Christmas Bird Count 2024 Kitimat estuary
December 16, 2024
My best shots from the 2024 Christmas Bird Count in the Kitimat River estuary.
Tag: Douglas Channel
Kitimat sunset December 11
December 12, 2024
September skies
September 13, 2024
Kitmat BC’s official motto is “A Marvel of Nature and Industry.” Even so I don’t get much of a chance to take a photograph that illustrates that idea. September 9 did give me an opporunity. A beautiful early fall night. I first stepped out, the rising 31.1% waxing ccrescent moon was over Douglas Channel, along […]
New electric tug Haisea Wamis arrives in Kitimat
July 29, 2024
The first of three new style electric tugboats, the Haisea Wamis, arrived in Kitimat, BC, on the traditional territory of the Haisla Nation, on the afternoon of July 29, 2024. HaiSea Marine is a joint venture majority owned by the Haisla Nation in partnership with Seaspan. HaiSea Marine has a major contract with LNG […]
July “Buck” full moon over Kitimat
July 22, 2024
The kingfisher and the fish
May 14, 2024
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
April 23, 2024
Sunday April 21, 2024, the date for the monthly shore bird count was a cold, wet, stormy spring morning at MK Bay and Haisla.