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. […]
May has been a very busy month, so I am posting the best or most interesting bird photos for the month in one go. I was on my back, having an afternoon cup of tea, when this male yellow-rumpled warbler flew out of the cedar tree and onto the power line. On May 26, shooting […]
For the November bird count, Sunday, November 16, 2025, the weather was not cooperating. Cool, wet with a blowing wind and mixture of rain and sleet. Visibility was poor but in Haisla, at the Kitamaat Village waterfront, a small murder of crows stopped nearby. Veteran birders in British Columbia would call the smaller bird a […]
Three file photos of blue jays in my old backyard in the Pocket in Toronto, two in tree spring 2008, one on the fence May 2010, in honour of the baseball Blue Jays in the World Series.
A pair of Northern Flickers were very active in my backyard tree in Kitimat BC yesterday on Oct 22, despite heavy overcast (so not so great light) and rain varying from light to heavy. They blended in with the red autumn leaves when seen by the naked eye rather than a 500mm lens.
