Category: Swans

Although I’m not nearly finished showing you the Arctic trip, it’s Spring and the weather is wonderful, so there are other things happening that I also want to show you. I probably wouldn’t have posted about our outing to photograph the migrating swans yesterday, but then as I went...

Reports on the number of swans now stopped in the Yukon continue to climb, so yesterday I went for a look at four of the best viewing areas. I only got very distant sightings but it was great to be out anyway. The four locations, and the number of...

While the Spring migration of the Trumpeter and Tundra swans through the southern Yukon is a major event, the Fall migration is generally not, because there is no massive gathering of thousands of swans. At least there’s no massive gathering in a place that’s easy to get to. In...

Our spring swan hunt on April 19th began at Carcross, but there were few swans so just before 4:00 pm we headed for the bridge at Tagish where numbers are usually much higher. That’s a scenic 34-km drive. Yukon Highway 8, more commonly called the Tagish Road, is a...

On Monday, April 19th, I got a call from friends asking if I’d like to join them for a swan hunt. I sure would! I’m doing two blog posts about this outing because the Carcross and Tagish parts of it were quite different and each has enough photos to...

Photography is a state of mind to some degree – the more I shoot one day (like yesterday), the more I shoot the next time, and I start to see things differently. I get back to really seeing what’s around me. I had to go to Carcross today to...

Today began very, very early. The aurora borealis forecast was for a Level 4 display, which is very good, so I got out of bed at 01:30, and even though there were no Northern Lights yet, got my gear packed and headed out. The first auroral glow began as...

When I was in Carcross the past few days I was reminded of what an incredible place it is for a photographer – why I have thousands of photos taken within a couple of miles of the village. The 5 photos that follow were all shot on April 6th....

We’ve been having above-average warm weather for weeks now, and I estimate that Spring is about 3 weeks ahead of schedule. Reports that some swans even spent the winter in the Whitehorse area prompted us to go on a tour of the main swan viewing spots yesterday. The return...

I’ve received some emails recently wondering if I’m okay. I appreciate the concern, and it has been over a month since I’ve posted here, but it’s not because I’ve been sick or any such bad thing. Spring is just such a busy time in the North, and this Spring...