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The South Saskatchewan River runs through Saskatoon and has a man made weir in the middle of the city. I went there yesterday morning to see if the pelicans were feeding where the water pours over the weir. No pelicans were present but this beaver was walking along the concrete abutment. You...

On the prairies we are anxious for spring to arrive. I'm sure it must be here because I went out this morning, waded through 7" of new snow that fell overnight and saw this patch of 'Snow Drops' in full bloom.

Maybe one in a hundred times that I go birding do all the stars align and I see the bird I was after, it cooperates, the light is good and my camera was set up correctly. This happened yesterday as I was walking through the Slocan Campground while visiting my daughter in Slocan B.C. An American...

While waiting for spring to come these tiny splashes of colour are still possible to find. Moss Some form of Trumpet Lichen that grows on dead logs.

The willows have started to bud here in Slocan B.C.

My granddaughter just returned from 2 months in New Zealand. I dropped her off and about 30 minutes later received a frantic call that there was a giant bug in her luggage. It was a big shiny cockroach that had crawled into her luggage at the house she was visiting in Christchurch. I took it...

The weather has turn to real winter with some lower temperatures, ice and snow. Just out my back door the ice was creating wonderful patterns on the berries and just inside my back door a lingering Boxelder bug was still looking for something.

Sometime ago I seem to remember Eric saying he did not like pure white backgrounds with birds in flight. I totally agree and had an experience the other day that shows this off. I was looking for Trumpeter Swans and noticed two Bald Eagles in a tree some distance away. As I was looking at the...

Trumpeter Swans come to the Slocan River in B.C. to overwinter as the water stays open and there is lots of vegetation for them to eat. It was a great day to see them as I was able to reach the river's edge by advancing out of the forest each time the bird dipped its head under the water to get...

In an effort to squeeze the last bits of colour and growth out of the scene before the white stuff takes over I found these here in Slocan B.C. A family of mushrooms working away at decomposing the forest floor. (This is a 30 image stack). These leaves are stubbornly hanging onto their centre...

One of the joys of fall is finding things that are not typically considered beautiful and trying to set them in an interesting light. The mushroom is tiny...about 1/2" tall and is created with a 30 image photo stack in Helicon Focus and use of photoshop to remove some unwanted foreground. The...

I suspect the Audubon Society will not accept my new name for this species. :p I had never witnessed this behaviour in a Magpie before. It was moving up and down the dying spruce trees in a local park. It would get its beak under some bark and flick it off and search for insects. It looked very...

While in Denmark I noticed almost everywhere I went there was many Orb Weaver spiders. All of the ones I could identify were Cross Orb Weavers. At one point while standing in the living room of my friends home I counted 8 webs with spiders in the centre waiting for a meal. This is a stack of...

On my way to Fanø Island for my bird watching tour we had to cross a ferry in Espjerg harbour. This is a major assembly point for exporting Danish electric generating windmills. Some of the ships are being reconditioned from use as off shore oil drilling rigs to setting up off shore windmill...

This was the first time I have seen and photographed this type of moth. iNaturalist suggests it is a member of the Knot-horned moths of the Subfamily Phycitinae. It has a most unusual covering of the mouth area. Kind of a Santa Clause beard. This is an overall view of the moth's dorsal view.

My granddaughter reported to me that there was a giant spider on the table and she had put a glass over it. I brought it to my water bath with a rock and although it ran into the water a number of times and up my arm as I took it out of the water, it did eventually sit still on the top of the...

This little spider was running around on my floor so I picked it up and put it on a rock I use for spider images. It took maybe 30 minutes of it moving around and then it sat still long enough to get one horizon shot and then two more that were 66 images each. I used Helicon Focus to stack them...

I enjoyed Jim's sign about the sidewalk ending. I saw this sign outside a bookstore in a little town called Ladysmith on Vancouver Island and thought it was worth sharing.

My plant app tells me this is Queen Ann's lace. I thought it had an interesting seed pod or flower.

While wandering the beach near Lanztville B.C. I saw this Double-crested Cormorant swimming and diving. One time it popped up and had a fish in its bill. I think is a Pacific Staghorn Sculpin. It would likely be better as a video but here is a sequence that shows the amazing expanding ability of...