Salad Bar
A mute swan feeds her cygnets by pulling up vegetable matter from the depths, like a floating salad bar.
Size Differential
A mute swan and her cygnet near the Toronto Island Marina show just how much size difference there is between children and parents.
Nest Watching II
A mute swan mother sits on a prime nesting site on Long Pond in 2007, rendered uninhabitable in 2008 due to high water levels.
Nest Watching
A Canada Goose mother sits on a prime nesting site near Doughnut Island in 2007, rendered uninhabitable in 2008 due to high water levels.
Egret Flight
A great egret displays its fine wingtip feathers as it takes flight near Doughnut Island. Tagged as a b-roll shot, the angles in this photograph just didn’t come together.
Egret Ruffle
A great egret shows off its ability to stand every feather on end after swallowing a fish near Snake Island. Tagged as a b-roll photograph, this was taken far too late in the evening for any decent sort of light.
Surface Tension
An eastern fox snake reflected perfectly in the calm waters of a high pressure system. Tagged as related, this fellow was photographed just south of Parry Sound. Eastern fox snakes aren’t found this far south, it’s just a shot that’s so cool I had to share.
Bearline Airforce II
A mass hatching of dragonflies find solace on my foodline. Tagged as related, these were photographed in the Bouchier Islands in Georgian Bay, south of the Norgate Inlet.
Loondrop
Although extremely rare on the Island, loons can be seen migrating through — hearing their haunting call in Long Pond is a beautiful thing. Tagged as related, this loon was photographed near Parry Sound.
Fledgling Fuzz
A cormorant chick, now covered in fuzz, waits alone in its nest for its parents to return with lunch. This cormorant was actually photographed on a small offshore island in Georgian Bay, south of Byng Inlet, and is tagged as related since we host thousands of them every season.
Eyes of Coal
A melanistic garter snake pokes its head up through the leaf litter, its jet-black eye reflecting the photographer and surroundings.
Gimpy Returns 2008
A three-and-a-half legged turtle first photographed in 2006, surfaces again in 2008 in a different body of water, connected briefly during the high-water mark in spring. In 2006 I wasn’t sure how this fellow would do in our environment, happily it seems to be doing just fine. Tagged as a b-roll shot, focus and lighting […]
Gimpy 2006
A three-legged painted turtle basks on a log in 2006 near Hanlan’s Point. What happened to this fellow’s front-right leg is still a mystery, but subsequent sightings in later years confirm that, despite the missing leg, it’s doing just fine.
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
Minimum Focus Distance
A mute swan tests the minimum focus distance of the Canon EF 300mm f/4.0 L IS lens, proving that telephoto lenses can be too long for bird photography.
Watchful Eye
A nesting mute swan keeps absolute focus on the photographer interloper, eyes locked and never straying from the lens.
Blazing Buns
A goose sits on her nest in an unlikely location: right beside the railroad tracks on Centre Island, trainloads of tourists passing within two feet every few minutes.
Babe in the Grass II
Another deliciously cute canada goose gosling sits on the grasses of Centre Island.