepatica=Hepatica nobilis obtusa:

Photos from SeineRiver in Winnipeg on 2005may13:
me: on a stump on the left-bank of the Seine me: on a stump on the left-bank of the Seine closer

Photos from LittleMountainPark in Winnipeg on 2005may13:
American coot: American coot: