Steve Williamson Wildlife Photography

The Cape Teal (Anas capensis) is endemic to Africa, where these bright billed birds can be found primarily in the wetlands of the southern half of the continent, but there are also occasional sightings in Ethiopia and a few strong populations in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. In flight these medium sized ducks show a teal green bar on a white wing...

Today’s Friday Flashback is from 22 February 2018 and is entitled ‘Roosevelt Elk‘. I still remember this evening encounter very well – the result of an unexpected brief glimpse out of the corner of my eye as I was travelling home after a day out photographing

Sciurus – the genus of ‘tree dwelling’ squirrels. I hadn’t given it much consideration really, but I was surprised to learn that worldwide there are at least 28 sub-species of squirrel that live in trees. Some regions, including the poles, the southern end of South America and Australasia do not have any Sciurus residents. In North America, as we’ve seen before, you can ...

Today’s Friday Flashback is from 7th May 2018 and is entitled ‘Always Great To See Them‘. The title says it all really! This flashback tells of my anticipated return to the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Bear Sanctuary on the BC coast.

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On first viewing, without any other information such as geographical location you could easily think this is a North American bald eagle, but the African fish eagle is a completely separate species of eagle and as each of their names show, is from a completely different continent. Whilst separately they may look similar, if these two fish eating cousins were seen side by...