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Autumn Meadowhawk
A striking, but fairly small dragonfly, the ‘Autumn Meadowhawk’ (Sympetrum vicinum) is a regular wetlands sighting in the fall across southern and eastern Canada. They can reach a length of around 3 to 3.5cm and as well as the red colour seen in the males, females can appear an orange to yellow to light brown…
Friday Flashback – Young Wolf
Today’s Friday Flashback is from 1st December 2017 and is entitled ‘Young Wolf’. Always a favourite of many - I can never resist showing a wolf photograph when one comes around. Original Text: “Here’s a shot from along the BC coast of a young looking coastal wolf that I came across earlier this year. The…
Tricoloured Bear
Whilst on my road trip through parts of northern BC back in June I briefly spotted this female black bear making her way through some wild rose bushes and as can be seen she’s pretty excited and has her eyes firmly fixed on some of the first early blooms of twinberry in the area. She…
Friday Flashback – Salmon Supper
Today’s Friday Flashback is from 6th October 2017 and is entitled ‘Salmon Supper’. Without a doubt this is one of my favourite ‘September’ shots from back in 2017. I can still remember the short time we got to spend with Junior as he played and showed off with his piece of spawned-out salmon. Original Text:…
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
I hadn’t seen one of these pretty little birds before last spring and when I first spotted this guy through my living room window I initially thought he was perhaps bleeding from around the neck! But this is a Rose-breasted Grosbeak (Pheucticus ludovicianus) and his colouration is natural. All in all there are over 30…
Friday Flashback – Are You Coming?
Today's Friday Flashback is from 18th September 2017 and is entitled 'Are You Coming?' By this time of year, this large bear will hopefully be tucking into the salmon run on the BC coast and pretty soon he'll be looking back to see if we're following him to his winter den! Original Text: "I came…
Friday Flashback – Black Bear on the Beach
Today's Friday Flashback is from 15th September 2017 and is entitled 'Black Bear on the Beach'. This big bear was certainly a beauty and I remember sitting watching him for some time whilst he sat around enjoying the odd bit of sedge. Original Text: "Here on the BC coast a lot of people are reporting…
Friday Flashback – Cliff-face Coyote
Today's Friday Flashback is from 9th October 2017 and is entitled 'Cliff-face Coyote'. Coyotes are usually a very skittish canine and getting to see them in the wild is another special treat and having them stick around long enough to photograph is just the icing on the cake. Original Text: "As the snow starts to…
Purple Pitcher Plant
The Purple Pitcher Plant (Sarracenia purpurea), sometimes knowns as the ‘Northern pitcher plant’ is the only sub-species of pitcher plant found in Canada, so colloquially it is also often only referred to simply as a ‘pitcher’ plant. This plant is one of a number of ‘carnivorous’ plants that are found in Canada and is the…
Wildebeest In Training
Here we see a couple of young wildebeest practicing their rutting skills. Each year, as with other ungulates, the urge to mate is fierce and this provokes fights amongst the males for the right to mate with the nearby females. In Tanzania the ‘rut’ amongst wildebeest will usually occur around May and June each year,…
Eagle and Crab
I’ve seen eagles with many a different and sometimes surprising food source including other birds, very large fish and even octopus, but this was a first and a surprise when we spotted this guy with a crab. I don't think the crab was still alive, but had it been, this eagle would have had to…
Friday Flashback – Yoga Bear
Today's Friday Flashback is from 28th August 2017 and is entitled 'Yoga Bear'. Not only is this female grizzly bear, known as Star, a long time favourite because I was able to watch her grow up, but this is also one of my favourite shots of her - an 18x24 canvas print hangs above my…
Friday Flashback – Morrighan
Today's Friday Flashback is from the 4th August 2017 and is entitled 'Morrighan', (aka. Morrigan). I enjoyed reminding myself of some of the legends of Raven when I looked back for a flashback recently and I thought you might enjoy hearing them again too! Original Text: "It seems as though the Raven has been the source of…
Iberian Water Frog
The Iberian Water Frog (Pelophylax perezi), also known as 'Perez's Frog', can be found in most fresh water habitats across Portugal and Spain. I came across this guy in a roadside ditch and found him because of his loud, almost bird like call. When they vocalize, which is primarily to attract a mate, they fill…
An Old Boot!
