The Painted Turtle (Chrysemys picta) is the only freshwater turtle found in British Columbia where this shot was taken. Exact numbers in BC are not known, but the strongest population is thought to exist in […]
Often when you think of a bird of prey you think of hook billed raptors soaring overhead looking for food down below. This preconceived image makes it hard for us to imagine the Secretarybird (Sagittarius […]
Just look at the state of these two little guys! They were out with their mum and another sibling on the mud flats of the Khutzeymateen digging for clams on the low tide – but […]
I came across this old boardwalk trail behind a village on the BC coast in the Great Bear Rainforest one day and standing back and looking at it like this it just made me think […]
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, […]
Here we have a couple of playful lion cubs (see also ‘Cutey’) hanging out by a river in the Ndutu area of Tanzania. The clear sunny sky made for a lovely reflection of the two in […]
This young black bear seems to be giving us the eye to make sure we’re not about to leap off the river bank and try to steal the pink salmon he seems to be enjoying […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Well, at the time of this shot, you wouldn’t need to worry if it was a good salmon year on this particular river system – just take a look at this guy! This bear, along […]
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 […]
