Shaken, Not Stirred
Like an olive in a martini, a beaver floats in a hole kept open in the ice off of the RCYC’s south island in the winter of 2009.
Chew Baby Chew (audio)
[audio:Chew-baby-chew.mp3] If a beaver chews on branches and there’s nobody to hear, does it make a sound? As it turns out, yes it does (265KB MP3). Note: if the audio player doesn’t appear, click the title (Chew Baby Chew) to view the actual post.
Minklight
A late-season mink roams the shoreline of Centre Island. When they’re wet, they look positively vicious. When they’re dry, they look remarkably cute.
Conversations (audio)
[audio:9870-Conversations.mp3] The lonely call of a Toronto Island coyote on a still November night (919KB MP3). Note: if the audio player doesn’t appear, click the title (Conversations) to view the actual post.
Wile E I and II
A late twilight, and unfortunately distant, encounter with a resident Toronto Island coyote who wasn’t very happy with the human interloper on its turf. These are thoroughly tagged as b-roll shots, it was far too late in the evening for any sort of useable light. Still, it isn’t every day that you kayak past a […]
Dynamic Duo
A lovely muskrat couple hoover back zebra mussels as fast as they can, on a “feeding platform” in Snug harbour. In the spring and fall (it’s usually frozen solid in the winter) when the waters clear (in summer the waters warm up and are full of algae and weeds), you can see mounds of zebra […]
High ISO Cutie
Testing the limits of Canon’s 5DmkII high-ISO performance, ISO 25,600 captures a baby racoon in the dark hollow of a willow tree 45 minutes after sunset. Not useful for print or colour work, it is an interesting look into sensor technology to come.
Healthy Teeth
Beautiful dental work: up close and personal with a red fox, yawning from an afternoon nap in the sunlit snow.
Entrail Spaghetti
A juvenile racoon, in fact this fellow, sucks back a tasty morsel from a long-dead carp near the IYC as if it were designer Italian pasta.
Seafood Snack
A juvenile racoon enjoys a sunset snack on a long-dead carp (and I do mean long-dead, the stench was overwhelming) near the IYC.
Cats 1, Foxes 0
Putting to rest some of the fox controversy within the community: Ginger the cat goes after the fox. Ginger seemed genuinely curious, but the fox wouldn’t have any of it, and actually ran away. Cats 1, Foxes 0. Island cats rule.
Canadian Hero
A true Canadian hero: a beaver, doing what it does best, hauls a branch out of the Ward’s dunes through a winter blizzard, back to the water where it will swim with it through the breaking surf to its lodge. Absolutely epic, for the amount of nutrition that the underbark of dogwood contains. This is […]
Canadian Hero II
A Canadian epic: a Toronto Island beaver hauls its catch through winter storm surge off of Ward’s Beach in the late January twilight. A definite B-roll shot, this is only of interest within the context of this photograph.
Black Ice Reds
A gorgeous red fox steps into the sidelight on the hockey rink off of Algonquin Island, trademark reds on fine display on the black ice.
Stunning Reds
An absolutely stunning red fox poses on the disc golf course, showing off its trademark tail that’s almost as long as its body.
Waterline
A beaver swims in the reflected colours of June, keeping its nose just above its own bow wake.
Lagoon Snack II
A beaver has a floating snack of a tuber of some sort in the waters off of Doughnut Island
Proof of Concept
Hot on the heels of their newfound popularity from the front-page Toronto Star article, a curious Toronto Island mink checks out the experimental IceCam, underwater and under the ice near Snug Harbour. A terrible photograph by any stretch of the imagination, there isn’t much light down there, but an interesting portrait of our furry little […]
Nightmare on Mink St.
The carnivorous teeth of a mink skull discovered in the Sans Souci area of Georgian Bay.
