Starting a new topic on Flora and Fauna as suggested.  Birds can vary depending on the season.  I love to go up to canoe country just as the leaves are budding out and you can see hundreds of warblers in the tree tops, who are normally, hidden in the underbrush.  We go late season and you can tell by this photo, the loons are changing to fall phase.

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This fall I was watching large flocks in "V's" flying very high. Hard to ID for sure but I thought they could be Trumpeter Swans, not Canada Geese. Their honking just sounded a bit different and the wing beat a bit slower.

Martha's always flipping fern leaves over to examine their spore patterns. It's of how they "propagate"  big word 
But doesn't mean I know much more. Martha's into the plants. I'm better at birds, less so trees.

I like the texture and composition of the photo.  Nice pose.

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I'd love to know what this bug is not to mention it's purpose.
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I agree DD; Cicadellidae; a leafhopper is what we call them.  Their purpose: to suck sap out of plants, which probably doesn't do the plant any good.  Their size is usually less than 10 mm.

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