Steve Williamson Wildlife Photography

The edges of some Vancouver Island river systems are protected from collapse by quarried boulders and this in turn makes for a great fishing platform for local wildlife. Here we see a black bear taking advantage of some of the rocks whilst watching to see the start of the local salmon run. The bear didn’t have to wait or watch for long – the pink salmon run was well unde...

The common Rock Thrush(Monticola saxatilis) can be found in parts of Africa, across Asia and in Southern Europe and is sometimes also known as the rufous-tailed rock thrush. This bird here is either an immature, a non-breeding male or a female. I know that just about covers everything, but the breeding males can be quite striking in appearance with a slate blue head and ...

You would not be wrong if you came across this fungi on a trail in southern Europe and thought you’d found a ‘truffle’. I certainly did when I first saw it and although one of its several names is Bohemian truffle, it’s more common name is ‘Dyeball or Earthball Fungus’ (Pisolithus arrhizus). Unlike real truffles, this fungi should not be ingested at all – the only food a...

Here we see a couple of shots of a young female grizzly bear ‘on a mission’, making her way along the shoreline of the Khutzeymateen inlet on the BC coast. We’ve seen her a couple of times now and she was affectionately known as ‘honey’ due to the colouration of her coat and her mission in this sequence of shots was to head to one of her favourite feeding locations as ta...

Here we see a couple of shots of a Little Egret (Egretta garzetta) – one fishing for a mighty morsel in a tidal pool and one flying low over and reflecting nicely off of one of the salinas in Aveiro, Portugal. Although ‘little’ by name this species of egret is not the smallest of the family name, that honour belongs to the cattle egret, which is slightly smaller by a cen...