Mother’s Eye View
Three blackbird chicks open up, mistaking anything that moves above them for their mother.
Peeking Through
A remote camera catches a blackbird chick waiting for feeding, seen through its mother’s legs.
Tern Return
Common terns check out this season’s nesting options, on the raft in the middle of the trout pond.
Egret Spotlight
A great egret perches on a stump, caught in the spotlight of a late evening sun on Long Pond.
Bumps on a Log
Painted turtles tie the ducklings with a score of five, in the “we can fit more on a log than you” category.
Ducks in a Row
Mallard ducklings prepare to go head to head with the turtles, in the “we can fit more on a log than you” category.
Transitions
A mallard duckling starts to look a bit ratty as its baby fur gives way to adult feathers.
There’s Always One
A mallard duckling tentatively looks back, making sure that mother is still close by.
End of the Road
The breakwall that defines the eastern gap continues to crumble into the inner harbour. Here a lonely bollard awaits its fate, many of its siblings already lying submerged beneath the icy waters.
Big Kahuna
All things must pass: Big Kahuna, the largest geyser to form on Ward’s beach, goes dormant after reaching a height that dwarfed all other ice formations.
Sunset Eruption
Like Old Faithful, a newly-formed geyser on Ward’s beach erupts into a million points of light under the full pressure of an incoming wave.
Icefields
A dormant geyser leaves behind a cave large enough to crawl into, here framing early clouds ushering in a low pressure system that should see temperatures rise by almost 15°C.
Red White and Blue
Amidst a fresh and still undisturbed snowfall, the Gibraltar Point lighthouse stands tall against a cloudless -18°C sky.
Cpt. Tom
A gem from the archives: it’s January 2004, and the temperature has just plummeted by over 20°C. Plastic shatters, pipes burst, and hydraulic lines fail. Without hydraulic pressure, the crew of the Ongiara are unable to raise the Ward’s Island dock, effectively trapping the ferry Island-side. For two hours everything was tried, including something enterprising […]
1830 to the City
The Ongiara streaks to the city at 6:30 P.M., punching through the January ice in this two-minute exposure.
Overflight
A great horned owl wings its way silently over the RCYC’s south island, displaying the fine patterns in its outstretched feathers. An absolutely awesome bird to see in flight.