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Grey Wagtail!
#photo #photography #outdoors #autumn #autumn2025 #fall #fall2025 #lake #reflection #wetland #bird #birds #birdphotography #wagtail #greywagtail

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This is a landscape format photo taken at a wetland on a November day with a mix of blue sky and clouds. Trees that have lost their leaves can be seen in the background. The photo is framed on both sides with tall "common reeds" that are often found in wetland areas. A small portion of the pond is visible, but the water level was quite low at the time.

Moorhens!
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Black-headed Gull!
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Moorhens!
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And yet there is colour!

#reed #schilf #wetland #landscape #clouds #landschaft #schwarzweiß #schwarzweißphotographie #alb #rain #grass

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#濕地 #杭州 #wetland #35mm #filmphotography #argentique

Having lived near the Minas Basin of the Bay of Fundy in Sipekne'katik #Novascotia and now beside a tidal #mudflat this video was fascinating. I find these natural sea/landscapes endlessly changing and dynamic.This type of research and restoration is essential to renewing the health of our #ecosystems Great to see this work being done in #scotland #wetland #saltmarsh https://youtu.be/BniwJrxJhcw

Photo of tidal marsh as the water is receding. Previously submerged green plants grow out of the mud and water. Caption says "And when the tide recedes, all of this brings in the birds." Blue sky and green hills on the far side of the firth.

Shorebirds gathering on the mud at the edges of clumps of sea weeds. Receding waters and green hills in the background. Some of the green clumps of weeds are still floating on the blue/grey waters.

Surface Water Transitions 1984–2022 - A Global Dataset at Annual Resolution
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-06013-5 <-- shared paper
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#water #hydrology #hydrospatial #globe #global #remotesensing #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #GIS #spatial #mapping #watertransition #river #stream #lake #coast #coastal #landsat #timeseries #WCD #WTTD #OTSU #NDWI #landuse #landcover #NLDI #soil #vegetation #forest #urban #industrial #advance #recession #wetland #engineered #agriculture #floodplain #deforestration #reservior #delta #model #modeling #surfacewater #change #seasonal #climate #annual #historic #recenthistory #waterresources #watermanagement #watersecurity

Pipe down below, we are snoozing!

#WildlifeWednesday #owls #BirdsOfMastodon #birds #birding #outdoors #wetland

A photo of 2 fat owls smuggled on a tree, one is awake & shows squinty eyes of disdain. These are tropical screech owls in a national park in Colombia. Nov 2025

Travis Wetland is a large urban wetland nature reserve. That means it's surrounded by people and their gardens on all sides, so it gets a constant inflow of pests (and pet cats) and weeds.

While working at the wetland yesterday, we found (and pulled out) the first records from the wetland of evergreen buckthorn and raphiolepis. Both are emergent woody weeds that are shade tolerant and make bird dispersed fleshy fruits. They're both still planted in gardens.

If you live near some wild native habitat, keep an eye out for new exotic plants establishing.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/328034270

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/328034276

#weeds #wetland #nz #Christchurch #BiologicalInvasions #iNaturalistNZ

One of the sites at Travis Wetland where we set up our invertebrate sampling yesterday was in the new southern woods.

I helped with a planting day for this back in 2014, when it was still a wet field. Now, it feels like a real forest, with a canopy well above my head and lots of wild seedlings scattered about underneath. It's amazing how quickly trees grow when the ground is always wet.

Here are two photos of the same part of the wetland in September 2014, when trees were being planted, and now. It's like magic!

Many of the trees planted here were sourced from Pūtaringamotu, Riccarton Bush, the old growth fragment of kahikatea swamp forest in central Christchurch. Pūtaringamotu is a much drier site than it was when the city was founded so it's fantastic to see a new swamp forest emerging.

(Now we just need to rein in our carbon emissions to stop the impending sea level rise that will otherwise submerge all these sites in a few centuries.)

#UrbanEcology #ForestRestoration #wetland #nz #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #nature

A photo I took in September 2014 of a community planting day at Travis Wetland. There are lots of people with spades digging holes and planting baby trees.

