Welcome back! This week I wanted to share some photos of one of my favourite summer birds, the yellow warbler. It doesn’t feel like summer until I hear the males singing out their sweet whistling song. Honestly sometimes summer is most often still a few weeks off as Yellow warblers arrive in Yellowknife before the leaves emerge on the trees! …
Welcome! This week I wanted to introduce you to a pretty rare visitor around Yellowknife, the Ruddy duck. This species is one of the smaller uduck species, being a little larger than Buffleheads but smaller than Common Goldeneye. This probably doesn’t help if you don’t have a good understanding od the different sizes of ducks. Buffleheads and Green-Winged Teals are …
I had the pure dumb luck to stumble across a pair of these raptors in the throes of courtship. I followed their “singing” and spotted them in a dense part of a forest that surrounds a lake. Sharp-shinned Hawks prey mostly on small birds including songbirds like sparrows and warblers and their nestlings, small shorebirds, quail, and doves. …
I had a wonderful opportunity to watch and photograph a pair of Sandhill Cranes at a local lake inside Yellowknife city limits. I’ve seen Sandhills numerous times but I have never seen their mating performances! These large birds can dance and leap with the best of them! Sandhill Cranes mate for life, and choose their partners based on dancing …
This week I’m sharing some pictures of a Le Conte’s Sparrow, one of my favourites. The only time I have seen them in the NWT (up until last week) was in Fort Smith. This year I spotted them near the Yellowknife airport and had a chance to spend a bit of time with this one in particular. The …
Hello and welcome back! I hope that the new format isn’t too big of a change. It was getting very difficult to create new posts in a space the size of a postage stamp. After much frustration I decided to write my content on my website where I have lost of room to read over my post and review the …
Terns are one of my favourite birds to photograph in large part because they are such a challenge. They are very fast flyers and very aggressive when defending their young. This summer I wanted to challenge myself to capture some images of adults feeding their young. There is one particular rock in a local lake where the terns usually nest …
This week I have some baby birds photos from the past summer. I hope to get a few more images of ducklings and juvenile birds as they migrate through Yellowknife to their southern wintering grounds. On of my favourite young birds to photograph is the tern. They are a challenge not only because they are decently camouflaged against the …
This week I have some images of Cliff swallows taken out by Cameron River. Swallows are fast and very difficult to photograph in my opinion, so the best chance I had of getting some shots was to find a place where they actually stopped and sat “still” if only for a moment. Luckily, they like to nest underneath man …
This week I’m sharing a few images of a small warbler that spends its summer almost exclusively in Canada: the Palm Warbler. I’m always delighted when I find one (or one finds me) as they are curious and friendly and often stick around for a few photos before getting back to it. One way you can recognize them is their …