Well, here’s another Monday morning smiler, just to help get the week off to a good start! This is a closeup portrait of a young male Steller sea lion photographed on the BC coast off Vancouver Island. These North Pacific residents have now been designated as ‘near-threatened’ by conservationists (IUCN) for 10 years, but what does that exactly mean? Initially your guess ...

I remember this location well – I had been fortunate to spend a week there, watching bears, brown and black coming and going feeding on the pink salmon which were running at a great rate at the time. The log which this bear is standing on was a regular pathway for the bears up and down the rocky hillside from the river. This little black bear had been going up the log wh...

I was pleasantly surprised when I spotted for the first time this Little Bittern (Botaurus minutus) whilst visiting a nature area in the Algarve region of Portugal early last spring. Even during the height of their season they’re tough to spot creeping through their prime habitat of marshland and reeds, but when I saw him it was right on the cusp of spring and he must ha...

Here we see a shot of a beaver just as it pushes off for a swim on a BC lake – creating a nice bow wave as it does so. North American beavers are actually a little bit larger than their European cousins of the same name, but at some 40kgs lighter, come in a distant second to the South American Capybara for the crown of ‘largest rodent’ in the world. Regardless of their s...

I would often see these little guys flying around towards the late summer/early days of fall, but could never find one staying still long enough to get a photo, until recently that is! On a blustery day this Vapourer Moth (Orgyia antiqua) took some brief refuge from the wind in a nearby gutter – quickly reaching for my camera with a macro lens attached, I climbed up and ...