It was a beautiful warm sunny summer afternoon on Thursday June 18, 2026. I took a break to sit out on my back deck. I just happened to glimpse at a female rufous hummingbird sitting in the cedar tree beside the deck. She has visited my feeder as few days before in a nasty rainstorm. […]
Hundreds showed up at City Centre Mall in Kitimat, Dec. 7, 2025 for the Light Up Kitimat Christmas ceremony. That was despite a Yellow Heavy Rain warning. The rain did pour down as Santa arrived in a Kitimat Fire and Rescue truck.
For the November bird count, Sunday, November 16, 2025, the weather was not cooperating. Cool, wet with a blowing wind and mixture of rain and sleet. Visibility was poor but in Haisla, at the Kitamaat Village waterfront, a small murder of crows stopped nearby. Veteran birders in British Columbia would call the smaller bird a […]
A pair of Northern Flickers were very active in my backyard tree in Kitimat BC yesterday on Oct 22, despite heavy overcast (so not so great light) and rain varying from light to heavy. They blended in with the red autumn leaves when seen by the naked eye rather than a 500mm lens.
The Saskatoon based band The Sheepdogs, headlined the evenung performance in Kitimat on Saturday, August 16, 2025, part of LNG Canada’s Big Thank You Party. Kitimat’s own rock band The Rats, opened the evening performance. The party, a year in the planning, celebrated the completion of what could be just the first phase of the […]
Fireweed across the street in heavy rain, August 5, 2025. One of the test shots for my new Sony 400-800mm E mount lens which arrived this afternoon.