This week I thought we’d look at the incredible arctic tern. Terns travel farther than any other animals during their annual migration. Birds breeding in North Atlantic regions travel about miles round trip every year during their 30-year lifespan. Their lifetime travel is equivalent to three round trips to the moon!! Arctic terns often fly thousands of miles out of …
Happy Mother’s Day! I thought it might be fun to have a look at some wild moms (and dads) this week to celebrate the roller-coaster ride that is parenthood. It’s easy to love the eggs. They don’t talk, don’t need to be fed or chased down. You can abandon them for short periods of time without other moms judging. Once …
Welcome to May! Snow buntings are fun little birds to watch if you have a good pair of binoculars. They are quite timid and will fly away the second you get close to them but sometimes if you are patient they will return to the area and you can get close enough for a few photos. Someone once described snow …
How long has it been since I posted photos of Yellowknife foxes? A few weeks at least! We had some beautiful (if intermittent) weather in April and I took full advantage to check in on the local foxes to see how they were making out after the long hard winter. It took a little bit of hanging about for the …
Welcome to another Sunday Edition of Wildknife Photo. Eagles are the first birds to return to Yellowknife in the spring. I use the term spring loosely here because it’s still -20ºC and everything is frozen. Eagles are usually first sighted at the landfill at the end of March or beginning of April. They are a sure sign warmer temperatures are …
Happy Sunday! I was really hoping to be able to share some fantastic snowy owl photos with you from my recent trip to Alberta but things didn’t work out the way I’d hoped. I did see a couple of chickadees and a lot of geese headed north but I didn’t see any owls. The one thing I did spot was …
Happy Sunday and welcome to April! The sun is getting warmer, the snow is beginning to melt and soon we’ll start seeing the first waves of migrating birds returning to the Boreal forest. This week’s story is a tribute to one of the first signs that summer is on its way: gulls. Yellowknife is home to at least five species …
Hello friends! It’s been a pretty cold winter this year and we’ve had our share of days below -40C. Usually it is around this time of year that I start to see owls appear along the edges of the roads perched atop telephone poles or gliding along ditches in search of prey. I have a theory about why they seem …
Welcome back! This Sunday I’m sharing my favourite story from my trip to the Khuzeymateen. I mentioned last week that I had an opportunity to see a mother bear and her cub every day of my trip. It was nice to be able to readily identify an individual and have them feel familiar in such a short amount of time. …
March is the perfect time to plan a vacation. What is better than planning a beach vacation? Planning a wildlife photo adventure of course! This is the first of a two part post about my first wildlife photo adventure. To celebrate my 40th birthday, I took a solo travel adventure to photograph grizzly bears in their natural habitat in a …