Views of the Kitimat River estuary
December 19, 2016
Some more views of the Kitimat River estuary that I took during the Christmas bird count.
Category: wetland
Christmas bird count (and more) Kitimat 2015
December 20, 2015
A juvenile bald eagle surveys the Kitimat River from a log on a sandbar. (Robin Rowland) Once again this year I joined the Kitimat Christmas Bird Count, helping out the Kitimat Valley Naturalists. Here are some of the best shots from that day, Wednesday December 16. 2015. Gulls huddle together on the shore of MK […]
Early fall light on the ponds of the Kitimat Lower Dyke Road
September 13, 2015
Fall is coming early to Kitimat….or so it appears. We’ve just come through about three weeks of cold, wet and windy weather. Some trees are already turning to gold. In the early afternoon sun along the Kitimat River Lower Dyke Road, the glorious green is still dominant. Wind blown green leaves on a pond alongside […]
Impressions of a rewilded Kitimat
June 12, 2015
My home, Kitimat, BC has had a taste of “rewilding.” District employees were on strike from February 28, 2015 until today, June 12, which meant the grass in the parks, verges and byways has been growing wild since the spring thaw. The grass, blowing in the wind, creates beautiful, impressionistic patterns….and have become (until the […]
Christmas bird count in the Kitimat estuary
December 17, 2014
A great blue heron sits on some debris in Kitimat harbour, during my annual visit to the estuary for the Christmas bird count, Dec. 14, 2014. (Robin Rowland). There was more late afternoon light than last year . On the other hand, while my birdwatching colleagues did list lots of species around the area, the […]
Birds at Christmastime in Kitimat
December 21, 2012
A Great Blue Heron perches on a tree overlooking the Kitimat River during the Christmas Bird Count, December 15, 2012. The bird count photo op wasn’t as good this year as it was last year. It was just as overcast with low late December light, but this time it was high tide with wind gusts […]
Clearwater Lakes Trail photo walk and workshop pix
July 8, 2012
On Saturday, July 7, 2012, Kitimat landscape photographer Doug Keech taught a photoworkshop, called Photoecllipse 2012, along with Prince Rupert photographer Pam Mullins (Pam’s Wild Images) and myself. At the end of the day instructors and students went on a photo walk along the Clearwater Lakes Trail off Onion Lake on Highway 37. There was heavy overcast and the […]