Local Wildlife Offer Photographic Opportunities
Last weekend I camped in Killarney Provincial Park for the fourth time this autumn. As I sat at my campfire reading a book I looked up to see a sky pretty much unpolluted by light. …
Special Moments With Two Coyote Pups
Wildlife photographers understand there are times when you come home empty-handed despite spending hours looking for great subjects to photograph. It can be disappointing especially if the streak lasts for some time. Still, you have …
Great Egrets Offer A Great Experience!
It has been a somewhat frustrating month of photography. I have spent lots of time outdoors but on many occasions I have come home without making a single picture. On the weekend I was up …
Red-tailed Hawk Successful Hunt!
My last few photography outings have been focused on finding the coyote family I wrote about last week. Looking in the fields near where they were denning has yielded no results, sadly. Maybe they have …
Adorable Coyote Pups!
Last winter I spotted coyotes several times in farmers’ fields just south of my home in Cambridge, Ontario. On one occasion there was an adult pair snooping around a barn so, after taking a few …
Up Close With Nature!
Last year I bought a teleconverter to use with my Nikon 500mm prime lens. To non-photographers that’s a device which extends my 500mm lens by 1.4x effectively turning it into a 700mm lens. When I first …
Blue Herons Are Violent Predators
After another tremendous winter of snowy owl photography I’ve been staying relatively close to home and following the progress of two pairs of nesting sandhill cranes and, more recently, a single blue heron. This heron …
Sandhill Cranes Return to Southern Ontario
Spring has arrived in Southern Ontario and that means many bird species have returned from their winter sites to nest. The distinctive trumpeting sound of sandhill cranes can be heard all over the area and I have …
Never Too Young To Learn!
Everyone loves snowy owls, it seems. All ages! A week ago I followed through on an invitation from Ms. Rebecca Diemert, a kindergarten teacher at Canadian Martyrs Catholic Elementary School in Kitchener, Ontario, to speak …
Predators: Life In The Wild
Predators exist at all levels of the food chain. Over the past decade I have been extremely fortunate to encounter many incredible species across the planet including some of the most efficient predators. I am …