Tag: Bird

Humpback Aurora, eagles, seagulls and sealions

On our return journey on May 29, 2024, on Prince Rupert Adventure Tours,  heading back to Rupert on Chatham Sound between the large Tugwell Island and the smaller Carr Island we spooted the blow of a humpback whale. I submitted a photograph of the humpback to  the Happy Whale identification site and the whale was […]

Portrait of a raven

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 […]

The kingfisher and the fish

The belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) is often hard to photograph. The bird may perch long enough to catch a couple of shots, then it dives into the water to catch a fish, or flies off to another location to watch for prey. During the monthly shore bird count in Kitimat and Haisla, one kingfisher remained […]

Storm over the harbour

Sunday April 21, 2024, the date for the monthly shore bird count was a cold, wet, stormy spring morning at MK Bay and Haisla.  

The fight to save Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge

I was shocked to read in the New York Times this week in Margret Renkl’s column that the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia, is in danger of being destroyed by, of all things, a strip mine. She reports that there is wide spread opposition to the mine from across the political spectrum in generally […]

First robin of spring 2024

The first American robin of spring 2024., a male, appeared in my backyard on Sunday, March 24..