Barn Owls

This gallery contains 5 photos. For nature lovers, the sight of a Barn Owl evokes adjectives of cute, gentle, and serene. When you have big black orbs of eyes in a

Great Horned Owl

This gallery contains 4 photos. On a rainy and overcast November 13, our backyard was graced with the presence of a sleepy female Great Horned Owl. I have heard owls in the night, but

Northern Pygmy Owl

This gallery contains 4 photos. The one bird I especially hoped to see over the BC Family Day 2016 long weekend was one I almost missed — and then the crowd of birders and photographers we happened upon alerted us to

4 Bald Eagles

This gallery contains 4 photos. I wanted to have a closeup of this fully mature Bald Eagle roosting at the top a dead birch tree on the Raptor Trail portion of Boundary Bay Regional Park … but it decided, at 30 feet away, that it was

Wide-Eyed with Wonder

Could those pupils be any larger? This is Snoopy the Northern Saw Whet Owl, photographed during the Orphaned Wildlife Life Rehabilitation Society Spring 2015 Open House Weekend (photographed on April 26). Head trauma makes

Golden Beauties Thru the Bars

Normally, I’d prefer not to show photos with cages, but it’s less distracting in the case of these subjects because of my distance from both them and the bars. This gorgeous pair of Golden Eagles is being rehabilitated

Profile of a Peregrine Falcon

This beautiful Peregrine Falcon — who was in one of the rehabilitation buildings at Ladner’s Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society over the 2015 Spring Open House weekend — was unintentionally vignetted when I

Wildlife Up Close: Harris’s Hawk

The second time that I have seen this bird of prey — but not as close as this. I don’t recall his name, but I do remember that he’s about 20 years old — which is about how long Harris’s Hawks can generally live to in captivity. This (relatively) well-trained male was performing during the last raptors show of the day. Photographed on September 14 at the Greater Vancouver Zoo.

Sally the Saker Falcon

This gallery contains 3 photos. Sally the Saker Falcon was owned by a falconer who passed on, and she has become a fixture at the Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society (O.W.L.) in Ladner, BC.