Early summer is often a great time to photograph birds in the Kitimat Valley.
Category: birds
A mink on a log. How I got the shot (plus some bald eagles)
February 14, 2022
It was a cool, over cast Saturday afternoon when I accompanied birders from the Kitimat Valley Naturalists on the monthly shorebird count. Just after we arrived at our first stop, the Kitamaat Village seawall and beach in Haisla traditional territory, I (and the others) saw something out of the corner of my eye, a flash […]
Canada Geese overhead
November 6, 2021
Bald eagle at Minette Bay
October 13, 2021
Look closely and you will see the white head of a bald eagle perched in a tree at MK Bay, taken from MK Bay West Park.
Great blue heron on Kitimat waterfront
October 11, 2021
A great blue heron stalks the Kitimat waterfront at MK Bay in a stormy fall rain squall.
Portraits of Northwestern Crows
October 11, 2021
The weather in Kitimat has been awful during most of the fall, cold, windy, rainy, foggy and generally miserable. Not unexpected in a La Nina year. I went down to Kitamaat Village for the monthly bird count in a rain squall. So the visibility was pretty bad. As I was about to leave, a half […]
Common Mergansers
September 15, 2021