Snippets of Nature

18/09/2024

The Caledon Hills Bruce Trail Club will be celebrating Bruce Trail Day with a variety of activities at the Bruce Trail Conservancy's Riverside Woods Nature Reserve on the 1st Line E. of Mono, just north of Island Lake. Come join us on October 6th. Lots of free parking, beautiful trails and activities for everyone.

12/08/2024

In late spring and summer when trees leaf out and birds are more difficult to photograph, I turn much of my attention to photographing butterflies. I’m amazed at the diversity of butterfly species that can be found in this area. According to Ontario Nature, more than one hundred species of butterf...

04/05/2024

Spring is the time when male birds moult into their breeding plumage and engage in courtship behaviours. In the photo above, this colourful male yellow-bellied sapsucker is drumming on a wire fence. Why drum on a wire fence? The sound produced from striking metal carries much further than on wood an...

02/03/2024

You really can tell when you’re an avid birder and nature enthusiast when you spend hours and hours outdoors in freezing temperatures appreciating and photographing wildlife. Winter gives us an opportunity to observe some of our common year-round residents like Chickadees, Bluejays and Cardinals i...

18/11/2023

One of the joys of wildlife photography is observing and photographing animal behaviours. I particularly love recording the interaction between mothers and their offspring. Young animals in the wild are extremely vulnerable to a range of dangers including predation by other animals, the elements, an...

10/10/2023

Learn how to create beautiful abstract images using reflections in ponds and lakes. Natures Paintbrush is my latest article in Picture Pathway - Life in Pictures.

During late summer and early autumn, I like to try my hand at a bit of abstract photography. The array of autumn colour combined with the distortion of shapes and lines in ponds and lake reflections can lead to some pleasing results especially when you photograph imperfect surfaces. I look for surfa...

11/08/2023

There was a time when I wouldn’t have considered a desert landscape very remarkable. That all changed in 2018 when as part of a trip to South Africa and Namibia, I visited the Namib Desert. At more than forty million years old, the Namib is the oldest and driest desert in the world, its only… R...

31/07/2023

11/07/2023

Sandhill Crane family near Long Point.
Plumage of Sandhill Cranes is normally grey, but in summer the feathers turn a rusty colour because the birds preen themselves by rubbing mud from iron rich soils on their feathers. This can help with camouflage during the nesting season.