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 Donald Trump arbitrarily and foolishly signed an Executive Order changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, an idea that is ridiculous. The name predates both the United States and Canada, Huron Indigenous people’s word “oniatarí:io,” which means “lake of shining waters.” Here a few of the photographs of LAKE ONTARIO from my […]
The Haisla Nation and residents of Kitmat gathered at Riverlodge, Sunday, June 21, 2026, to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day.
It was a beautiful warm sunny summer afternoon on Thursday June 18, 2026. I took a break to sit out on my back deck. I just happened to glimpse at a female rufous hummingbird sitting in the cedar tree beside the deck. She has visited my feeder as few days before in a nasty rainstorm. […]
