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.
Tag: spring
Golden crowned sparrow in my backyard
April 20, 2024
Spring hike in old growth Kitimat River Provincial Park
April 7, 2024
On April 6, I took a spring hike in Kitimat River Provincial Park Kitimat River Park protects two parcels of small but highly productive old-growth Sitka spruce and red cedar forest on the natural floodplain and fluvial terraces of the Kitimat River. It also protects grizzly bear habitat and culturally modified trees The hike was […]
The full “sap moon” heralds spring
March 25, 2024
The first full moon that comes after the spring equinox, which marks the change from astronomical winter to astronomical spring is often called the sap moon (the sap is running) or the worm moon (worms appear in the soil). Also called the Lenten moon, since the Christian Easter is always the first Sunday following the […]
A smokey Kitimat Sunday morning sunrise and moonset
March 24, 2019
One of my favourite birds in here in Kitimat is the Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius). There were a lot more than usual this spring for one reason or another. So here is an album of images. A varied thrush on my back deck. (Robin Rowland) There was still snow in a hollow in a […]
Fog bound Douglas Channel on a sunny May morning
May 2, 2016
It’s a beautiful sunny,late spring morning in Kitimat, BC. But look out at Kitimat harbour and Douglas Channel and you see its socked in with fog.