What better place to ponder future possibilities than a wetland awakening to spring’s warm touch? In “Wetland Reflections”, our Photo of the Week, still water keeps new life secret and safe while reflecting the land and sky of Abbotsford’s Ellwood/Fishtrap Creek Nature Park. Our featured photographer, who goes by Pat’s Photos36, has posted a series …
It is world water week, and in honour of this we have selected a photograph that represents the type of wetland western Canadians are most often familiar with. The infrared photograph of Thacker Marsh is a crisp and radiant example of the watery beauty at the confluence of the Fraser and the Coquihalla rivers. Marshes …
Camouflaged into dead leaves and humus, the Western Red-backed Salamander captured in this week's BC Wetlands Photo of the Week could have only been seen by the keen eye of someone looking for those things that crawl in hidden places. Our choice photographer this week, Sean McCann, found this beautiful amphibian in Goldstream Provincial Park …
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A Marsh Wren (Cistothorus palustris, formerly known as the Long-billed Marsh Wren) sits in the drying fall rushes, silent for the moment. Difficult to spot amid low vegetation, it is their bubbly song or sharp call that gives them away. While you've likely seen this little bird straddling dry bull rush or cattail stems and sounding its …
Looking at Connor Stefanison's photograph titled Snowy Owl on Driftwood I am engulfed in a calm and silent amber world, pierced only by the yellow eyes of this fierce and majestic bird. The light indicates a setting sun, the grasses that surround the bird have dried in the cool November air. The Snowy Owl waits …
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