Archive for January, 2007

Luck over perseverance?

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Returning today to the shopping mecca of snowy owl sightings was an effort in frustration. Yep, there before dawn with not another soul around - and four and a half hours later of looking, it was time to call it quits. I absolutely hate coming home empty handed after so much […]

First wild Snowy

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Urban wildlife is always a refreshing site, although sometimes a sad one as well as you know these animals are struggling for habitat day in and day out. But today I was fortunate enough to see my first snowy owl in the wild. Strangely enough, it was in a typical […]

Hunting for frozen raindrops

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

Our rather strange January weather produced some interesting conditions today - rain overnight, and then dropping temperatures through the morning caused dripping raindrops to freeze. The tricky part was finding drops that had some interesting structure attached to them. There were a lot of plain branches covered with them, but it […]

Can changing your light bulbs save polar bears?

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

Strange concept to think about huh? Perhaps not completely, but changing your light bulbs in your house actually will help. This is one of the simple things in reducing our electricity bills, along with ALOT of other changes every one of us can do to help ease the tons of […]

New visions, new year

Monday, January 1st, 2007

I have the week off between Christmas and New years from my ‘day job’ and was really hoping to get out and do some shooting. The weather really sucked. Rain, drizzle, dark and drab light. To add to that is my own laziness of just wanting to lay around the house, surf […]