Category: Kitamaat Village

Student dancers celebrate Haisla Guatlap Days

As part of the Haisla Nation’s solstice Guatlap Days at Kitamaat Village, Friday, June 21, the audience saw a performance from the student dancers and drummers from the ‘Na Aksa Gyilak’yoo School in Kisumkalum. June 21 was National Indigenous Peoples Day. The Kitsumkalum or Gitsuklaum are part of the Ts’myen (Tsimshian) Nation.  

“Get off my perch,” crow tells bald eagle

A crow mobs a bald eagle at the mouth of Wahtl Creek, MK Bay marina, Kitimat, BC. I was out shooting for fun along the Kitimat/Kitamaat Village waterfront when I captured the story of a fiesty crow that demanded a bald eagle get off an old log in the Wahtl Creek estuary. The crow apparently […]

Shore birds in Kitimat; Gulls in feeding frenzy

Shots from the November shore bird survey. A Western grebe off the Maggie Point gazebo. (Robin Rowland) Common mergansers off Maggie Point. (Robin Rowland) We spotted gulls in a feeding frenzy off the Kitamaat Village soccer field. (Robin Rowland) Another shot of the feeding frenzy. (Robin Rowland) Detail of the feeding frenzy in the above […]

A song sparrow in sea grass

Shortly after I shot the crows chasing the juvenile bald eagle, on the drive home, I stopped at an old dock. I clearly could hear a bird, probably a sparrow, but wasn’t sure where it was. It was low tide and then I spotted the bird in a small “cave” created in the sea grass […]

A murder of crows mob a juvenile bald eagle

There were more crows than usual Sunday morning at the Kitamaat Village waterfront.  Crows perching on old driftwood roots….   …or in the air along the shore line. Suddenly all the crows took to the air….that murder of crows (or as one of the other birders said “it looks like two murders”). It was soon […]