Category: birds

Spring birds at the Kitimat waterfront

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.                

Birds in a storm

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, […]

Humpback Aurora, eagles, seagulls and sealions

On our return journey on May 29, 2024, on Prince Rupert Adventure Tours,  heading back to Rupert on Chatham Sound between the large Tugwell Island and the smaller Carr Island we spooted the blow of a humpback whale. I submitted a photograph of the humpback to  the Happy Whale identification site and the whale was […]

Portrait of a raven

On May 30, as I was driving back from Prince Rupert, it was raining.  I usually stop at the Telegraph Creek rest stop and that day was no different.  I got out of the car and there was a raven perched on the Skeena River side of the shelter.  It was if the raven was […]