A Santa Story
The Fly Agaric mushroom (Amanita muscaria) known as a ‘psychoactive’ mushroom that used to be used in some form ritualistically throughout Europe and Asia. It is thought to have entered…
Fishing Grizzly
A few years back I was stood with some friends on a creek in northern British Columbia watching a pair of sub-adult sibling grizzly bears fishing for sockeye salmon. Their…
Red-crested Cardinal
I got this shot a few years back whilst in Maui photographing humpback whales. Red-crested Cardinals (Paroaria coronata) are a colourful, pretty bird that were introduced to the Hawaiian Islands…
In Step
Here are two yearling grizzly bear cubs photographed in the fall of last year looking good walking along the beach totally in step together. These two little bears were out…
Mule Deer
Found from the Arctic to Mexico, this large deer (males can weigh in at over 95kg) is also known as a black-tailed deer in some parts, but should not be…
The Queen and the Fly
Originally from Asia and Europe and deemed an invasive species in BC, the herbal plant ‘Queen Anne’s Lace’ (Daucus carota) is common in many coastal meadows and inlets throughout British…
Boatswain Bird
The Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus), a pelagic seabird photographed in the Caribbean Ocean last year. Little is known of this species, but it is known to be the largest of…
Looking Coy
Here's a photo taken a couple of years back of a young male grizzly bear looking rather coy. He had been living a year on his own since his weaning…
The Spoilt Cub
I had never seen a mum swimming with a cub on her back before last year (see Surfing), but this year I was fortunate to see this mum swimming a…
Young Salmon Eater
Here’s a young grizzly bear, not yet three years old, looking up as he finishes off a salmon that he had managed to catch a little while earlier. For bears…
Harebells
Here’s a hardy flower I found growing facing the setting sun on a tiny rocky outcrop off a small island close to Dixon Entrance, on the northern BC coast. Harebells…
Greater Yellowlegs
I don't know why, but I always enjoy seeing these large members of the sandpiper family and their cousins the Lesser Yellowlegs when I'm out and about around our coastal…
Humpback Surprise
Orca weren’t the only surprise visitors to the Khutzeymateen back in August (see ‘Surprise Visitors’), we also had a visit from a humpback whale on a couple of occasions too.…
Nap Time
Here we have some more sleeping bears - this time a grizzly bear mom and her two tiny cubs of the year, photographed taking a nap one afternoon back in…
Surprise Visitors
We had surprise visitors in the Khutzeymateen one day back towards the end of August - a small pod of transient orca or to some killer whales, came in and…