Wildlife
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Bunny Bonanza
The Arctic Hare (Lepus arcticus) population is on a high year this year. For much of the same reasons as people in the south are seeing huge numbers of Snowy Owls this year, the hares enjoyed a good breeding season. With the lemming populations high this past summer predators put much less pressure on the
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How to photograph an Ermine. The importance of sleep.
It is blueberry season up here. The weather has been gorgeous. Those two statements together mean we have spent all of our evenings out picking blueberries, hands down one of Leah's favourite activities. Now, when I say we have been picking blueberries I'm stretching the truth a little, for I've done very little. I've birded
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How TO photograph an Ermine (kind of)
First of all, travel with someone more observant than you, like my wife. Walk quietly until she points out the Ermine to you, mere feet away. Avoid crowds of screaming children. As the Ermine starts to flee "squeak", its curiousity will get the better of it and it will come to try and choose you.
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How NOT to photograph an Ermine
First of all, find the Ermine by watching a scrum of kids chasing something around. Position yourself in a place where you can watch the action, but where you are in no way hidden from the Ermine. Next, pay no attention to your camera settings, or if you do make sure it is set on
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Ursus
We have been barbequing almost nightly here. Well not here really, over in Victor Bay, where everyone goes to get away from the hustle and bustle of Arctic Bay. A tank of propane is expensive here, $150. So when they are available, and when you lay down that cash (when the mine was here a
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Avinga and the avinga
In the early spring, when the Sun has warmed and you can feel its strength, even if the air temperature stays cool, the lemmings emerge from their tunnels under the snow. Before the snow has a chance to glaze into a hard, shiny crust their tracks can often be seen as they go on excursions
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Go ask Alice
Now that the first migrants have begun arriving we tend to get out for a drive almost every night, looking to see who is new to the neighbourhood. Sunday, after seeing the first Canada Goose of the year, we continued on to First Bridge, where this Arctic Hare hunkered down in the lea of a
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I’m late, I’m late
Beautiful drive at lunch yesterday with a somewhat co-operative Arctic Hare posing in the bright warm sun. Here's two photos for you.
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B&W Photographs
After our family outing yesterday, we went for a drive around the neighbourhood. It gave me an opportunity to do some Black and White photography. Black… … and White.