Welcome back friends! This week’s photo story is all about winter wildlife. Here in Yellowknife things get pretty quiet in the winter in terms of wildlife as birds head south and bears hibernate. Animals that remain active and plentiful throughout winter months include red foxes, ptarmigan, and ravens. Once in a while I’ll get really lucky and spot a lynx, …
In the winter, ptarmigan are as common around these parts as seagulls are at the seashore. For a photographer, common means reliable! The Willow Ptarmigan is the largest and most numerous of the three ptarmigan species. Populations are cyclical in nature and there is usually a period of a few years where they are everywhere and then their numbers drop …
Hello and welcome to this week’s photo story. This week I’m sharing some images I got last year during an encounter with my most favourite animal: the coyote. Coyotes are one of the most adaptable animals in Canada and they thrive in urban environments because they take advantage of human complacency. They eat our garbage, scavenge leftover pet food, and …
Welcome back friends! This week I have some great photos from a winter road trip to Fort Providence where I had a chance to shoot some snow and frost-covered bison near the Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary. I learned a little more about the sanctuary during my trip and thought I’d share it with you in this post. The Mackenzie Bison Sanctuary …
Ah Ravens. One of the most cunning animals on the planet and Yellowknife is home to a whole lot of them. The 2017 Christmas Bird count estimated the number of ravens around Yellowknife to be over 2000 birds. In 1973, the year of the first bird count, there were just 300. There are approximately 20,000 people in the City of …
Hello friends! Welcome to this week’s photo story. I’ve had the pleasure of watching this owl pair for a couple of years as they have territory just outside of Yellowknife. Any owl sighting is exciting but having the opportunity to see and photograph a great grey on a fairly predictable schedule is a gift that is indescribable. Just a couple …
Hello friends and followers! This week I wanted to introduce you to this young black bear I had the pleasure of encountering a while back. It’s not common that you see a bear out in the middle of the day along one of the busiest highways outside of Yellowknife. I’m guessing that this was the bear’s first summer foraging on …
This week’s story is about a couple of the coolest places on earth: the salt plains and Grosbeak Lake in Wood Buffalo National Park. Two of the biggest draws to Fort Smith for me are the opportunities for wildlife photography and the chance to visit one of the most unique landscapes in Canada – the salt plains. Wood Buffalo National …
The first time I ever encountered a wolf in the wild was April 28, 2010 – the day I left BC to move to Yellowknife. Sadly, all I had was a crappy 5MP digital camera and little skill. I left early in the morning and saw this beautiful timber wolf who must have JUST killed this deer. She disappeared into …