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Animal Obsessed Travel Blogger
41 Countries, 27 years old

06/27/2022

Just got home last night from doing a birthday weekend getaway through the Okanagan. We did many stops, but the view of the Milkyway at night where we stayed in a glamping dome on a ridge in Westbridge was an unbelievable highlight. With so little artificial light around the stars were so bright that you could easily see the milkyway with the naked eye. While we were watching the stars there were also nighthawks circling the dome where we were glamping, they were doing incredible boom displays and sometimes flying within just feet of our faces. This photo is a single shot, long exposure of 20 seconds. I will post a video of the panorama of where this photo was taken in my story.

Taken in Westbridge, BC on June 25th, 2022

06/05/2022

Exciting bird today at Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver. This scarlet tanager is a first ever for Vancouver, and 4th record for BC! And how gorgeous is this male? He was associating with a flock of western tanagers, so maybe he got lost on migration and followed the wrong flock!

05/13/2022

I've just come home from my first international trip since the pandemic, and my first time back to the UK in 9 years. I had a great time on this trip with my dad to visit family, do a bit of work, visit some friends, and of course plenty of birding! I finished off the trip in London to do some sightseeing, it was great to see some of the iconic sites with a good camera this time! Pictured here is the iconic Tower Bridge, which is near the Tower of London. Construction on the bridge began in 1886 and as you can see in the second photo (this one just taken with my phone) it is able to raise the center portion of the bridge in order for tall boats to pass.

10/13/2021

This mountain bluebird so cooperative and fun to watch. He was very successfully hunting, grabbing crickets off the ground and catching flies on the wing. So lucky to have him stop by on his fall migration.

Taken on October 8th in Surrey, BC.

09/18/2021

On this rainy day I find myself daydreaming of being able to go on a trip, while also looking at photos from my last big trip. Here is one I thought you would all enjoy. This photo is a black-browed albatross, one of 4 seen on my Beagle Channel cruise out of Ushuaia, Argentina. I love the way their plumage gives them a stern look to their face. Black-browed albatross have an incredible wingspan of 2-2.5 meters (7-8 feet)! It is not often you see a bird with a wingspan longer than you are tall! One of my highlights of this cruise for sure, which also featured two species of penguin, and much more. I still have the wandering albatross, the bird with the largest wingspan of all, on my bucket list! I think one day I will have to return to Ushuaia to begin a trip to Antarctica.

Taken in the Beagle Channel in Argentina on November 15th, 2019.

09/14/2021

With 272 species having come through the Vancouver area this year already I find there are many that are popular and well photographed, while others are under appreciated. This Sunday I spent quite some time at Boundary Bay surrounded by a few dozen American pipits taking photos and doing an audio recording. I think they are quite beautiful, and there is nothing more calming than listening to bird songs at the beach

Taken on September 12th, in Delta, BC, Canada.

09/08/2021

It's shorebird migration time, which is generally very exciting for the abundant wildlife and possibility of rare species being sighted, but overall not thrilling for photography with most subjects being small and quite distant. Peregrine falcons and other falcons are a birder's nemesis when trying to identify shorebirds as they have a tendency to chase off the entire flock in pursuit of their next meal... They do however make beautiful photo subjects in between dive bomb attempts.

Taken on August 17th in Delta, BC, Canada.

08/04/2021

Muskrats are one of my favourite local mammals. They don't get enough love because they don't have the fun flat-tail that beavers have, but I think their small size and gentle personalities more than make up for it. In the spring I was out for a walk with my dog and my family, and had to stay behind for a bit to take a video of this cutie as it was munching away.

Sorry for the shakey-cam, I still need to get a gimbal stabiliser that can handle my super telephoto lens, but I hope you enjoy this calming moment with the muskrat regardless!

Recorded on April 1st in Langley, BC, Canada.

07/14/2021

I think greater white-fronted geese are one of our most underrated birds, how can you get much cuter than a goose feeding in a field of daisies? Of the geese that we get yearly in Vancouver, the greater white-fronted goose is the least common, as they are usually only seen during migration, with a chance of a small population staying over the winter. The majority of the population overwinters in Mexico, California, and some of the Southern states before making a long migration to breed in the Arctic. Clearly daisies are good fuel for a long migration!

Taken on May 8th in Vancouver, BC.

07/10/2021

So happy I managed to get to this gorgeous American Avocet just as the sun was setting on Wednesday, another lifer for the year! Avocets are a large shore bird with many distinctive features including a very upturned bill, orange-y head and neck during breeding season, and blue legs. It was a lot of fun watching this one feed on biofilm along the edges of a small pond, every once in a while getting startled by baby ducks and leaping into the air. Avocets are rarely seen in Vancouver, as there is only a small breeding population in the Okanagan, with the majority of the breeding population in Canada occuring in the prairies, so having this one in Vancouver for just a few hours was a real treat! I'm still working on the rest of my photos, but hope to post a video eventually as well.

Taken on July 7th in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

06/26/2021

Part of what has kept me so engaged and obsessed with birding is the same reason I have been so passionate about travel all my life... There is always something new and unexpected just around the corner. Last Friday this male Magnolia warbler showed up in Vancouver, only the 5th record ever for the species in Metro Vancouver. I was so lucky that it stayed until the evening so that I was able to come see it after work. These gorgeous birds breed in the Peace region in the Northeast corner of British Columbia, but as they are a largely east coast bird their migration path rarely brings them through this part of the province.

Taken June 18th in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

06/02/2021

This wandering tattler is another one of my favourite sightings this year because of the contrast from my terrible views last year. Not only was my view last year fleeting, but it was also incredibly distant.. Redemption! This year's view was much closer, extended, and even in breeding plumage. I got to watch it for a while feeding at the edge of the rocky shore, and then it was even bouncing it's butt up and down as it moved! Wandering tattlers are an incredibly hard bird to view in Vancouver. It is even harder to see in breeding plumage, because they breed far north in Alaska, Eastern Siberia, and the Yukon. We then usually get sittings as they are making their long journey to their wintering grounds on the West coast of Central and South America, but also as far as Australia and other South Pacific Islands. Needless to say, a real treat!

Taken May 29th in Richmond, BC, Canada.

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