Archive For The “nature” Category
While out birding on January 27, 2024, I also took images of the surrounding landscape during the atmospheric river storm. Given the “atmosphere” I converted all to black and white.
A telephoto shot from MK Bay Marina showing old pilings and the Kitamaat Village gazebo. (Robin Rowland)
A wide shot of MK Bay looking toward Kitimat harbour. (Robin Rowland)
The Kitimat waterfront, during the atmospheric river, January 27, 2024. Ice from creeks and the river float on Douglas Channel. (Robin Rowland)
A boat heads out in a foggy and choppy Douglas Channel. (Robin Rowland)
MK Bay Marina. (Robin Rowland)
The forest near MK Bay Marina. (Robin Rowland)
Back home, the view from my front window showed almost zero visibility in the fog. Samsung Galaxy S23 image. (Robin Rowland)
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A view of Kitimat during an early morning power outage, Dec.26, 2023. (Robin Rowland)
It is interesting the kind of photographs that people like. Early on Dec. 26, Boxing Day, there was a power outage mostly in the Kildala neighborhood here in Kitimat, after a stormy, windy and rainy night,
People on social media were asking question, so I went to a window and used my Android phone to take a quick shot as an indicator,. Most of the Kildala neighborhood is dark, except the hospital to the right which, of course, has a generator and perhaps some other buildings in the mall.
The Rio Tinto aluminum smelter, which has its own power supply is lit up. But the LNG Canada site apepars dark. The big tower has no bright red aircraft warning lights. (See earlier moon shots for the bright red lights).
The power came back about a half hour after the photo was taken,
The photo was posted on both my personal Facebook page and the Kitimat awareness group page.
What surprised me that the photo got so many likes on personal page from friends across Canada and a good many likes on the awareness page, more than sometimes the more interesting landscape shots I have posed.
Taken with a Galaxy S23 with the raw enhanced app Expert Raw which is a free add on downloadable.
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A great blue heron at the Rio Tinto docks in Kitimat (Robin Rowland)
On December 16, 2023 Kitimat Valley Naturalists took part in the worldwide Christmas Bird Count, with special permission and guidance to view the natural areas of the Kitimat River estuary in both the RIo Tinto and LNG Canada industrial sites.
The weather was cool and overcast, but unlike earlier years no snow or heavy rain which allowed us to count the birds and get some great photographs.
Trumpeter swans at the Kitimat Rver Oxbow. (Robin Rowland)
Trumpeter swans hang out at the Kitimat River Oxbow, an area of the river which appeaers dark brown due to heavy iron content in the water.
Canada Geese overhead (Robin Rowland)
Canada Geese overhead (Robin Rowland)
Just as we arrived on site a flock Canada geese flew over head.
Buffleheads in the estuary (Robin Rowland)
A bufflehead. (Robin Rowland)
A bufflehead on a take off run. (Robin Rowland)
American coot feeding (Robin Rowland)
American coot (Robin Rowland)
A bufflehead and other ducks in the estuary. (Robin Rowland)
Two great blue herons watch from the dock. (Robin Rowland)
Three of the at least seven great blue herons we saw that afternoon., (Robin Rowland)
This great blue heron may have spotted something. (Robin Rowland)
A great blue heron flies along the river. (Robin Rowland)
A colony (flock) of gulls (at least 85 and probably more) line up along a dock. (Robin Rowland)
A male mallard. (Robin Rowland)
More mallards (Robin Rowland)
A pair of female hooded mergansers, one about to take off. (Robin Rowland)
Male and female hooded mergansgers and an American coot. (Robin Rowland)
Hooded mergansers. (Robin Rowland)
Male and female hooded mergansers. (Robin Rowland)
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An American robin eats a mountain ash berry in my backyard. (Robin Rowland)
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.
Dark-eyed junco, also enjoying the mountain ash berries among fall colours in early morning light. (Robin Rowland)
Three green winged teals in flight at the Kitamaat Village waterfront. (Robin Rowland)
A Great Blue Heron foraging at the Kitamaat Village waterfront. (Robin Rowland)
A Great Blue Heron foraging at the Kitamaat Village waterfront. (Robin Rowland)
A Great Blue Heron flies over Kitimat harbour. (Robin Rowland)
Ducks in a row. Widgeons and Mallards on the Kitamaat Village waterfront. (Robin Rowland)
Widgeons and Mallards on the Kitamaat Village waterfront. (Robin Rowland)
A murder of crows over Kitamaat harbour. (Robin Rowland)
A bald eagle over Kitimat harbour. (Robin Rowland)
Herring gull in a rainy Wahtl Creek. (Robin Rowland)
A northern flicker on the wires overlooking my backyard. (Robin Rowland)
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The moon, October 28. (Robin Rowland)
The weather was cold and clear in Kitimat at the end of October, which give me three days of opportunity to photograph the full Hunter’s Moon that was also close to the planet Jupiter.
The close shots of the Moon and Jupiter were shot with my Sony Alpha 7II and a Sigma 100-499mm lens (not a telescope). Wider shots with a couple of other Sony cameras.
Moon rise October 27
The moon rises over my front yard, with Jupiter the small white dot to the left.
Jupiter through a telephoto lens. (Robin Rowland)
A closer image of Jupiter (Robin Rowland)
Moonrise October 28
The moon rising over Albatross Ave, Kitimat, with Jupiter a faint dot to the lower left. (Robin Rowland)
The moon and Jupiter exposed so the details of the moon are visible. Jupiter is faint dot to the lower centre left. (Robin Rowland)
The moon and Jupiter exposed so that Jupiter is more visible (Robin Rowland)
Moonset October 29
Jupiter is about to set in the mountains overlooking Kitimat. (Robin Rowland)
The moon over the mountains later that morning. (Robin Rowland)
The Hunter’s Moon about to set. (Robin Rowland)
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American Kestrel (falco sparverius)
I’m starting to go through my archives looking for bird photographs that I took casually before I became a more enthusiastic bird photographer. These are from my visit to the Caribbean island of Montserrat where I went in March 2007 to shoot the volcano.
American Kestrel (falco sparverius)
Gray kingbird (tyrannus dominicenis)
Gray kingbird (tyrannus dominicenis)
Juvenile cattle egret (bubulcus ibis)
Zenaida Dove (zenaida aurita)
A chicken.
A couple of roosters.
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A selection of some of my bird photographs so far for the summer of 2023
Steller’s jay on my backdeck on a sunny afternoon, August 24, 2023 (Robin Rowland)
On August 24, there was a three hour power failure in Kitimat. With not much else to do and because it was a sunny and warm afternoon I sat out on my back deck. One of the steller’s jays that lives in the cedar trees beside my deck decided to join me.
On August 25, a flock of cedar waxwings, most of them juveniles, descended on the trees in my backyard to sample the berries.
Cedar waxwings sampling the berries in my backyard. (Robin Rowland)
Canada geese over Minette Bay,
Canada geese crossing Kitimat’s Minette Bay, photographed from Minette Bay West Park, August 18. (Robin Rowland)
On August 2, I drove to the old Eurocan pulp mill site, where there is an osprey nest, and then drove a few kilometres on where luckily at Kitimat harbour I captured one of the ospreys hunting.
Osprey nest, old Eurocan site, Kitimat, August 2, 2023 (Robin Rowland)
Osprey hunting over Kitmat harbour, August 2, 2023 (Robin Rowland)
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