Showing posts with label Large Yellow Lady`s Slipper. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 3, 2013

Wildflowers And Turkeys

Last June, after my Churchill trip, I spent a day driving around the woods and marshes east of Winnipeg.  I love marshes and fens. 


 The Blue Flag Irises (Iris versicolor) were blooming (irises are my favourite garden flower) 

  
There are bugs on these flowers, wonder what they are.


 A Large Yellow Lady`s Slipper  (Cypripedium pubescens var. pubescens).  Another wild flower I am always delighted to find.


Some Yellow Pond-lily (Nuphar variegatum) pads with a flower bud


Two Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) toms....who were displaying and putting on a bit of a performance, until we got close.  I never have the `right` lens on my DSLR.


Oh well, it is always fun to see these big, rather ugly-yet-handsome birds.