Here’s a view from Portugal’s ‘Cabo de Sao Vicente’ (Cape St. Vincent) and on first glance I’d say it was another piece of ‘natural art’, this time representing the form of an old ankle boot - left behind by a Pleistocene ogre or giant before the rise of the oceans perhaps! Despite my tongue in…
Friday Flashback – White Faced Black Bear
Today's Friday Flashback is from 12th June 2017 and is entitled 'White Faced Black Bear'. 2017 was a crazy year for seeing black bears in the Khutzeymateen, I'd never seen any in there before then (or since), but was lucky enough to see several that year, including a couple of good encounters. Original Text: "I’m…
Friday Flashback – Fighting Grizzlies
Today's Friday Flashback is from 24th July 2017 and is entitled 'Fighting Grizzlies'. I'm still working on this year's 'Khutz' pictures, but unfortunately we did not get to see any action like this on this years visit, however, I'm pretty sure we did see one of these two bears. Original Text: "Although it looks quite…
Power Pole Osprey
Although I’ve photographed many osprey over the last few years, I haven’t featured any here on the blog for quite some time, so I thought I’d publish this one taken early one morning whilst on the road in BC last month. This guy was sitting atop an old power or telephone pole not too far…
Friday Flashback – Kitwanga Sunrise
Today's Friday Flashback is from May 1st 2017 and is entitled 'Kitwanga Sunrise'. A pretty area that I've passed through many times over the years, including on my recent BC road trip last month. Original Text: "A ‘golden’ double bill to start the month. Many people, especially family members often ask me why do I…
Good To See You Again – Big Momma
Whilst on my recent trip back to the Khutzeymateen in BC, as well as a few new bears, I also had hopes of seeing one or two of the old regulars, but seeing this old girl was a real surprise. Big Momma has featured here many times over the years, along with several of her…
Friday Flashback – Old Winter Coat
Today's Friday Flashback is from 24 April 2017 and is entitled 'Old Winter Coat - Going Free'. We'd occasionally see one or two mountain goats early in the season in the Khutzeymateen and maybe in one or two other mountainous settings I've been to also, but not many. Original Text: "Spring is a time when…
Crows Having Fun
As reported before, (see Arch Enemies) eagles and crows have a well known love-hate relationship and that was certainly demonstrated on this day when I came across these three on the BC coast in Prince Rupert recently. I had been watching the eagle quietly sitting on the rooftop of an old fish plant building, thoughtfully…
Friday Flashback – Bubble Netters II
Today's Friday Flashback is from 23rd January 2017 and is entitled ‘Bubble Netters II’. Memories from a pretty special trip to Alaska from a few years ago now, but all being well we should be seeing some more of this action later in the summer. Original Text: "I first published a shot from this very special…
Look To The Sky
An unusual view for an Atlantic Puffin, but I could’t resist this guy stretching out his neck and ‘looking to the sky’. Probably nothing really was going through his mind, but sometimes we find ourselves wondering what they are thinking when animals and birds do something that is a little out of the ordinary, at…
Friday Flashback – Stepping Out
Today’s Friday Flashback is from 27th March 2017 and is entitled ‘Stepping Out’. As I've said before, I sure miss seeing these guys, but for over the next couple of weeks - you never know!Original Text: "It has been a long while since we’ve featured a spirit bear, in fact, it’s been a couple of…
Large Psammodromus
The Large Psammodromus Lizard (Psammodromus algirus) can easily measure up to 45cm nose to tail, which makes his tail length over twice his body length and it can be found throughout the Iberian peninsula of Portugal and Spain and into the Mediterranean. No real threat to humans, but if you’re a bug, fly or other…
Friday Flashback – A Quizzical Look
It’s starting to shape up into a busy year photographically and as I head back out ‘on the road’ once again I thought I’d bring the ‘flashbacks’ back for the next couple of months. Today’s Friday Flashback is from 3rd February 2017 and is entitled ‘A Quizzical Look’. Hopefully I'll be seeing a few more…
Longtime No See – Coastal Wolf
For me it’s been a longtime without seeing one of these guys, but fingers are crossed that I may come across one on my upcoming trip back into the BC bush - let’s hope so. In the meantime I still have a few unedited frames remaining on file and I found this shot recently which…
Lappet-faced Vulture
This is a Lappet-faced Vulture (Torgos tracheliotos) and at over a metre tall they are the largest of all the vulture species in Africa, but sadly today, they're considered an endangered species. They get their name from the folded or overlapping skin around the head - which kind of resembles a type of headscarf but…
No Luck This Time
Here we see a young sub-adult grizzly bear leaving a river in Northern BC looking a little forlorn at having had no luck at catching himself a salmon - on this occasion! As we’ve seen in other posts of this bear and his sibling though, (See Sockeye Bear), they did have plenty of success overall…
Black-winged Kite
The Black-winged Kite (Elanus caeruleus)can be found across many parts of Africa, through central to Eastern Asia and in parts of Western Europe. At around 38cm it is considered a small kite that is similar in size to falcons such as the kestrel and despite its dark wings, received its name due to the black…
Beachside Bruiser
Here we see a large and fairly old looking black bear out searching for food amongst the shoreline pickings of low tide on the BC coast. This beachside bruiser certainly has distinct looking features and appears to be giving a pretty mean look in my general direction as I took the photograph, but that was…
Chameleon
I’m just back from a couple of months in Portugal, enjoying learning a lot of history and observing parts of the spring bird migration from Africa to Europe. But whilst there I did manage to see one or two other smaller animals and one of the hardest to find are these guys - the Mediterranean…
Grey Crowned Crane
The spectacular looking Grey Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum), initially, in name at least, takes a little explaining. It is not a ‘grey-crowned’ crane but is in fact a grey crane with a crown! In some parts it is known, maybe more aptly, as the ‘golden-crested’ crane, along with several other names in others. This is…
Long Awaited Return
In a few weeks time I’m heading back to the Khutzeymateen after three years away. Although I have thousands, many still unpublished, photographs from the area and despite being able to keep fairly up to date on some of the comings and goings through others visiting the area, I still miss regularly seeing the resident…
Mountain Lion
In this case the title does not refer to the alternative name for the cougars of North America but actually refers to what the image is of - a lion on a mountain! We came across this beautiful looking and pregnant lioness on a kopje in Tanzania’s Northern Serengeti. As mentioned previously, (see Kopje Queen)…
Whale Channel Sunset
Here we are looking west towards the opening of ’Whale Channel’ on the BC coast. As you head north out of McKay Breach, even on the ferry to Prince Rupert, just before you get to the village of Hartley Bay, off to your left is Whale Channel, which eventually leads to Hecate Strait. It is…