This beauty was on the Mission Creek Greenway in Kelowna, B.C.
In a cavity in a huge living larch tree with a lightning-burned core. On a steep wooded slope near the Columbia River
One tiny adult and one young fluffy owlet in a tall cedar in a small protected Regional District nature conservancy, in the South-Central Interior of British Columbia, in Canada. There was a family with three owlets in almost the same location two years ago.
Full moneyshot of Sporophylls here oh gahd yes
What are these nodules on the root of this baby alder tree?
Are the dark red shoots the result of some particular infections, or just dying shoots? Along trails among stabilized sand dunes at the coast.
At 9000ft on Bonanza Peak