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Morning Birding

I have headed down to a spot each morning before I go to work this week, and been quite successful in finding the birds I hoped to come across. I knew there were Lewis's Woodpeckers in the area, it was just a matter of coming across them. I wake up earlier than usual, get my morning chores done, walk our dogs and get ready for work, then set out to the location and spend about half an hour before I have to head into work. It is a really great way to start off my mornings before a day at work. Clinton BC

Sunset BJ

Sunset Blue Jay

Red Blob

We have a couple wildfires burning near our town, which has turned the sun a deep red when it's clear enough to see it. I was walking our dogs once it cooled down, the sun was setting quickly and I captured this shot before it set behind the mountain. You can really see the different thickness of smoke moving in front of the sun and some sun spots too. Clinton BC

They Call Me Stretch

I love coming across birds, especially Waxwings, they are so comical. This one was almost asleep when I was photographing it and all of a sudden it perked up and stretched its neck right out. It stood like this for a little while and I couldn't help but smile the longer it stood this way. Clinton BC

Great Blue Heron Fledgling

Nice hair

Cortez Island

Dropped anchor near Cortez Island and a Beautiful Sunset

Western Grebe

Growing fast. Just a few days before I took this photo, the babies were still sitting on Mom's back.

Cicada

I took this photo of the Cicada as it sat on a Coneflower plant in my garden.

Western Meadowlark

Born to Sing. While travelling through Saskatchewan, I caught this beauty at a remote rest stop.

All Alone

I captured this shot of the Snail in my back yard. It was crawling on a Sedum leaf.

Milkweed Tussock Moth Caterpillars

I captured this shot of the caterpillars in my back yard. They were demolishing a Milkweed that I planted for the Monarch butterflies to lay their eggs on.

Magnolia Warbler

​A brief pause mid-flight for a Magnolia Warbler. Captured foraging in the softwood canopy.

The Grass Has Eyes

I was walking our dogs this morning and when we turned to come back, I was looking at all the grass in the ditch and found a damselfly on the grass. I only had my telephoto lens and luckily it worked out to photograph this cute little one. It had went in behind the grass, the eyes peaking out on each side, I had to be quick to get the photo, who knows if this opportunity would happen again! Clinton BC

Blue Heron With Lunch

I caught up this Blue Heron taking off with a Catfish it had just caught for lunch.

Night sky over the St. Martins caves

There was a contest this week for pictures taken after dark. Not my usual thing, so I hoped to experiment and see what I could do. This is a bit of the Milky Way over the sea caves.

A land that one was

Every summer, I climb back into the badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park and stand on ground that was once a floodplain crawling with creatures we now only know from bone. This UNESCO World Heritage Site has given up over 500 dinosaur skeletons from more than 40 species — one of the richest fossil beds on Earth. 75 million years ago, this was a warm, lush river delta, not the stark badlands you see tonight. Which makes me wonder: on a clear night back then, did any of them ever look up? Did a Centrosaurus pause mid-stride and take in the same core of our galaxy stretching over the horizon? Sixty-some million years before anyone thought to name the stars, the sky already looked a lot like this. 📍 Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta 📷 Sony A9 iii + Sony FE 24 f/1.4 GM

Bears and Railway Tracks

There’s something almost magnetic about railway tracks in the Canadian Rockies — and if you’ve spent enough time in Banff or Yoho, you know bears feel it too. But why do Bears 🐻 hang out by railway tracks? Turns out, the answer is layered. The cleared right-of-way creates open corridors through dense forest — easy travel routes for animals that would otherwise push through heavy bush. Buffaloberries thrive along the sun-exposed edges, making the tracks a seasonal buffet. Grain spills from passing CP Rail hopper cars add high-calorie food to the mix. And carcasses of elk or deer struck by trains is free protein. Bears have been using these corridors since the park was established in 1885. The problem is, it’s also one of the most dangerous habits a grizzly can have. Winding track, steep embankments, highway noise masking the rumble of an approaching freight train — by the time a bear hears it, there’s often no time to react. At least 17-20 grizzlies have been killed by trains in Banff since 2000, in a population of only about 60. Bear 188 isn’t the only one drawn to that ribbon of steel. Even The Boss 122 — the most dominant male in the park — was struck by a train in 2010 and somehow walked away. Parks Canada and CP Rail have been working to change the odds and have implemented several mitigation measures, including: Improving grain-car sealing to reduce spills, Removing spilled grain from tracks, Managing vegetation along rail corridors, Testing wildlife detection and warning systems, Using aversive conditioning to move bears away from tracks and Conducting long-term research into bear behaviour around railways. It’s a complicated coexistence. And every time I see a bear along that corridor, I feel both the wonder of the encounter and the weight of what it represents. 📍 Canadian Rockies 📷 Sony A9 III + Sony FE 200-600 G OSS

Prairie sunset

Sun setting behind canola.

