Close To Nature - Pictures Animal Hibernation Bird and Animal Migration Chinooks High and Low Tide, Waves and the Sandy Seashore Mating Season and Bird Nesting Muskeg Northern Lights Prairie Thunderstorm Mating Seasons and Bird Nesting Rainy Season on the West & East Coasts Salmon Run Spring Melt and Spring Runoff The Fall of the Leaf and the Autumn Harvest Whirlwind or Dust Devil
Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel Hibernating (taxidermy)
Migrating Shore Birds on the shore of Reed Lake, Saskatchewan
Chinook Clouds at Sunrise
Chinook Cloudiness
Waves on Strait of Georgia shore
Rocky Seashore (Strait of Georgia, BC)
Waves at Long Beach - Pacific Rim National Park, B.C.
Long Beach, Pacific Rim National Park, B.C.
Muskeg - Labrador Tea and Black Spruce
Muskeg about 50 miles South of Fort McMurray, Alberta near highway # 881
Prairie Thundershower
Prairie Thunderstorm
Black Cottonwood Struck By Lightning
The lightning just blew off the thick bark. Pieces of bark exploded out to a maximum of 100 feet from the lightning strike. You can see in this picture pieces of bark far from the tree. Some of the pieces were charred a bit - indicating that some were on fire for a time. They did not burn well since the bark was green. Lightning is a very powerful force of nature, and should be respected. It would be wise to take shelter when one of these storms approaches.
Grasshoppers Mating
Cougars Mating
Cow in heat - jumping on bull
Bull and cow mating
Black Birds engaged in a courtship ritual.
Swan Nesting
Coot Nesting
Coot's Nest and Eggs
Bank swallow gathering nesting material in the spring
Duck nest with un-hatched eggs.
West Coast Rainy Season
Salmon Run - dead salmon washed up on shore of Shuswap Lake B.C.
After spawning the Salmon die.
Salmon spawning in Perry River, BC - not too far west of Sicamous
Perry River, BC
The Fall of the Leaf
Big Leaf Maple Leaves in Fall, Stanley Park, BC
Autumn Harvest
Whirlwind over a gravel pit on a hot summer day.
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This black cottonwood was struck by lightning. It was a healthy tree with
very thick bark. The bark was very, very solid, and there was no rot in the
bark.
When
cougars mate the whole neighbourhood hears about it - literally. 
