October birds in Kitimat
November 3, 2023
This October was a great month to shoot birds in Kitimat, not only in my backyard, but on the ocean at Kitamaat Village and MK Bay Marina.
Category: Douglas Channel
A blue moon in August
September 2, 2023
August 2023’s super blue moon was full on August 31, but in Kitimat the sky was heavily overcast with rain up until the moon rise that evening when the moon was 99.9% warning Early on the morning of September 1, the sky was partly cloudy and the dawn allowed me to photograph the moon over […]
August Sturgeon Super Moon over Kitimat
August 2, 2023
Waning summer super moon over Kitimat
July 5, 2023
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 […]
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 […]