My full-res photo is on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/15374259456/

A photo of the same site yesterday (24 November 2025), which now feels like a real forest. The canopy is 4–5 metres above my head and there is a lot of wild undergrowth happening.

My full-resolution version of this is on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/54945075549/

I spent yesterday at Travis Wetland, Ōruapaeroa, which is a large wetland restoration site in eastern Ōtautahi-Christchurch, NZ. One of my MSc students, Tommy, is embarking on an invertebrate survey of the wetland, and we spent the day setting up Malaise traps (to catching flying insects) and pitfall traps (to catch invertebrates on the ground).

Tommy is repeating a survey done back in 1995–1996, when the wetland (then mostly wet farmland) was being purchased from a housing developer by the City Council.

We expect a lot to have changed (hopefully mostly for the better) as the vegetation of the wetland is much more diverse and native than it was.

Stay tuned over the summer for insect discoveries.

#entomology #wetland #restoration #InsectSurvey #insects #nz #LincolnUniversityNZ #research

A photo of Tommy (left) and Max (right) digging in one of a series of pitfall traps to sample ground dwelling invertebrates. Tommy is doing his Lincoln University Masters research this summer repeating a 1995–1996 invertebrate survey of Travis Wetland, to see how the invertebrate community has changed.

My full-res photo is on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/54943934477/

Tommy (left) is doing his Lincoln University Masters research this summer repeating a 1995–1996 invertebrate survey of Travis Wetland, to see how the invertebrate community has changed. Here Tommy and Max are putting in one of a series of Malaise traps to sample flying invertebrates. Malaise traps look like open sided tents. Insects fly in, hit the middle barrier mesh, then fly up to get caught in a cup at the top.

My full-res photo is on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/54945126160

A photo of Tommy, smiling, as he wades through the wetland towards one of our sampling sites, where we set up a variety of invertebrate traps.

My full-res photo is on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/54943934457/

A photo of Lincoln University summer scholar Max going the extra muddy mile helping set up an invertebrate monitoring project at Travis Wetland. The mud is up to his waste, and he's smiling.

My full-res photo is on Flickr at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/54945126155/

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This photo is of a small pond in a wetland area. The sky is blue with an number of white clouds in view. A tree stump, approximately three feet high, is seen in the middle of the pond. As this photo was taken in mid-November, most of the leaves have already fallen from the surrounding trees. Some ducks can be seen swimming in the water, and "sunning" while sitting on rocks that are above the water's surface. Cattails can be seen in the foreground of the photo at the "near edge" of the pond.

🎨🌾 Los Angeles-based artist Doug Rosenberg assembled #rocks into a pop-up #wetland in the channelized L.A. River, hoping to show that environmental #restoration doesn’t require waiting for official permission.

His installation attracted volunteers, native #wildlife, and debate about balancing ecological restoration with flood management in an urban waterway.

👉 https://www.npr.org/2025/11/17/nx-s1-5589228/garden-environment-restoration-ecology-la-river-guerrilla

#wetlands #ecology #art #activism #science #urbanplanning

"some Wednesdays are Monday all week long" -- red-eared turtle with a completely mud-stained moss-overgrown shell

#Wildlife #Turtle #Wetland #Animal #Funny #Nature #Mud #Photograph

A turtle with a beautiful green and yellow face with a red "ear" is out of the water on some floating reeds to reveal that the poor boo's shell is completely covered in a thick layer of gray mud. There is even some green algae on the mud-stained shell. This is a Red-eared Slider. Photo by Peachfront. November 2025. Southeast Louisiana.

Aerial view of a salt marsh in Lower East Chezzetcook on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. #photography #aerial #aerialphotography #drone #saltmarsh #watercourse #marsh #swamp #wetland #bog #chezzetcook #novascotia #EastCoastKin

Aerial view of a wetland with a watercourse weaving its way through.

American White Pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) at sunrise at Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge in Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, United States on October 21, 2025

Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/2025Oct21_Salt_Plains/2025oct21_pelican_IMG_4678c.html

#birds #pelican #SaltPlainsNWR #wildlife #wildlifephotography #wetland #Oklahoma #photography