Welcome to this week’s Sunday edition. It’s that time of year when baby birds are crying out from their nests for food food more food and parents tirelessly collect insects, larvae, seed, fish and other prey to satiate their fluffy little offspring. There are plenty of opportunities to watch birds mate, nest, incubate, rear and fledge because Yellowknife is surrounded …
Welcome to woodpecker week. There are a number of woodpecker species that make their home around Yellowknife. Some of them even spend the winters with us. Woodpeckers are hearty little birds who spend much of their time banging their heads against trees. So how do they avoid concussions? Woodpeckers have flexible skulls because of their plate-like bones which help minimize …
A couple of weeks ago I had an exciting moment as a birder; I apparently spotted and recorded the first sighting of an Audubon’s Warbler in the Northwest Territories! The Audubon’s warbler is a sub-species of the Yellow-rumped warbler, the other is the Myrtle warbler, however 40 years ago they were 2 separate species. According to a local bird expert, …
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 …
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 …
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 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 week’s Sunday edition tells the story of the ptarmigan. They are one tough bird. Last winter we had an explosion of ptarmigan. They were everywhere and it seemed as though you couldn’t walk or drive anywhere without finding a cluster of these little snowballs. That’s why it was so odd to come across this one by itself. …
Happy New Year to everyone! Thank you all for your support over the past year. I am grateful for all of your likes, comments and shares and hope that the upcoming year will provide more opportunities to share my love of wildlife. This week I wanted to share some images I took during the Audubon Society’s Annual Christmas Bird Count …