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Morning Birding

I have headed down to a spot each morning before I go to work this week, and been quite successful in finding the birds I hoped to come across. I knew there were Lewis's Woodpeckers in the area, it was just a matter of coming across them. I wake up earlier than usual, get my morning chores done, walk our dogs and get ready for work, then set out to the location and spend about half an hour before I have to head into work. It is a really great way to start off my mornings before a day at work. Clinton BC

Sunset BJ

Sunset Blue Jay

Red Blob

We have a couple wildfires burning near our town, which has turned the sun a deep red when it's clear enough to see it. I was walking our dogs once it cooled down, the sun was setting quickly and I captured this shot before it set behind the mountain. You can really see the different thickness of smoke moving in front of the sun and some sun spots too. Clinton BC

They Call Me Stretch

I love coming across birds, especially Waxwings, they are so comical. This one was almost asleep when I was photographing it and all of a sudden it perked up and stretched its neck right out. It stood like this for a little while and I couldn't help but smile the longer it stood this way. Clinton BC

Great Blue Heron Fledgling

Nice hair

Cortez Island

Dropped anchor near Cortez Island and a Beautiful Sunset

Western Grebe

Growing fast. Just a few days before I took this photo, the babies were still sitting on Mom's back.

Cicada

I took this photo of the Cicada as it sat on a Coneflower plant in my garden.

Western Meadowlark

Born to Sing. While travelling through Saskatchewan, I caught this beauty at a remote rest stop.

All Alone

I captured this shot of the Snail in my back yard. It was crawling on a Sedum leaf.

Milkweed Tussock Moth Caterpillars

I captured this shot of the caterpillars in my back yard. They were demolishing a Milkweed that I planted for the Monarch butterflies to lay their eggs on.

Magnolia Warbler

​A brief pause mid-flight for a Magnolia Warbler. Captured foraging in the softwood canopy.

The Grass Has Eyes

I was walking our dogs this morning and when we turned to come back, I was looking at all the grass in the ditch and found a damselfly on the grass. I only had my telephoto lens and luckily it worked out to photograph this cute little one. It had went in behind the grass, the eyes peaking out on each side, I had to be quick to get the photo, who knows if this opportunity would happen again! Clinton BC

Blue Heron With Lunch

I caught up this Blue Heron taking off with a Catfish it had just caught for lunch.

Night sky over the St. Martins caves

There was a contest this week for pictures taken after dark. Not my usual thing, so I hoped to experiment and see what I could do. This is a bit of the Milky Way over the sea caves.

A land that one was

Every summer, I climb back into the badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park and stand on ground that was once a floodplain crawling with creatures we now only know from bone. This UNESCO World Heritage Site has given up over 500 dinosaur skeletons from more than 40 species — one of the richest fossil beds on Earth. 75 million years ago, this was a warm, lush river delta, not the stark badlands you see tonight. Which makes me wonder: on a clear night back then, did any of them ever look up? Did a Centrosaurus pause mid-stride and take in the same core of our galaxy stretching over the horizon? Sixty-some million years before anyone thought to name the stars, the sky already looked a lot like this. 📍 Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta 📷 Sony A9 iii + Sony FE 24 f/1.4 GM

Bears and Railway Tracks

There’s something almost magnetic about railway tracks in the Canadian Rockies — and if you’ve spent enough time in Banff or Yoho, you know bears feel it too. But why do Bears 🐻 hang out by railway tracks? Turns out, the answer is layered. The cleared right-of-way creates open corridors through dense forest — easy travel routes for animals that would otherwise push through heavy bush. Buffaloberries thrive along the sun-exposed edges, making the tracks a seasonal buffet. Grain spills from passing CP Rail hopper cars add high-calorie food to the mix. And carcasses of elk or deer struck by trains is free protein. Bears have been using these corridors since the park was established in 1885. The problem is, it’s also one of the most dangerous habits a grizzly can have. Winding track, steep embankments, highway noise masking the rumble of an approaching freight train — by the time a bear hears it, there’s often no time to react. At least 17-20 grizzlies have been killed by trains in Banff since 2000, in a population of only about 60. Bear 188 isn’t the only one drawn to that ribbon of steel. Even The Boss 122 — the most dominant male in the park — was struck by a train in 2010 and somehow walked away. Parks Canada and CP Rail have been working to change the odds and have implemented several mitigation measures, including: Improving grain-car sealing to reduce spills, Removing spilled grain from tracks, Managing vegetation along rail corridors, Testing wildlife detection and warning systems, Using aversive conditioning to move bears away from tracks and Conducting long-term research into bear behaviour around railways. It’s a complicated coexistence. And every time I see a bear along that corridor, I feel both the wonder of the encounter and the weight of what it represents. 📍 Canadian Rockies 📷 Sony A9 III + Sony FE 200-600 G OSS

Prairie sunset

Sun setting behind canola.