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August Sturgeon Super Moon over Kitimat

August Sturgeon Super Moon over Kitimat

Super moon over Kitimat BC at 5:15 am, August 2, 2023. Most of the lights are from the LNG Canada construction project. (Robin Rowland)

Black and white version of the same super moon shot (Robin Rowland)

August sturgeon super moon over Kitimat, 5:13 a.m. August 2, 2023. (Robin Rowland)

The supermoon over Kitimat and the LNG project earlier at 4:30 a.m. (Robin Rowland)

Waxing 97 per cent super moon rising over Kitimat, July 31 (Robin Rowland)

Sunset over Kitimat and Douglas Channel, July 31, 2023 (Robin Rowland)

August 2, 2023 Robin Rowland
Alpha 55, black and white, Douglas Channel, Kitimat, landscape, moon, night, Photography, Sony RX10iiiBlack-and-white , British Columbia , clouds , construction , Douglas Channel , Kitimat , LNG , LNG Canada , Moon , Sturgeon moon , sunset , super moon

Waning summer super moon over Kitimat

July summer supermoon begining to wane over Kitimat and Douglas Channel. (Robin Rowland)

Waning super moon over LNG Canada site (Robin Rowland)

Waning summer supermoon (Robin Rowland)

July 5, 2023 Robin Rowland
Alpha 55, Alpha 77, Canada, Douglas Channel, Kitimat, landscape, LNG, moon, natureBritish Columbia , Douglas Channel , forest , Kitimat , Moon , mountain , ocean

Canada Geese overhead

A flock of Canada Geese fly over my backyard. (Robin Rowland)

November 6, 2021 Robin Rowland
Alpha 55, autumn, birds, Kitimat, nature, PhotographyCanada geese , geese

Birds in a blizzard

Birds in a blizzard

A varied thrush confronts a steller’s jay at my feeder during the blizzard of January 3, 2020. (Robin Rowland)

The decade of the 2020s came in like a mountain lion on January 3, 2020 here in Kitimat, with (up until now) 75 centimetres or 30 inches of snow.
I came inside after digging out the first time (I would dig out twice more today) and sat down for lunch only to see at least a dozen juncos at my feeder in the midst of the wind and blowing snow. I have an older camera on the table so I can photograph any birds that might come to the feeder. A varied thrush flew down, scattering the juncos. The varied thrush was too big for the feeder (or at least it thought it was) so it waited while the juncos gorged themselves and picked up and seeds that dropped from the feeder.

About an hour later a steller’s jay joined the group. The thrush and the steller’s jay seemed to get along at first but later this was a confrontation between the two while the juncos watched. The steller’s jay, being a smarter bird (like all corvids) did find a away to get at the feeder.

Juncos congregate at my feeder in the midst of the blizzard. (Robin Rowland)

A junco waits its turn at the feeder. (Robin Rowland)

The varied thrush perches just below the feeder. (Robin Rowland)

The patient varied thrush waits for the juncos to drop some seeds. (Robin Rowland)

The varied thrush lands under the feeder beside the steller’s jay (Robin Rowland)

The varied thrush looks up at the feeder (the juncos had temporarily departed) as the steller’s jay watches. (Robin Rowland)

A shot of the steller’s jay. (Robin Rowland)

The steller’s jay finds a way to get at the seeds in the feeder. (Robin Rowland)

Most of the juncos and the varied thrush were still there a few hours later as it began to get dark.

January 3, 2020 Robin Rowland
Alpha 55, birds, Kitimat, Photography, snow, steller's jayBird , Bird feeder , Bird photography , birds , Kitimat , snow , steller's jay

Fall feeding frenzy in my backyard

Fall feeding frenzy in my backyard

I looked out into my back garden on the morning of October 2, 2019 to see more flocks of birds flying around in an early October downpour. Far more birds than I expected. It is bear season and there are more black bears around town than usual, which means my feeders are currently empty. No matter, the birds were concentrating on a mountain ash tree in the backyard.

In less than a hour I visited by a raven, a varied thrush, a northern flicker, steller jays, juncos and too many robins to count. I managed to get good photographs of the robins, the raven, the northern flicker and the varied thrush. I had no luck capturing the juncos and steller jays. I didn’t see any sparrows.

A robin grabs a mountain ash berry. (Robin Rowland)

I used two cameras for this shoot. I normally keep an older Sony Alpha 55 with a Tamron 70-300 lens on my dining room table all the time to shoot birds in the garden. Once I realized that the feeding was going to continue for a while I grabbed my Sony RX10-iii which has a 24 to 600 lens.

The raven (Robin Rowland)

American robin at the top of the mountain ash (Robin Rowland)

A robin grabs a berry from the top of the mountain ash. (Robin Rowland)

A pair of robins at the top of the mountain ash (Robin Rowland)

Varied thrush. (Robin Rowland)

A robin perches in the mountain ash. (Robin Rowland)

This morning the garden was quiet, so it looks like that for some reason, the gathering only happened yesterday,

October 3, 2019 Robin Rowland
Alpha 55, garden, nature, Photoblog, Photography, raven, robinAmerican robin , Bird photography , birds , fall , mountain ash , Northern Flicker , rain , raven , Robin , varied thrush

A raven, the rain and some berries

The weather here in Kitimat on Saturday, November 3, 2018, was miserable, with heavy rain. I don’t often get ravens in my backyard but on Saturday morning, one landed in the mountain ash tree in my backyard to sample the berries. You can tell just how wet it was from the drips on the berries.

The raven gulps down two mountain ash berries.

Sony Alpha 55 (the camera I always keep by my backdeck) with a Tamron 70- 300.

November 4, 2018 Robin Rowland
Alpha 55, birds, fall, nature, Photography, rain, raptorBird , Bird photography , birds , British Columbia , Kitimat , rain , raven , storm

A maple leaf on ice

A maple leaf in ice in yard in Kitimat, BC, January 23, 2017. (Robin Rowland)

January 24, 2017 Robin Rowland
Alpha 55, BC, black and white, Kitimat, winterBlack-and-white , British Columbia , ice , Kitimat , leaf , maple leaf
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