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Shore Walking Spirit
Hot on the heels of the 2015 post - here's another 'Christmas Spirit' to finish off the year.Someone asked about spirit bears recently and although I haven’t come across any for a few years now, I thought I’d check out some older files of them and whilst looking through I spotted this previously unpublished shot…
Slumber Party
Here we see a bloat of hippos getting some rest after making it back to their favourite watering hole before sunrise. But on our way from the hippo hotspot we came across one girl (below) who was late getting back from her night out on the town. She certainly had right of way whilst crossing…
Cape Buffalo
After encountering a certain species of bovine during a visit to Yellowstone National Park in the US back in 2016 the question was asked Buffalo or Bison? The answer then of course was bison, but today we have a true buffalo, the Cape Buffalo (Syncerus cafer cafer) one of four sub-species of African Buffalo. The…
River Sentinels
Perched on a washed out tree root in the middle of the Khutzeymateen river, these two bald eagles, probably a nesting pair, sit like sentinels on guard over the river. Of course they are not really on guard, but are actually on the lookout for fish, more over, hoping for some salmon swimming by.
Maui Postcard
Here’s a follow-up and gentle reminder to the November 2019 post ‘Maui Visitors’. Here we see a mother humpback whale and her calf breaching together. It’s probably nothing of the sort, but we and our guide at the time liked to think that perhaps it was one of the young calf’s first breaching lessons from…
Lilac-breasted Roller
Lit up in the early morning sun, the colours on this spectacular bird look fantastic. Endemic to Africa, the Lilac-breasted Roller (Coracias caudatus) can be found across the Eastern and Southern sub-Saharan parts of the continent, including Tanzania, where this shot came from and they are also the national bird of Kenya. There are many…
Fever Tree Pond Scene
The Fever Tree (Vachellia xanthopholea) is fairly common in marshy or swampy areas and other wetlands and can be found from Kenya down to South Africa. It was given its name thanks to early missionaries and others that lived or stayed in areas in which the tree was to be found. High numbers of them…
Tails from BC – Humpback Whale
Humpback whales must certainly be the showiest and most surface active whales of them all. We’ve seen them before breaching, tail slapping, spy hopping and, like this guy photographed in British Columbia, performing a peduncle throw. But what does all this show boating mean? Well, biologists around the world have come up with many explanations…
Ruppell’s Griffon Vulture
Although I haven’t featured any yet, I encountered many vultures of four different sub-species whilst in Tanzania earlier this year. Not quite the largest, but at around 40 inches tall, this Ruppell's Griffon Vulture (Gyps rueppelli) (named after a German zoologist in the early 1800’s) was certainly one of the most intimidating that I came…
You Can Do It!
Have you ever been a spectator at an event and found yourself determinedly wishing for a participant to succeed? The sort of feeling where you can hear yourself in your head saying “go on, go on, you can do it”? Well, just look at the expressions on the faces of these two small grizzly bear…
Smoked Salmon…
…Or old salmon? On fist sight, this young grizzly bear, photographed on a creek on the interior of BC a while back, could certainly look as if he’d got himself a nice looking piece of smoked salmon. But of course if you look closer, you can see it is in fact a very old piece of dead sockeye. And, as
Rocky the Racoon
How can you not love a face like that? This was a racoon I spotted one evening sneaking through the garden and was quite surprised when I saw it’s right eye. From afar it seemed healthy enough and had spent a minute or two chewing on something it had found to eat amongst the foliage and upon hearing
The Red Postman
Red Postman (Heliconius erato) are one of the most commonly found butterflies in Mexico (where this shot came from) and Central/South America. I found this guy in a glade and gardens on the edge of a forest – some of their favourite habitat. Thanks to it’s love of pollen and foul taste to potential
Southern Elephant Seal
I came across this moulting Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) inSouth Georgia– thought to be the home of the most dense mating colony in the world. This is only a young male, but adults can reach a weight of around 4,000kg and can measure up to 6 metres long – making them the largest true se
Grizzly Watching
We’d been stood at the end of a trail on the BC coast watching this female grizzly bear fishing and feeding for quite some time. She would catch a salmon or dig out a carcass and come to the edge of the river to eat it (seeChow Down) before wandering out again to look for more. On this occasion, bef
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Here’s an attractive small bird only found on the Pacific coast from Alaska down to mid-California – the Chestnut-backed Chickadee (Poecile rufescens). It is also the only species of chickadee found on Vancouver Island. Similar in size and appearance to it’s cousin, which is found nationwide, thebla
Fishing – Coastal Wolf Style
This is a great series of shots of this coastal grey wolf fishing. Starting with the image of him ‘pointing’ at the water as he hones his senses ready to catch a salmon. I love how he’s so intent concentrating on the water eyes sharp, ears alert – watching and listening for the slightest movement on
Resilience
Back in 2018 I watched this bear one day as he swam across the Khutzeymateen inlet and disappeared at quite a pace off to the west. I didn’t see him again for about two weeks, but when he did reappear down the inlet he was limping very badly – just about carrying his back left leg. He looked in cons
Bittersweet Nightshade
This attractive purple perennial – Bittersweet Nightshade (Solanum dulcamara) – was found on the shores of Vaseux Lake in the Okanagan Valley of BC back in August. Although pretty to look at, this ‘day lily’ looking plant is toxic to humans and animals and should never be ingested, although some bir
Southern Giant Petrel
Whilst searching for something through my archives recently, I found myself looking back at a series of images that I have which are from my film days, taken when I was down in theSouth Atlanticback in 1998. I have shown one shot from this series before –King Penguinand following this recent search
River Float
After a fruitless search for salmon (seeNo Salmon) an adult male grizzly bear lets the current take him down river to continue his search. As he floats by he gives us a quizzical look – as if to ask if we know of any good salmon fishing holes. He did pretty well in the end though, but still had to s
Coastal Momma
Here’s a momma grizzly bear giving us the eye. She’s a bear of the BC coast that I know well and that little cub just in shot is one of the third set of cubs I’d seen this bear with over the years. On this particular day, this bear family were just making their way along the shoreline searching for
Wet-look Eagle
It’s been a while since we featured a bald eagle, but this shot stood out recently and with the autumnal weather (rain) we’re now seeing it seemed quite appropriate. I just love the ‘fresh out the shower’ look of this bedraggled bird. The rain doesn’t seem to bother them too much and in most cases t
Kermode Bear
I haven’t been fortunate enough to get out and see any spirit bears for a while now and this is a shot from ten years ago that never got processed. I have published a couple of shots of this guy in the ‘Stepping Out’ and ‘Watching for Salmon’ posts, but never followed up with any of the others. This
End of the Month!
As the sun gets close to setting on another month, I thought I’d bring you another shot of the sun setting in theKhutzeymateen. Timed much later in the evening than in October of course, this late in the day shot from July 2018 was grabbed from the deck of the boat – whilst everyone else aboard was
Egret Landing
There was a little excitement amongst the birdwatchers of Newfoundland last weekend when there was a couple ofGreat Egret(Ardea alba) sightings around the South East coastline. These birds are not traditionally seen on Newfoundland, not even during migration. They do come as far north as Southern No