Colin Levings 🇨🇦

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Retired/active fisheries scientist-oceanographer - interested in estuaries&salmonids, benthos, fjords, nautical history & bunch other things. Author Salmonids in Estuaries http://bit.ly/2FrfJoy. Sailed on Western Flyer 22 y after Ricketts. colinlevings.ca

Evidence of a warm winter 2025-2026-perennial Fuschia that we accidentally left hanging outside last autumn is doing very well this summer. Maybe this is more common than I think in our area. Anyway humming birds are loving it. Pender Harbour BC
Percentages in habitat type images denote composition of recaptured adults based on their release habitat as smolts
Waiting for an occupant - crows nest in the Fraser River estuary BC. Spotted in a January 2026 walk.
Thinking back to late summer (August) - moon jellyfish drifting under marine riparian - Douglas fir bough reflection - overhanging the high tide zone. Pender Harbour BC
Lower Fraser River riparian in autumn
Chromatophores were working overtime on this spawned out chum salmon from the Chehalis River. BC. Image from my grandson Erik Levings.
There is nothing as soothing as a tranquil stream flowing through the rain forest. In this case, Anderson Creek near Madeira Park, BC
A fine set of bracket fungi seen on an old oak tree in Chaldecott Park, Vancouver
Octopus in a ling cod mouth
Purple loosestrife from Wiki Grout, Jeff A., Colin D. Levings, and John S. Richardson. "Decomposition rates of purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) and Lyngbyei’s sedge (Carex lyngbyei) in the Fraser River Estuary." Estuaries 20, no. 1 (1997): 96-102. https://doi.org/10.2307/1352723
Homathko River estuary was at the maximum distance re fuel from the CCG base in Campbell River. Survey was for geomorph and marsh studies. 1980 pic
Black tail deer - 2 spike buck
Collembola - springtails are frequent food items in juvenile salmon caught at high tide under marine riparian vegetation
Horizontal profile of the lower tree branches shows the high tide mark. Jervis Inlet BC
Squamish estuary -sampling amphipods in the sedge marsh skirt
Amphipod specific papers
cloud sponge from Wiki
Off Yakutat Gulf of Alaska