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Trailing
A short time ago, last week actually, I was out at the Marcil Lake outflow with Leah. We had just seen our first Semi-palmated Plover of the year, and I was walking down the road trying to get some photos of it when two shorebirds flew over head. As they flew by, I fired off…
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A wing and a prayer
Baird's Sandpiper pair, Marcil Lake.
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Nestled in Heather
Saturday we continued to explore outdoors, even though our snowmobile trip out on the land was cut short. Leah had headed to the water lake to fish, so Travis, Hilary and I headed inland to explore. We drove out to Second Bridge, where Lapland Longspurs launched themselves into the air, and floated down filling the…
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Meet the puppies
Nine days old, and starting to venture out, much to our consternation. Here are the fab five.
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Fishing at the water lake
Soon after the river begins to flow in earnest, it opens up the ice at its mouth at Marcil Lake, our water source. That signals that it is time to do some fishing there. As it is but a short distance from town, people get out there frequently to fish, before or as the fish…
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Day tripper
I absolutely love this time of year, by far my favourite time of the year in the Arctic. It's warm in the sun that never sets, travel on the ice is easy, and the birds are here busy trying to cram another breeding season into a short season. Everyone here is trying to cram as…
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I’ve got to start paying more attention.
This evening I was puzzling over a shorebird (more on the shorebird later – I've got dozen's of posts I could write these days), which flashed a white rump when it flushed. The trouble was the photos I took of it all said "Baird's Sandpiper" to me. So I wanted to go back to look…
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My Studio
A portrait of my children taken on a really cool walk today. Cool as in awesome, not as in frigid temperatures.
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Red-throated Loon pair.
Yesterday morning I was awake early, far too early at 5 am. But that is one of the beautiful things about living here in the summer, five am is as bright as noon. So I grabbed my camera and binoculars and headed out to my favourite birding spot this time of year, the outflow at…
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In flight – Long-tailed Ducks
From early this morning, before I went to work.
