| Fireweed is often one of the first plants to colonize a burn zone. They sprout many sweet smelling flowers and they're a favourite with honey bees and apiarists. |
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This is a wood frog first thing in the spring. These frogs don't spend as much time in the water as most do but they need to keep themselves moist. Consequently they live in damp places. As with any amphibian, they have to have water to breed so they're the first to start calling and laying eggs in temporary pools in the spring. |
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My wife Shelagh spotted these goats at the Twin Falls campsite on the Iceline trail in Yoho. This campsite sits just below the treeline and they hung around for quite a while. When you're in the mountains you see quite a few of the sheep but you don't see the goats as often. Apparently they're not as inclined to come down for the highlands. |
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I'm not going to go into detail as to how I got this shot. The one thing I will say is that taking it was easy but setting up was hard. |
| Once again, this shot was taken from the bottom of a floating canoe with a long lens set up on a small tripod. |
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According to the prof I had for higher invertebrate zoology this is a may fly and not a fish fly as many people call it. They live as aquatic larva for up to three years then emerge as adults that last for three days. They don't even have mouthparts because their only purpose is mating. |
| I found this fellow down by the Red River close to downtown Winnipeg. There was something wrong with his foot so I managed to catch him and take him to a wildlife rehabilitation expert. The last time I saw him he was sitting on top of half a rat and looking very pleased with himself. He was obviously on the mend. |
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For all the press lions, tigers and bears (OH MY!) get, spiders have to be among the most effective predators. For every niche there's a different spider to fill it. |
| This is a Columbia Ground Squirrel up at the summit of Roger's Pass in British Columbia. Because of the amounts of snow there these guys have a short summer season so they're obsessed with two things. One is eating and they become awful mooches in the campgrounds. |
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Takekkaw Falls in Yoho may be one of Canada's best known hanging glaciers. This comes about when you have a small valley emptying into a much larger one. This is an unusual angle for a photo of Takekkaw Falls because most people see it from below. This is about half a day's march up the Iceline Trail. |