Cathy has been diligently attending the conference gathering
useful data and making global people contacts for her ongoing advocacy work on
making Saskatoon a more livable city by volunteering about 70 hours a week on
various projects.
Meanwhile I have been doing the important work of
wandering Nantes with my camera.
I spent many hours in Les Jardin des plantes de
Nantes, a famous garden in the centre of Nantes populated by plants
from all over the world. In 1726 Louis 15th ordered all ship’s captains to
bring back to France seeds from the colonies and foreign lands. They obliged
and this amazing garden was created.
Being somewhat of an expert on frequenting les toilettes I
can report that virtually every facility in all the countries we visited was
considerably cleaner than a toilet in almost any prairie town. They may not all smell like Chanel N°5 but the French
in particular add this colorful touch to the toilet paper.
Many of you will be surprised to see a bus load of bird
pictures coming up I’m sure.
This Eurasian Wren was singing up a storm just above my head. Wren's have a pretty large presence for such a small bird.
Click here for a YouTube Video
The waterfowl are unusually tame and afford many chances for
close ups. Many of the ducks and geese sport a wrist band visible in some pictures.
These birds are mostly new to me and could even be hybrids so looking up
descriptions may not have yielded accurate results.
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| Note leg band on this Bar-headed goose. |
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| Eurasian Teal. |
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| Mandarin Ducks (Male) |
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| Barnacle goose. |
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| Red-crested Pochard. |
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| Only this ones mother knows for sure who it is. |
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| Tufted duck. |
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| Northern Pintail (same as on the prairies) |
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| Unknown goose. |
For anyone interested you can see more pictures of this garden by clicking here:
Goodbye and thanks for following along.
Trent
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