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Quebec's Charlevoix Mountains
The Charlevoix Mountains in Quebec never fail to impress. A place where raw landscapes, wide horizons, and quiet moments come together in the most powerful way.
Young moments in nature
young eastern cotton tail ( nesting in my backyard) is out for a snack in the tall grass.
Everything in life matters
Beautiful moment where a bubble bee helps its self to some pollen from the lilac tree
Cedar Wax-wing
Cedar Wax-wing arriving back in town just as the first berries ripen.
Everything in life matters
Beautiful moment where a bumble bee is on my lilac tree
Male Mountain Bluebird 12
A male Mountain Bluebird sings on a Larch tree branch.
Nothing Common about this Lake
Chilly early spring day looking out onto the lake and seeing my first Common Loon
Puffin Profile
Caught this Puffin with a dirty beak
Northern Flicker
Hybrid Yellow x Red Shafted Northern Flicker
Male Mountain Bluebird 11
A male Mountain Bluebird brings a juicy caterpillar to his young.
Northern Pintail
Taken in the early morning golden light
Crowology
The Origin Of The World (Loucheux legend) In the days when the earth was all covered with water, the animals lived on a large raft. The Crow said, “Had I any earth, even so little, I would make it grow large enough for all the animals to live upon.” Muskrat, Otter, and many other divers went down under the waters and tried to bring up some earth; but they were all drowned. Last of all, Beaver dived with a line attached to his body. He went so deep that he was almost drowned when he reached the bottom. In his death-struggle he clutched some mud in his paws, and the mud was still there when he was drawn up lifeless by the line. Taking it and running his walking-stick through it, the Crow planted the stick in the water in such a way that the bit of earth rested at the surface of the water. The earth grew larger and larger. When it was big enough to hold all the animals, they stepped unto it from the raft. The Crow’s walking-stick is still supporting the land; and, as it has never rotted, it is still to be seen somewhere about the junction of the Old Crow and the Porcupine Rivers. [collected in 1905 by Mr. Charles Camsell, geologist, of the Geological Survey of Canada.] The Journal of American Folklore, Volume 28 Loucheux Myths by C M Barbeau 1915 The Loucheux: An Athabaskan-speaking First Nations people of Canada and Alaska Native people. They primarily reside in the northwestern subarctic, with communities in the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and northeastern Alaska, largely north of the Arctic Circle
Long Billed Dowitcher
Dowitcher preening.
"Black Forager at Low Tide"
A Common Crow scouring the seaweed for a meal.
Alligator snaping turtle
I had a nice encounter with quite a big one. It was on the Canada #1 green route that run from coast to coast. It was at a stand still with no means to move at all. Bikers would stop to look at it. I choose an angle that shows the dangerous beak and the impressive tail.
Solitary sandpiper
I found the bird in a pretty good looking nature scene.
Colour tones of early spring
I am presenting this picture for those who get a joyful feeling when they look at the composition of soft colour tones at spring season.
Fluffy coat
A Black-capped Chickadee on a very cold winter day has a way to warm his tiny body.
A Quiet Moment in the Canopy
A beautiful Barred Owl keeping watch from a mossy perch.
Jail time
A Red-winged Blackbird in the center of a bush
