A flare in the fog
September 24, 2024
The second atmospheric river hit Kitimat on September 24, with the town socked in all day. So here is the LNG Canada flare through the fog.
Category: rain
Stormy spider webs
September 21, 2024
The heavy rain of the atmospheric river on September 21 illuminates two large spider webs on my back deck. The way the light worked the webs were only visible from one specific angle.
August skies
August 28, 2024
August was a good month for sky shooting. We had a couple of nights when the sky was clear enuogh for shooting the aurora borealis or nothern lights as the sun is at high activity at the moment. These are all shot from my back deck, which is not an ideal location with city […]
Portrait of a raven
June 2, 2024
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 […]
Birding in an atmospheric river
January 30, 2024
I went out with local birders on Saturday January27 to do the monthly shorebird count. One of the many atmospheric rivers sweeping in from the Pacific Ocean meant heavy rain, fog and some wind. It certainly didn’t stop the birds nor the birders. There were at least 60 probably more common mergansers both at Wahtl […]
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.
A raven, the rain and some berries
November 4, 2018
The weather here in Kitimat on Saturday, November 3, 2018, was miserable, with heavy rain. I don’t often get ravens in my backyard but on Saturday morning, one landed in the mountain ash tree in my backyard to sample the berries. You can tell just how wet it was from the drips on the berries. […]