Inspired by this article at the incredible photoblog Available Light (no really, add them to your reader right now, don't even question it), I headed out onto the ice to play with a little night photography. I have much to learn, too much really.  But...

The Sun returned to Arctic Bay today. A little before noon, Travis, who had been checking the horizon every couple of minutes, saw the first sliver of it peeking above the mountains across Adam's Sound. Apparently though three months without it have...

Congratulations go out to Amy Evenstad, who crafted the winning entry in this month's First Friday over at WildBird on the Fly.  I rather liked my entry this month, I might just expand the concept to a longer story.  And in case you are at all...

My good friend Duncan, of Ben Cruachan Blog has put together a fair dinkum bushman edition of the latest I and the Bird. Or rather he convinced an old Bushie, his cobber I gather, to put it together for him. This offsider has done an ace job for a...

My ideas of what exactly makes a species have evolved over time.  If I think back to my school days I remember the standard definition of a species was an organism that could breed with one another and produce viable young. But as time has gone on...