Birds
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Ol’ Half-beak
A few times this spring I found myself looking at a Raven near the House and thinking something didn't quite look right, but I never pinned it down. Today I took the opportunity to try and get some Raven photos of some birds that were at a hunk of caribou behind the House. One of
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Birds of the Spring Equinox
One of David Ringer’s, of Search and Serendipity, on-line projects is the on line listing service Birdstack. David is a gifted writer and world traveller, and he’s passionate about birds. Through Birdstack, he’s created the on-going projects for birding on the Equinoxes and Solstices. Here then are reports from around the world about just what
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Ross’s Gull
The past little while has seen me studying up on one of the Arctic's delightful small gulls, Ross's Gull (Rhodostethia rosea). While the Ross's Gulls are known to breed mainly in the Russian Arctic there have been four known breeding sites in North America, one in Churchill Manitoba and three in Nunavut, the most recently
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Edgar Allen Poe likes me.
He really likes me. Well, okay, I know he's dead and all but so is Charles Darwin (and it would have been even cooler to have him say I have "elegant prose", being one of my biggest heroes and all). Okay, whats that look for? Poe and Darwin were just helping pinguinus put up the
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Obligatory Sunday Raven photo
From the drive today, shot from a moving truck. The iceberg in the background was planned was pure luck.
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Coffee, clones, and cartography
I heard of a writer, whose name I don't recall, responding to a question about writer's block something along the line of "You know, my father was a trucker but he never had 'trucker's block'". And I suppose its true to a point, but just like there are days when his father probably rued climbing
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Where the Gyrfalcon isn’t (Conclusion)
Link to Part one After leaving the Gyrfalcon Aerie I headed west towards Admiralty inlet, paralleling the cliffs. I kept one eye on the cliffs, looking for that telltale flash of white against the red rock. As I neared the end of the cliffs I noticed the black stain where the water falls down the
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Where the Gyrfalcon isn’t
Although it is difficult to imagine temperatures in the mid minus twenties as springlike, Friday saw the arrival of the Spring Equinox. The world tilted so the equator was on the same plane as our orbit around the sun, and all the world enjoyed the same photoperiod (briefly). Now as the pole begins to point
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Oysters, and many pearls
Rob Fergus is one of those people who, although we've never met, I count amongst my friends. He is also the energetic blogger behind The Bird Chaser. Rob has put together a rather clammy (sorry) edition of I and the Bird. It must be spring in other parts of the world, because it is incredible
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Ravens at Dead Dog
No, not the Lake, the carcass. Don't worry, I didn't include the dog in the photos.