Jon Wallace🇨🇦
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Jon Wallace🇨🇦
@dunrobinontario.bsky.social
Nature ● trees ● wildlife ● photography
building stuff ● science ● music
history ● art ● searching for the next podcast I should have started years ago


🌎Dunrobin, Ontario, Canada
In the spirit of the deep freeze Ottawa is heading into...

This was last January

I loved how every evening for 15 or 20 minutes, the ice would take on whatever colour the sunset did #ArtAdventCalendar #Ottawa #Canada
December 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
That's nearly enough for some squeaky snow tmrw morning😅🇨🇦

Super early in the season to be dropping into the ACTUAL cold!

I've been jumping outside to fill the birdfeeders in a tee-shirt every morning up until now😅

#Ottawa #Ottweather #Canada
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Day 4

This was early spring when the leaves were beginning to return.

The previous year I removed a few trees that were crowding this Black Cherry tree

It was shot with the phone at 15mm, but in manual raw mode so I could balance the sky vs tree contrast in post #ArtAdventCalendar
December 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Plausible US reporter question:

"Mr. President, can you tell the American people the reason for the skin discolouration on your right hand that you've kept bandaged, makeup'd, and hidden under the desk?"

Instead, corp media:

"Derp, derp, ummm poopy poop constitutional norms poop?"
December 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
They're kind of the oddballs of the dog world

They're not really pack social except during child rearing

And they have that high-twitch muscle makeup like cats! Red foxes have been clocked at 72km/h for short bursts! They catch snowshoe hares ffs! I've seen it! And they can jump like a mf #Mammals
December 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Update...

Sobeys didn't have Chili🤷‍♂️

Instead I bought a handful of euro beers 😅
I'm kinda craving some Chili!

I don't want to make it, that takes allll day

I may have to go buy some... veggie or meat, doesn't matter... both good!
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December 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I love the studying face of this forest raised Raccoon

"oh, weird... A human! I wonder what those things eat. It doesn't seem to be eating from my hazelnut plants below"

#Mammals #ArtAdventCalendar #Wildlifephotography #Canada #SonyAlpha
December 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I'm kinda craving some Chili!

I don't want to make it, that takes allll day

I may have to go buy some... veggie or meat, doesn't matter... both good!
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December 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Big yawn after sleeping the day away in the wild Coreopsis meadow by the water
#ArtAdventCalendar
December 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
A Great Crested Flycatcher in the tops of the forest canopy on one of those hot humid mist rain weeks midsummer where eastern Ontario Canada nearly emulates tropical rainforest climate

Day 2
#ArtAdventCalendar
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I'll join in the sharing of my favourite 2025 shots this month under the hashtag #ArtAdventCalendar

Sony 𝛂7r5
1250iso|900mm|f6.3|1/800s
December 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Both of us freeze in place to listen to the giant ravens way above in the white pines—they're so cool and weird (the ravens)

"Guuurrrraawwwkkk"
"Tee-cue, tee-cue"
"Brreeeeeeppp"
*deep gurgle sound*

#Birds #Ontario #Canada #Wildlife #SonyAlpha
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
😅
Alexa, play music!
November 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
👀 *click*

🍿📺
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Great podcast line:

"This night is still vivid in my mind. The kind of dark where the edges of the world disappear"

It triggers all those half memories of things you've seen, or almost seen, at parties, or in the wilderness, or whatever, where you know THAT wasn't possible... or was it?
November 23, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Looks colder than it is—Canadian sweater weather
-1°c

You get that double sun off the ice reflection... you could tan... or go blind😅

Dunrobin, On
#ShareYourWeather #Ottawa #Canada #Ontario
November 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I hear a Great Horned owl outside!

12:09am -1c

It might be across the lake in the thicker pines, hard to tell out from inside

Cool though

Photography goals...

#Birds #Ontario
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Too busy to care about me... He gave a quick glance when he swam within 10 feet, then continued on towards the sleeping lodge across the large pond👀 #Mammals #Ontario #Canada #Nature #SonyAlpha
November 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
My morning alarm clock was 4 Trumpeter Swans, 2 groups of 2, gliding around in the back pond randomly thunder honking at nothing👀

Can't really go outside, or I'll scare them

They make geese look tiny, eh😅
#Birds
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
It took till now for the birds to find the newly reactivated feeders!

Blue Jays found it first... and they're so noisy about it that the chickadees followed them👀
I finally put all the birdfeeders back up after my willing summer with a bear 🐻

I'm excited to get all the birds back! I miss all the chickadees and woodpeckers who've stayed deep in my wood for months! And the squirrels who are who knows where

It's so quiet here in winter without them #Birds
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I finally put all the birdfeeders back up after my willing summer with a bear 🐻

I'm excited to get all the birds back! I miss all the chickadees and woodpeckers who've stayed deep in my wood for months! And the squirrels who are who knows where

It's so quiet here in winter without them #Birds
November 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My early winter ❄️🌲🙂

**Every year, you have to relearn how to not overexpose the snow on sunny days😂
#Winter #Canada #Ottawa
November 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Snowstorm soon in the greater Ottawa Gatineau area👀❄️
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I stayed up way too late last night to focus on understanding this supreme court hearing😅

Half of it is over my head
#Tariffs
November 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
My Dad asked me to tell him specifically what I wanted for Christmas...

My choice 🧐😅 #BillsMafia
November 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM