In early spring, there isn't much to eat for the hungry butterflies that have been fortunate enough to survive the long, harsh Canadian winter. An almost invisible trickle of sugar-rich sap oozing through the bark of a maple tree attracted this colourful trio.

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This Mourning Cloak (Camberwell Beauty) was imbibing the sweet sap oozing from a wound in the bark of a small Manitoba Maple tree. It has come through the long, cold Canadian winter in remarkably good condition.

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A magnificent male Blue-eyed Darner hovers over a small pond on Canada's west coast.

Tags:   Blue-eyed Darner Rhionaeschna multicolor Aeshnidae Dragonfly Odonata Anisoptera Nearctic Vancouver Island Little River Pond Comox British Columbia Canada

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This handsome member of the Grebe family is known as the Slavonian Grebe in Europe.

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Several pairs of Tundra Swans were mixed in with thousands of Snow Geese on their annual southward fall migration.

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