Updated I am lucky enough to be surrounded by the magnificent steller’s jay. A group of them live in a tall conifer across a small park from my house. (Unfortunately BC Hydro contractors opened up one part of the tree while rewiring the neighbourhood so the steller’s jays in that tree may be vulnerable.) […]
Early last Sunday morning I heard the thump of a bird hitting the glass door that leads out to my deck. I looked out and saw the bird stagger around the deck then take wing and land on the table on the deck. Birds do hit the door a few times a year and […]
One of the at least three families of stellar jays that live in the cedar trees at my house is bolder and smarter than the rest. Or maybe it’s a “point bird.” If I go out with a bag of seeds to refill the feeder, there is the harsh call of the stellar jay […]
For the past month or so, the weather in Kitimat has been miserable. Even long term residents say this fall (like the entire summer) has been unusually wet. It’s been snow, rain, snow, rain, snow rain for most of November. The culprit, according to the experts, is La Nina, which brought too much snow (even […]
So I had some interesting visitors at my bird feeders for Thanksgiving Dinner today. I think this is a gorgeous male red winged blackbird. The redwinged blackbird and his mate on my deck beam. The BC redwinged blackbird is is somewhat different from the birds I photographed in Ontario, that at first I didn’t recognize […]
For the second time this summer, a fledgling has taken refuge on my back deck and just stayed there. A few weeks ago it was a young robin. On Monday, it was a fledgling stellar jay. I had just got home and the young bird was sitting right under my feeder, not moving. the summer […]
Sometimes the photos come to you. Be prepared. I have my Sony Alpha 850 with the Sigma 170-500mm on the dining room table to shoot the birds that come to my feeder. It had been a slow week at the feeder On Wednesday morning, a fledgling robin suddenly lands on my back deck, and not […]