My illustrious daughter Shannon Paterson covers an amazing story torn from the pages of Wild Kingdom! It's a marmot, folks, which seems ...

Haven't seen ANY birds for ever so long. The back yard is deserted! I've complained about this before, so I'll shut up now, but ...

I received this email just now, regarding a post I did in 2016. I feel a little too stunned to write about it now. We were pretty certain Bo...

The crow I recently encountered on Lafarge Lake was acting very strangely. It was standing on the banks rattling its beak menacingly, an...

I don't know why squirrels hate each other so much. Their furious vocalizing is like the worst kind of vile, nasty profanity, and it...

It took me a long time to figure out what that "pew-pew-pew!" noise was in the back yard. I heard it nearly every night, and i...

One of my more poetic nature videos. I shot this from very far away, through a window with a screen in it, but it lent the video a fey, ...

This was just so sad. A very small gosling had slipped through a grate across a stream, leading to a waterfall that made it impossible f...

Bosley is the name we gave to a very strange duck who lives with a flock of mallards in Como Lake. We kept wondering why a very large, p...

My God, I am so glad I am not the only one who hates this horrible, disgusting practice! It is ubiquitous for all sorts of occasions, ha...

The first time a blackbird flew down to eat out of my hand at Burnaby Lake, my hair stood on end (figuratively speaking). From the time ...

For once, I grabbed the camera at the right time, while the pack was howling. I shot out the window, and as it was after midnight it was...

I love making gifs, in full knowledge that they don't always  run so well. They can be slow or jerky for the first thirty secon...

I was astounded when this guy flew right down to me. Obviously he has no fear, which is not the best thing for him. But it's the bes...

Bill managed to get a few shots of these newly-hatched goslings at Burnaby Lake yesterday. These are little fluffballs, still with ...

The duck mystery deepens. For years now, Bill and I have been walking around Como Lake in Coquitlam - a very pleasant alternative to...

Canada geese form ‘gang broods’ in Burnaby Two adult birds with 33 goslings grab attention at Burnaby Lake BY LARRY PYNN, VANCOUVE...

Three broods of goslings at Sasamat Lake. Taken last year. This was all I could find in video to illustrate the "Canada geese form...