1350-286 - Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears come to spend the summer loafing on the island and looking for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Global warming has shortened their winter so they are increasingly looking for food in the summer.
1350-147 - Orion and the winter sky, at left, and a swirl of colourful aurora over the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, in a display on February 11, 2018. People from the first Learning Vacations group of the season are shooting the Lights.
1350-265 - Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.
1350-280 - Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears come to spend the summer loafing on the island and looking for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Global warming has shortened their winter so they are increasingly looking for food in the summer.
1350-256 - Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears come to spend the summer loafing on the island and looking for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Global warming has shortened their winter so they are increasingly looking for food in the summer.
1350-244 - Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears come to spend the summer loafing on the island and looking for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Global warming has shortened their winter so they are increasingly looking for food in the summer.
1350-200 - Polar Bear (ursus maritimus) with relaxed yawn in Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on sub-arctic flower covered island at Hubbart Point, Hudson Bay, near Churchill, Manitoba, Northern Canada..
1350-320 - Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.
1350-191 - Mother Polar Bear (ursus maritimus) with cubs COY near snow den at Wapusk National Park, Hudson Bay, Churchill area, Manitoba, Northern Canada
1350-199 - Polar Bear (ursus maritimus) relaxing in Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on sub-arctic flower covered island at Hubbart Point, Hudson Bay, near Churchill, Manitoba, Northern Canada..
1350-192 - Mother Polar Bear (ursus maritimus) with cubs COY near snow den at Wapusk National Park, Hudson Bay, Churchill area, Manitoba, Northern Canada
1350-139 - Curtains of aurora during an active storm on February 18, 2018 from the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, in the early evening in the last of the twilight. This night the aurora was brightest early in the evening. The Big Dipper is at left.
1350-297 - Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) on Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Arctic Terns nest commonly in Northern Manitoba, Nunavut, and the Northwest territories. They defend their nests and young very aggressively against all predators and threats including humans.
1350-193 - Mother Polar Bear (ursus maritimus) with cubs COY near snow den at Wapusk National Park, Hudson Bay, Churchill area, Manitoba, Northern Canada
1350-201 - Mother Polar Bear (ursus maritimus) with cubs dripping on ice in sub-arctic Wager Bay near Hudson Bay, Churchill area, Manitoba, Northern Canada
1350-318 - Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) on sea ice off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Bears come to the coast of Hudson Bay in Fall waiting for the ice to freeze, and looking for a careless seal or dead whale to wash up. Global warming has shortened their winter so they are increasingly anxious as they wait for winter. While they wait, they engage in frequent wrestling matches to determine a mating hierarchy for the breeding season in March and April, and regularly check on the ice to see if it will carry them out to sea.
1350-202 - Mother Polar Bear (ursus maritimus) with cub shaking off water halo on rocky cliff in sub-arctic Wager Bay near Hudson Bay, Churchill area, Manitoba, Northern Canada
1350-103 - Auroral curtains converge at the zenith in the evening twilight during a Kp Index 7 night of aurora in Churchill, Manitoba. Blue twilight adds the blue tints to the sky and curtains.
1350-194 - Mother Polar Bear (ursus maritimus) with cubs COY near snow den at Wapusk National Park, Hudson Bay, Churchill area, Manitoba, Northern Canada
1350-319 - Polar Bear (Ursa maritimus) in fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) on an island off the sub-arctic coast of Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.
1350-189 - Mother Polar Bear (ursus maritimus) with cubs COY near snow den at Wapusk National Park, Hudson Bay, Churchill area, Manitoba, Northern Canada
1350-290 - Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) on Hudson Bay, Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Arctic Terns nest commonly in Northern Manitoba, Nunavut, and the Northwest territories. They defend their nests and young very aggressively against all predators and threats including humans.
1350-99 - The Northern Lights on Feb 16, 2015, as seen from the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, in Churchill, Manitoba at 58° latitude, and under the auroral oval. The aurora appeared as skies cleared somewhat during a blizzard with high winds and blowing snow conditions. I shot these from the second floor deck of the Centre, out of the wind and off the ground. Jupiter is at right, the Big Dipper at left.
1350-101 - An aurora over the snowy boreal forest trees at the Chruchill Northern Studies Centre, Churchill, Manitoba, March 3, 2016. The display started the night quite impressively but then faded and subsided. This is a 10-second exposure a f/2 and ISO 3200 with the Nikon D750 and Sigma 20mm Art lens.
1350-187 - Mother Polar Bear (ursus maritimus) with cubs COY near snow den at Wapusk National Park, Hudson Bay, Churchill area, Manitoba, Northern Canada