Haisla Nation celebrates National Indigenous Peoples Day
June 21, 2026
The Haisla Nation and residents of Kitmat gathered at Riverlodge, Sunday, June 21, 2026, to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples Day.
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My afternoon with a hummingbird
June 19, 2026
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. […]
In one month the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Fifty years ago, Canada gave a birthday gift to the United States, a glossy coffee table book of high quality photographs that was at the time the “longest undefended border” in the world. It was called Between Friends/Entre Amis. […]
Venus and Jupiter in Kitmat’s summery sky
June 2, 2026
If you look west over Kitimat’s mountains, with the skies clear about an hour after the summery sunset, you will see the planets Venus and Jupiter in the sky. Venus is closer and brighter and seen to the right, lower on the horizon. Jupiter, farther away of course, and not as bright, can be seen […]
The “moon” of Sauron
May 31, 2026
For the past year people in Kitimat have called the LNG Canada flare “the eye of Sauron” after how it was depicted in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movie The Two Towers On May 31, 2026, I woke up at 3:34 am in time to catch the May blue “micro” full moon right over […]
Birds in May
May 29, 2026
May has been a very busy month, so I am posting the best or most interesting bird photos for the month in one go. I was on my back, having an afternoon cup of tea, when this male yellow-rumpled warbler flew out of the cedar tree and onto the power line. On May 26, shooting […]
Farewell to the Snowbirds
May 19, 2026
Farewell (for now) to the CF Snowbirds The Department of National Defence said Tuesday, May 19, the Snowbirds aerial demonstration team from 431 Squadron based in Moose Jaw, will be grounded after the 2026 flying season. The Snowbirds currently fly the aging T-114 Tutor jets, which have been part of the Royal Canadian Air Force […]