Common Mergansers
September 15, 2021
Tag: ocean
It was forty years ago, in August, 1980, that a friend and I drove from Vancouver, BC, where I was living at the time, to spend a weekend at Florence, Oregon, which inspired Frank Herbert to write the famous novel Dune. Like many at the time, I was entranced by Dune as soon as I […]
A smokey Kitimat Sunday morning sunrise and moonset
March 24, 2019
Christmas bird count 2018 in a snow storm
December 16, 2018
Trumpeter swans, signets and canvasback ducks in the Kitimat River estuary, Dec.15, 2018. (Robin Rowland) My portion of the Christmas Bird Count in the Kitimat River Estuary (courtesy Rio Tinto) was in an afternoon blizzard which cut visibility by up to about 80 per cent at times and was no help to the cameras, […]
A murder of crows mob a juvenile bald eagle
October 15, 2018
There were more crows than usual Sunday morning at the Kitamaat Village waterfront. Crows perching on old driftwood roots…. …or in the air along the shore line. Suddenly all the crows took to the air….that murder of crows (or as one of the other birders said “it looks like two murders”). It was soon […]
Birds in the fog on a sunny morning in Kitamaat Village
October 29, 2017
Humpback whales in Bishop Bay
September 4, 2017
I went down “the Channel” (the collective name for the waters of Douglas Channel and the surrounding passages, channels and canals) with friends on Monday, August 28. We were first heading down Ursula Channel toward Monkey Beach where I was going to shoot some portraits of my friends, Before we got to Monkey Beach we […]