On May 30, as I was driving back from Prince Rupert, it was raining. I usually stop at the Telegraph Creek rest stop and that day was no different. I got out of the car and there was a raven perched on the Skeena River side of the shelter. It was if the raven was […]
I was on the Prince Rupert Adventure Tours grizzly tour on Wednesday, May 29, when on the return journey, just as we were leaving the Khutzeymateen Inlet Conservancy we spotted some unusual whales. At first the crew that they were orcas, since the dorsal fins are similar. But was we got closer (while staying within […]
The belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) is often hard to photograph. The bird may perch long enough to catch a couple of shots, then it dives into the water to catch a fish, or flies off to another location to watch for prey. During the monthly shore bird count in Kitimat and Haisla, one kingfisher remained […]
The Kitimat Museum and Archives opened the Haisla Artists Indigenous Art Exhibition with a ceremony at the City Centre Mall in Kitimat on the evening of Friday, May 10, 2024. It is the first group show that features Haisla artists (there have been indvidual shows in the past). The opening at the mall featured photographs […]
I put out a hummingbird feeder on my backdeck each spring. I do get hummingbirds but for some reason they are often few and far between at my house. Today, April 26, a hummingbird arrived just 10 minutes after I put up the feeder.
Sunday April 21, 2024, the date for the monthly shore bird count was a cold, wet, stormy spring morning at MK Bay and Haisla.
On April 6, I took a spring hike in Kitimat River Provincial Park Kitimat River Park protects two parcels of small but highly productive old-growth Sitka spruce and red cedar forest on the natural floodplain and fluvial terraces of the Kitimat River. It also protects grizzly bear habitat and culturally modified trees The hike was […]