Flying low over a slough in western Canada, this adult male gadwall duck was photographed in-flight. The subtle colours of the male gadwall duck make it an instant favorite to photograph, hope you like this one… male gadwall duck inflight over an...

Just one of many in-flight photos of the gorgeous male redhead duck, this time caught in-flight of a slough here in southern Alberta, Canada. Spring is in the air and the birds are showing brilliant mating colours. This photo is available in canvas prints. A...

The male northern shoveler, I love these ducks! Amazing colours, and that long, shovel like beak makes these quackers fun to photograph! Right now they seem to be everywhere here in southern Alberta, but these ducks are still skittish and somewhat hard...

Found in both large and small sloughs (or ponds) here in southern Alberta, the american coot is an interesting bird, especially there specialty developed feet! A few photos of a very cool bird. An american coot close-up Cruising a slough on a calm evening...

Photographed this male (drake) wood duck in flight last week under overcast skies using the 300mm 2.8 VR. I liked the way it turned out, great colors in nice even light. Photographed in low light, a drake (male) wood duck

Definitely one of my favorite bird/ducks to photograph, the male wood duck is SO colourful, its scary! Especially this time of year when its showing full mating colours. These photos are from a few evenings ago, the light was getting low and only patches...

Made a quick visit to the bow river weir in Calgary last evening to see how the american white pelicans are doing. They seem to be fine, I photographed about 30 of them flying around the weir looking for fish. Rear view of a pelican over the bow river...

I know what you are thinking, more wood ducks and again with the flying wood ducks! I can’t help myself, I did it again and now have a bunch of wood duck photos to add to my collection, but still not quite enough! The wood duck on the left along...

No, that beast on the left looking over the branches and clinging to the bark of the tree is not a samsquanch, a.k.a. bigfoot or sasquatch, it is a tree eating porcupine, in this case a very cute baby porcupine with a serious hairdo! I also ran into mom...

On the left, a close up portrait photo of a male Canadian Goose, the blue background is water in very low light. Right now his mate is on eggs trying to keep them warm, not an easy task after last nights dump of snow (yes, I said snow, about 5″...