Tag Archives: BC Coast

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Black Turnstones

September 14, 2020 by Steve W Photography | Comments Off

Here’s a bird often seen more on the shores of the outer BC coast than the inner estuaries and inlets. I came across these guys in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest, just a […]

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Mud Flats Grinch

September 7, 2020 by Steve W Photography | Comments Off

Have you ever seen anyone put a finger on either side of their mouth and pull it apart to make a funny or scary face? Well this piece of ‘natural art’ seems to be depicting […]

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It’s That Time Again!

August 31, 2020 by Steve W Photography | Comments Off

It’s that time again! The time of year when the Pink Salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) are returning to the BC coast in numbers. Not necessarily the great swarms of fish from the not to distant past, […]

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Baby Breach

August 28, 2020 by Steve W Photography | Comments Off

Following on from the two images last month in Humpback Hugs, here’s another shot from that great day out along the BC coast. With her pec fin high out of the water, it is almost […]

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Sleepy Spirit

August 24, 2020 by Steve W Photography | Comments Off

Well, we haven’t seen one of these guys for quite some time and I’ve no idea when I’ll get to see them again here on the BC coast. So in the meantime, I’ve been enjoying […]

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I’m Coming Mom!

August 14, 2020 by Steve W Photography | Comments Off

Whilst this young grizzly bear may look like it was running straight at me, it wasn’t, it was just running in my direction! Carrying on from Monday’s post – mom had decided it wasn’t a […]

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The Chancer

August 3, 2020 by Steve W Photography | Comments Off

We featured a Steller’s Jay quite a few years ago (see A Winters Jay) but I like this shot which shows a bit more of their character as ‘chancers’ with an attitude when it comes […]

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Black-capped Chickadee

July 31, 2020 by Steve W Photography | Comments Off

Chickadees will mob your feeders if you have them and for such small birds can seem very loud at times with their chirpy happy ‘chick-a-dee-dee’ sounding tweets. They work hard throughout the summer and fall […]

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A Khutzeymateen Update

July 27, 2020 by Steve W Photography | Comments Off

This is Big Momma – matriarch of the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary here on the BC coast, photographed in the fall of 2018. Many of us have wondered what it has been like in the […]

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In The Midst of the Action

July 24, 2020 by Steve W Photography | Comments Off

Last weeks whale trip also gave me the opportunity to return back to Stuart Island here on the BC coast in what is now almost becoming an annual pilgrimage to ‘Eagle Heaven’. Once again there […]

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Humpback Hugs

July 20, 2020 by Steve W Photography | Comments Off

I was treated to my first day out on the water last week and had a pretty good encounter with a mother humpback whale and her calf. Both whales were quite active with mom breaching […]

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Searching For Berries

July 17, 2020 by Steve W Photography | Comments Off

Before the salmon start to run, now is the time the bears hear on the BC coast head out and search for berries, which make a welcomed change from Lyngby’s sedge and other coastal plant […]