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The Drake Shake
Part of the adventure about going to Antarctica is getting there. And I'm not talking about the flights all the way down North and South America to Usuahia. Nor the everyday challenges of navigating around countries and customs unfamiliar to you. I'm talking about the somewhat infamous Drake Passage. The Drake Passage is the part…
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Hungry
It isn't often that you (or rather I) get to see predators taking on potential prey larger than them. At least not avian predators. Three years ago, I watched a falcon make a stoop at a Raven out my front window (and with the vagaries of memory I was amazed that it was three years…
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A little piece of Groenland
The vast majority of our icebergs, certainly all of the large ones, come from Groenland. Born in a place like Jacobshaven Fjord, they eventually drift north up the coast of Groenland, and then turn south down the coast of Ellesmere Island. Some find their way here, some keep winding their way south into the Atlantic…
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Beauty
I live in a strikingly beautiful place. There isn't a day that I'm not aware of that, that something doesn't make me pause, look around, awestruck at a scene before me. I can't count the times I've driven back from Victor Bay and the view from the top of the hill down Adam's Sound takes…
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More from last night
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If you were expecting more iceberg pictures, you’d be sadly
right. After not driving to Victor Bay for a day, we went there this evening, and were startled to see that the huge iceberg that had been sitting out at Nuvua was now a mere 200 metres or so offshore in Victor Bay. An amazing sight, in amazing light, and I left the camera at…
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Feeding Time
Don't you just hate having someone looking over your shoulder while you're trying to eat?
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Over here, mushrooms as big as your head.
Two weeks ago I suddenly found myself with unexpected days off (which just as unexpectedly disappeared). So the celebrate I hired someone to babysit and do my cleaning and chores and struck out for a hike. Last year I made several trips out to the canyon where the Peregrine's aerie is, but for various reasons…
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Dip
It's been a strange summer for me in terms of birds in many ways. Birds that I should have seen, for various reasons I haven't. Birds I didn't expect to see, materialized. Birds have shown me some jaw dropping behaviour that I've not seen in the past. And other people are seeing birds, telling me…
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Northern Fulmar (Fulmaris glacialis)
