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One from a few weeks back - thankfully, it is starting to fully look like spring int the BC Central Interior these days...
2006 early September, Prince George, B.C.
I was waiting for 7 decades to be able to take a picture like this one.
Sorry - this one is a little graphic.
While out yesterday evening I came upon this adult Bald Eagle returning to an open perch with an American Wigeon in his talons. The sheer size difference between the two species struck me as quite remarkable - the wigeon was just a "big handful" to the eagle. The eagle then proceeded to consume the entire duck (and I do mean the entire duck - apart from some feathers it all went down the hatch...) over the next 30 or 40 minutes while a few opportunistic crows waited in the wings should anything get dropped...
Last week we had an invasion of Western Tanagers and Wilson's Warblers - here's a male Wilson's Warbler taking flight
I see a lot of Short-eared Owls in the fields around Prince George, but it is rare I get to see them in direct sunlight!
Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights over the Crooked River. The shot is a long exposure on a particularly dark night and I was happy to capture my first high altitude blue/purple aurora. The blue/purple fringe on the top comes from the interaction of the solar wind with hydrogen and helium in the ionosphere. Below that is the band of red or blood aurora that forms around 250 – 500 km from high energy state excited oxygen atoms emitting light at 630 nm. The bottom layer is the more typically seen green aurora that forms between 100 – 250 km by excited oxygen atoms emitting light at 557.7 nano-metres.
The green band in this shot here actually has a yellowish tinge as we are looking at the auroral oval from a long way away. This happens due to the shallow angle of observation causing the green and red bands to overlap generating a dirty green or yellow rather than the vivid green you see with overhead auroras. At the lower edge of the curtain (below 100km), the density of molecules doesn't permit oxygen to emit light. It is however possible to see a low altitude fringe of blue or red below the green oxygen layer that comes from Nitrogen atoms either in its ionised or excited states respectively. This is not present in this photo and is typically only seen at very high latitudes when standing under a powerful overhead aurora. The Crooked River sits at 54 degrees North in Northern British Columbia.
Sometimes you don't need words. Brothers having some time together at their new home. Ness Lake, British Columbia, Canada
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One of a flock of about 60 Bohemian Waxwings ( Bombycilla garrulus ) that swarmed this Mountain Ash tree.
Prince George, BC, January 3, 2010.
Lots of Short-eared Owls around Prince George these days - I found 10 of them around the airport last weekend!
at the junction of two counties, a bold symbol of transformation created by talented out-of-school youth. june 17, 2008
Cottonwood trees are along the bank of the Fraser River is at the Huble Homestead Historic Site, 45 km north of Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.
1 Kings 8:37 “The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.”
An artist, busking at the Prince George Farmers' Market.
From the Worldwide Photo Walk.
Prince George, British Columbia, Canada
For all the astrophotographers and night sky enthusiasts out there I suggest you check out Bea Gallardo-Lacourt’s new paper “On the Origin of STEVE: Particle Precipitation or Ionospheric Skyglow?”. So we now know that while Steve accompanies an aurora, it is not actually formed by the same mechanism of particles raining down into the ionosphere. The paper suggests that Steve is an entirely new phenomenon distinct from typical auroras, as the POES-17 satellite detected no charged particles impacting with the ionosphere during the Steve event which was studied. This means that is likely produced by an entirely different yet unknown mechanism they call “skyglow”. The skyglow is somehow related to the band of fast-moving ions and super-hot electrons passing through the ionosphere right where Steve was observed. I took this shot of Steve over Circle Lake in Eskers Provincial Park. It was a very dark night so you can see some skyglow in the sky along with some green from the Aurora Borealis in the North to the right of frame. Northern British Columbia, Canada. Love Life, Love Photography .
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I had no idea that the city I grew up in over 45 years ago would have streets looking this nice. (Captured with LGG6 during morning walk) #princegeorge #lgg6photography #beautifulstreets #fitnessmotivation #fitness #walkingforfitness
Somethong about calling out chic a dee dee dee seems to attract the Chicadees at Cottonwood Island in Prince George BC.
I was going through some older photos that I hadn't posted yet and found this one. I posted a similar one a few ago.
Thanks in advance for any and all comments.
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This fellow's unique appearance caught my eye.
Quick chat...
Me: You have a great look.
Him: (to the young lady with him) See! I told you so
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A unique rainforest lying 1000 kms from the ocean near Prince George, BC. Plant biologists estimate the trees to be between 1,000 and 2,000 years old. These trees, cedars mostly, have massive trunks up to 16 metres in circumference, upper limbs that reach for the sun's rays, and lower limbs draped in moss.
The boardwalk was constructed to allow people with mobility issues to experience the forest.