The first of a projected series of atmospheric rivers hit Kitimat on the afternoon of September 21. To my surprise there was lively and heavy bird activity in my backyard, including more than a dozen dark-eyed juncos, five of the steller’s jays that live in the trees by my house, a couple of northern flickers, a female purple finch and a song sparrow.
A female purple finch lands on my back deck during an atmos
After a winter of mostly wet, overcast, low light, awful weather, spring has returned to Kitimat and Haisla. So a few images from the March 30, shorebird count by the Kitimat Valley Naturalists.
The first set of photographs for the 2025 Canadian federal election campaign. NDP candidate, incumbent, Taylor Bachrach launches his campaign office in Kitimat.
In honour of St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2025, a foggy and rainy day at the famous ancient Bronze Age Dun Aengus (Anglicized) fort on the Isle of Aran, County Galway, Ireland. I visited Dún Aonghasa (Irish) during a trip to Ireland in the spring of 1978. Ancestry says I am 16% Irish.
