Fishing Wolves
A special sight for sure, a coastal wolf leaving a creek with a chum salmon. Being able to witness wolves fishing is a special treat and honour. Knowing you…
Snowy Owl – A Hallmark Moment!
Click to Enlarge Image Snowy Owl's (Nyctea scandiaca) are starting to make a return to the BC coast now for the winter and I hope to be able to get…
Northern Fulmar
From afar, you'd be forgiven for thinking this was just another gull for it is very similar in size to larger gulls and if you saw one gliding over the…
Swimming Lesson
Click to Enlarge Image Continuing the 'swimming' theme from Friday, this popular shot taken on the BC coast a couple of years back shows a momma grizzly with her two…
Swimming Deer
As we were moving the boat to a new anchorage on our last evening in the Khutzeymateen back in June, I spotted something in the water and as we got…
Asters
These colourful and hardy daisy-like wildflowers can be found along the BC coast from wetlands to alpine meadows throughout summer and fall. They can come in a variety of colours…
Raven
On one particular river system I was working on this past summer this entertaining raven would come down and squawk at all in attendance. He was very vocal and revealed…
Fireworks
Click to Enlarge Image Here is a favourite shot from a few years back, part of a trilogy really (see also Forlorn Bear & Very Tired Bear) of a grizzly…
Kelp
Hiding in amongst the low-tide kelp along the BC coast we can spot a young black bear cub smiling to him/herself. Bears will rummage amongst the kelp at low tide…
Lincoln’s Sparrow
This shy but chirpy little songbird first attracted my attention by the beautiful song it was singing one July morning on Admiralty Island in SE Alaska. This was the first…
Sea Stacks
Photographed back in the late spring, these 'Sea Stacks' are to be found on the north end of the spectacular remote beach at San Josef Bay on Vancouver Island's NW…
Grizzly and Chum
Click to Enlarge Image It seems like a long while since I posted a picture of an adult grizzly and certainly a male. Well, this is one of my favourite…
Brewer’s Blackbird
Click to Enlarge Image Here is a bird I photographed a couple of summers back when he landed on a dock close to were I was standing at the time.…
Just Swimming By
Harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) are found throughout the BC coast and this Harbour Seal was photographed just swimming by, checking us out. Not only does this shot give us an excellent overhead…
Little Khutz Cub
This little guy, a grizzly bear cub, was having himself a great little adventure playing chase with his sibling and charging through the tall grasses of the shoreline around the Khutzeymateen estuary…