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  • June birding: An immature bald eagle, western tanager and more
  • Haisla Bridge Replacement Project Girder Launching Ceremony
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Posts Tagged “Kitimat”

June birding: An immature bald eagle, western tanager and more

Early summer is often a great time to photograph birds in the Kitimat Valley.

An immature (about two and half years old) bald eagle near Kitamaat Village. (Robin Rowland)

An immature (about two and half years old) bald eagle near Kitamaat Village. (Robin Rowland)

A soggy crow near Kitamaat Village. (Robin Rowland)

Fledgling starlings in flight in the wetland waterfront of Kitamaat Village (Robin Rowland)

A pair of bald eagles at MK Bay. (Robin Rowland)

A western tanager in a tree near MK Bay. (Robin Rowland)

A western tanager in a tree near MK Bay. (Robin Rowland)

 

June 24, 2022 Robin Rowland
birds, crow, eagle, Kitamaat Village, Kitimat, Photography, Sony RX10iii, wetlandbald eagle , Bird , Bird photography , birds , crow , Douglas Channel , Kitamaat Village , Kitimat , MK Bay , starling , western tanager

Haisla Bridge Replacement Project Girder Launching Ceremony

The Haisla Bridge Replacement Project, Girder Launching Ceremony, June 14. 2022. Pylons anchored deep into bedrock of the Kitimat River will soon be mounted with giant steel girders. The new bridge project is expected to be completed by spring, 2023, then the old bridge from 1953 with its familiar humming vibration on the old deck will be demolished.

 

June 15, 2022 Robin Rowland
bridge, Kitimat, LNG, Photoblog, Photography, Sony RX10iiiHaisla Boulevard , Haisla Bridge , Kitimat , river

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

“It’s not a costume” Racism protest in Kitimat

On Monday, Nov. 1, 2021, a student at Kitimat’s Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School wore traditional regalia for picture day. At that time a teacher allegedly asked the student “What’s the costume.” This led to a protest against racism the following day by indigenous and non-indigenous students supported by members of the Haisla Nation and Kitimat residents on Nov. 2.

Members of the Haisla Nation and supporters from Kitimat gathered at Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021 (Robin Rowland)

Greg Smith and his grandson Greg Bolton at the protest. (Robin Rowland)

Students, many in regalia, supported the protest. (Robin Rowland)

Students supported the protest. (Robin Rowland)

Shelley Bolton of the Haisla Braid Singers led the group in protest songs. (Robin Rowland)

Elders and residential school survivors joined the protest despite the poor weather. (Robin Rowland)

Video: Story I shot for Global News.‘It’s not a costume’: B.C. teacher’s alleged mocking of student’s Indigenous regalia sparks protest

Statement from the Haisla Nation (on the school board site)
 

Statement from Coast Mountain School District 82

November 3, 2021 Robin Rowland
demonstration, Haisla Nation, Kitamaat Village, Kitimat, news photo, Photoblog, Photography, protest, Reconciliation, Sony RX10iii, video, Visual journalismFirst Nations , Haisla Braid Singers , Kitamaat Village , Kitimat , Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School , protest , regalia

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

Great blue heron on Kitimat waterfront

A great blue heron stalks the Kitimat waterfront at MK Bay in a stormy fall rain squall.

October 11, 2021 Robin Rowland
autumn, BC, birds, black and white, Douglas Channel, heron, Kitamaat Village, Kitimat, nature, rain, seabird, seascape, stormBird , Bird photography , birds , Black-and-white , Douglas Channel , great blue heron , Kitamaat Village , Kitimat

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
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