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A mink on a log. How I got the shot (plus some bald eagles)

A mink (neogale vison) on a driftwood log at the Kitamaat Village beach, February 12, 2022 (Robin Rowland)

It was a cool, over cast Saturday afternoon when I accompanied birders from the Kitimat Valley Naturalists on the monthly shorebird count.

Just after we arrived at our first stop, the Kitamaat Village seawall and beach in Haisla traditional territory, I (and the others) saw something out of the corner of my eye, a flash of black with a tail scampering along a driftwood log on the beach.  A few minutes later the animal appeared again, coming up from another log. So while the birders put up their scopes and scanned the shoreline, I walked up on a pile of dirt and kept watch for the mammal.

I kept watch.  It was dashing along the logs and under others.  Had the camera on high speed burst mode and missed it about twenty or so times.

Then the mink decided to pause (or to do me a favour) and stopped on one log, looked up and I captured this portrait.  It looked around and then dashed into a hollow log and disappeared.

A mink (neogale vison) on a driftwood log at the Kitamaat Village beach, February 12, 2022 (Robin Rowland)

Cloudy day.  Sony RX10M3, Iso Auto shooting at 2000 ASA. 1/1000 at F4.

A lot of other usual shots, even at low tide the beach is far off so it’s often hard to get good shots.

Then I spotted a bald eagle high over Douglas Channel.

A bald eagle flies over Douglas Channel. (Robin Rowland)

 

Then I got lucky again, the eagle flew right toward the beach, coming in for a landing.

 

Bald eagle coming in for a landing at Kitamaat Village beach. (Robin Rowland)

 

And then perched on a driftwood stump.

 

A bald eagle perches on a driftwood stump in late February afternoon sun at Kitamaat Village, Feb. 12, 2022. (Robin Rowland)

 

A bald eagle perches on a stump in Kitamaat Village, (Robin Rowland

 

 

February 14, 2022 Robin Rowland
birds, Douglas Channel, Kitamaat Village, Kitimat, landscape, mink, Photography, seascape, Sony RX10iii, winterbald eagle , Bird , Bird photography , birds , British Columbia , Douglas Channel , Kitamaat Village , Kitimat , mink , ocean

Bald eagle at Minette Bay

Look closely and you will see the white head of a bald eagle perched in a tree at MK Bay, taken from MK Bay West Park.

October 13, 2021 Robin Rowland
autumn, BC, birds, black and white, eagle, Kitimat, Photoblogbald eagle , Bird , Bird photography , birds , Black-and-white , British Columbia , clouds , Douglas Channel , Kitimat , Minette Bay

Portraits of Northwestern Crows

The weather in Kitimat has been awful during most of the fall, cold, windy, rainy, foggy and generally miserable. Not unexpected in a La Nina year.
I went down to Kitamaat Village for the monthly bird count in a rain squall. So the visibility was pretty bad. As I was about to leave, a half dozen northwestern crows landed right beside me, in the pouring rain and stayed long enough for me to shoot their portraits.

October 11, 2021 Robin Rowland
BC, birds, crow, Douglas Channel, Kitamaat Village, Kitimat, nature, Photoblog, Sony RX10iiiBird , Bird photography , birds , British Columbia , crow , Douglas Channel , Kitamaat Village , Kitimat , rain , storm , Weather

People of the Snow Truth and Reconciliation in Kitimat

Members of the Haisla Nation and people of Kitimat braved an Environment Canada storm warning with heavy rain and wind on September 30, 2021 to mark The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Haisla elder Marilyn Furlan opened the proceedings with a prayer. (Robin Rowland)

 

Most participants wore orange to mark the other name, Orange Shirt Day. It marks the time an indigenous girl had an orange shirt taken away in a residential school. (Robin Rowland)

Marking Truth and Reconciliation in a rain storm. (Robin Rowland)

Sunny Stewart-Pollard helped organize the reconciliation event hosted by volunteers from the Haisla Nation and members of the Kitimat community. (Robin Rowland)

 

Barb Campbell watches the event. (Robin Rowland)

The tables with decorations and gifts represent all the holidays that children in residential schools missed. (Robin Rowland)

 

 

A boy waves a Truth and Reconciliation flag. (Robin Rowland)

Watching in the rain. Kitimat Counsellor Terry Marleau (second from right) and Mayor Phil Germuth (far right) (Robin Rowland)

Shelley Irene Bolton drums as she leads the Haisla Braid drummers and dancers. (Robin Rowland)

The sun did come out briefly for the Haisla Braid dancers and drummers. (Robin Rowland)

Three flocks of geese flew over the ceremony, the first and largest flock are snow geese, followed by a small group of Canada geese and then more snow geese.(Robin Rowland)

 

Geese fly over the ceremony. (Robin Rowland)

Musician and artist Arthur Renwick closed off the event with his own songs. (Robin Rowland)

 

 

October 1, 2021 Robin Rowland
autumn, BC, Canada, ceremony, Haisla Nation, Photoblog, Photography, Photojournalism, Reconciliation, Sony RX10iiiBritish Columbia , ceremony , dance , drumming , First Nations , geese , Haisla Nation , holiday , Kitamaat Village , Kitimat , orange shirt , rain , storm

Common Mergansers

Common mergansers at MK Bay, Kitimat, BC, September 2021

September 15, 2021 Robin Rowland
BC, birds, Douglas Channel, eastuary, Kitimat, Sony RX10iiiBird , Bird photography , birds , British Columbia , common merganser , Douglas Channel , duck , Kitimat , merganser , ocean

Fall colors on Thanksgiving

Fall colours reflected on Minette Bay on still waters at low tide. (Robin Rowland)

October 14, 2019 Robin Rowland
BC, fall, forest, Kitimat, Photoblog, Sony RX10iiiautumn , British Columbia , fall colors , forest , Kitimat , Minette Bay , reflection

Birds in the nearby forest

Birds in the nearby forest

I usually take a morning walk through a forest park near my house. We had the first major frost this morning, and so the resident birds, steller’s jays, American robins and juncos were very active.

A steller jay in an old tree. (Robin Rowland)

A steller jay  explores through the cover of grass. (Robin Rowland)

A steller jay peeks through the cover of grass. (Robin Rowland)

An American robin in a forest mountain ash tree. (Robin Rowland)

An American robin in a forest mountain ash tree. (Robin Rowland)

An Oregon junco hides in the underbrush. (Robin Rowland)

October 9, 2019 Robin Rowland
birds, Kitimat, Photography, robin, Sony RX10iii, steller's jayAmerican robin , Bird , Bird photography , birds , British Columbia , forest , Kitimat , photoblog , steller's jay
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