 Above moonshot was last nite September 27th. 97+ % moon rising over Little Shell Isle...  Along with the moon, we currently have a prominent bright object in the SE sky... Above is my first ever image of Saturn. Heavy crop but shot from the Bay!  Sept 26th full moon above!   Photo above from the day before full moon  Eclipse Moon just after it rose above the clouds  Moon gazing from an aircraft ...  I shot hundreds of images over 2 hours of observing and actually got a few decent ones :)        Its often a magical time just before sunrise with colours clear and pastel... Birds are calling, excited to begin yet another beautiful day!
 Definitely a delight .. Last evening we were surprised to see three Orcas splashing by the marker ... It looked as if they were engaged in rounding up salmon or herring to feed on but not sure. The show lasted over 1/2 an hour !   Flights of Sanderlings just appeared this weekend on the Bay .. this signals the fall migration and these beautiful shore birds group together after nesting and head towards their winter habitat.
 Eagle with moon backdrop at the Tyee Club in Campbell River BC  Rhinoceros Auklets skim across the saltwater near Port Hardy BC   Sea Otter swims along a kelp bed  Distant Orcas frolic in the ocean    After many clicks I finally managed to capture a leaping pink salmon
 Oyster Catchers are remarkably cool birds.... The species here on Vancouver Island are all Black with bright orange beaks and pink legs! What a concept! They are very chatty birds and quite social, often gathering in groups, but the pair featured here , seen mating (last week of July at sunup) seemed quite unusual to me. I wonder if they lost their first brood to Eagles and are starting over? Whatever the reason this couple were the bird stars of a recent rowboat camping trip Hope you enjoy the images.... Cheers and all the best... TerryV   A few evenings back there was an abundant flying insect hatch and out of the blue arrived a fleet of NightHawks (15-20) (I hadn't seen these birds around in ages). They are voracious insect eaters and swoop across the evening sky and are able to swiftly find flying insects and with their large trap door beaks, gobble them down! Beautiful , graceful birds with a wide and narrow wingspan of around 20 inches. Hope you enjoy these photos that I was able to click at a distance!   To many of us there is something deeply satisfying and refreshing about a simplistic camp out in a remote place... Nothing but nature surrounding us! A beautiful way to recharge ones joy for life!  The dawn of another beautiful West Coast day!  Harlequin Ducks search for small crabs and other yummy breakfast treats   The look on this Bald Eagle made me wonder if she was plotting something :)  No Ospreys nesting this year at the farm, but this beautiful female flew past and soared high above.  A beautiful male Kestrel landing after a failed attempt to grab a starling    Turkey Vultures gracefully glide across farm sky watching the haying below, hoping to grab a vole...
 Mid June 2017 .. This image was from my first visit to the Nest at the Bay (Sidney BC) where "Little Eagle" ( a retail hawk ended up in an Eagles nest and was raised with their family. "Feeding Baby" was one of my most popular images but I shot 1000's of others over 6 weeks and documented this incredible act of nature.
For more of this event, click Little eagle from the group of pages, or scroll down the side bar to June and July 2017 to view the posts as they occurred. Thank you for looking and God Bless .... TerryV  Some mornings it pays to rise early before the sun... Today was no exception as the morning sky and all the living creatures around the Bay came to life in incredible technicolour! Mount Baker (before sunrise) above looked so pastel and dreamy amidst the orange glow of the promised day! I hope you enjoy these images ... Safe travels and happy trails to everyone... TerryV   Great Blue Heron above reflecting the early rays of sunshine
 Oyster Catchers chatter as they fly erratically around the waterways ( five O C's sound like 25.. very noisy and loud) And look at their paint job!!!   (speaking of cool paint jobs!) Those red feet are crazy!!!! Pigeon Guillemots sit in a nest carved in sandstone cliff   So the blue moon isn't actually ...blue in colour...Its called a blue moon when there are 2 full moons in a calendar month (which just occurred in May) Last nights moonrise over the ocean was quite spectacular and as it rose the moon cast beautiful reflections onto the ocean. Hope you enjoy this sequence... Cheer's. TerryV |
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