Bald eagle flies over the Dala-Kildala estuary, Douglas Channel, BC, June 2009. (Robin Rowland)

A beaver swims across Clearwater Lake, near Kitimat, BC. July 7, 2012. (Robin Rowland)

A trumpeter swan flies across the Lake Ontario shore, Brighton, Ontario, Feb. 3, 2010. (Robin Rowland)

A monarch butterly on a rose in a Toronto garden, July 30, 2010. (Robin Rowland)

Sea gulls fly past the moon as the sun sets over Kitimat and Douglas Channel, Sept. 21 2012. (Robin Rowland)

A Stellar Jay fledgling surveys the world, Aug 1 2011. (Robin Rowland)

A fledgling stellar jay on my back deck, Kitimat, BC, Aug. 1, 2011 (Robin Rowland)

A wolf cub looks out of the bush near Kitimat, BC, during a snowstorm, Oct. 28, 2012. (Robin Rowland)

An alligator is almost hidden by the still water of Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia, April 1, 2006. (Robin Rowland)

A swallow chases a crow at sunset, Mill Cove, Nova Scotia, July 31, 2006. (Robin Rowland)

Lunch time at my bird feeder, Kitimat, BC, July 31, 2011. (Robin Rowland)

A spider wraps its prey in silk in a back garden web in my garden on Boultbee Ave. , Toronto, Aug. 8, 2010. (Robin Rowland)

A Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) a wetlands-loving warbler, sticks its head above the marsh grass in the mid-morning at the "duck pond" wetlands area, Houston, BC, May 7, 2011.. (Robin Rowland)

A harbour seal blends in with the waves at Maggie Point, Kitimat, BC, March 13, 2012. (Robin Rowland)

A pair of bald eagles on the shores of the Kildala Arm, Douglas Channel, BC, June 20, 2009. (Robin Rowland)

Bald eagle on a small island at the mouth of the Gilttoyees estuary, Douglas Channel, British Columbia, June 22, 2009. (Robin Rowland)

Tundra swan in the Kitimat River Estuary during the Christmas bird count Dec 17 2011 (Robin Rowland)