Category Archives: birds

  Canada Geese are at their most appealing when beige.

  The Osprey is the iconic bird of Kootenay Lake. Indeed, summer often brings 20 to 30 osprey nests on the West Arm of the Lake. So, what better topic for frequent treatment? Here are three shots taken this morning … Continue reading →

  I had my first visit by Killdeer, today. Two of them, actually, but they do not appear in the same picture. The two images below show foraging and flying.

  This morning, I watched copulating hummingbirds. Unfortunately, there are no pictures—which is not a result of my lack of trying. Clearly, things are beginning to happen. Our region has an unusually high diversity of hummingbirds for Canada: three species … Continue reading →

  Two birds visited on the same day. Each was emblematic of its status: one, a model of drabness; the other, the epitome of bling. It says a good deal for the versatility of evolution that each was rather well suited to … Continue reading →

  “Just ignore me, I am merely another one of the yellowish buds of May.” Yellow-rumped Warbler (Last January, I posted a picture of a Pygmy Owl blending in.)

  Last August, I saw my first Eastern Kingbird; last week I saw my first Western Kingbird. With geographically inspired names, one might think that the eastern bird would be found exclusively in eastern North America, and the western, exclusively … Continue reading →

  I photographed my first Rufous Hummingbird of 2013 this morning. It was a male—the sex which has the strikingly iridescent gorget. I attach three pictures of this visitor. The gorget of a hummingbird owes its colour to iridescence. As … Continue reading →

  It’s Monday, so it is lundi. And lo, there it was, floating in the calm of the early morning light.