Iain Leitch Photography

I went on my first camping trip this year to Bonnechere Provincial Park. I just stayed for one night but it was still quite enjoyable. The campsite that I was at backed onto an oxbow lake, and had plenty of mushrooms around the edge of the campsite as well. The first photo in this post is of one of those very mushrooms. I saw this beautiful yellow mushroom at the edge of the campsite and knew I needed to get a photo of it. Lucky for me the mushroom was framed quite nicely by two little saplings. The following two photos are of tree bark. Normally I don't post photos like this but because I got a tree ID book for my birthday, there is going to be a few more tree photos posted. The first of these two is a Eastern Hemlock, while the second photo is of a Yellow Birch. The fourth photo in this post is of a bale (group) of turtles. These particular turtles are Midland Painted Turtles which are fairly common in Eastern Ontario. These turtles were just resting on a fallen tree in an oxbow

Last week I went down to my great aunt's cottage for my annual trip. The cottage is located in the Kawartha region of Ontario. I took quite a few photos at the cottage but not a lot of them ended up post-worthy. The first photo in this post is my favourite one from the trip. I was walking along the access road when I saw this set of mushrooms growing out from the moss. This photo just screams West coast rainforest vibes to me even though its from Southern Ontario. The second photo in this post is of a juvenile sapsucker. This is a type of woodpecker that in full adult form looks kind of red. But because I am guessing this was his first year alive he hasn't reached full maturity yet.  The third photo is of my favourite bird, the Black-Capped Chickadee. There was a whole flock of them that kept on passing by, so I recently managed to get a good photo of one.  On the lake that the cottage is on there is a family of Common Loons that have been there for as long as I can remember. T