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Niall Bell
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🌱 Nature buff creating authentic nature photographs & sharing the stories of the wonderful creatures with which we share our home.
🇨🇦 Squamish, BC
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February Photo Pick📷

Here’s my top four photos from February! An industrial environmental portrait of a glaucous-winged gull; Two Pacific-white sided dolphins in the Howe Sound; A stunning Anna’s Humming bird; and an epic sunset over Garibaldi.

#feb #photo #bird #wildlife #landscape #Canada #bc #🇨🇦
Atlantic Puffin🪶

It’s the time of year for these adorable creatures to start arriving on our coastline in the UK! This will be the first year in many I can’t photograph these cuties as they don’t exist in in Canada!

This is a photo taken on Isle of Lunga, a few years ago!

#puffin #birds #photo
April 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Turkey Vulture🦅

Another migrant visitor here in Squamish. I’ve been waiting for them to arrive! These birds are remarkable, and I can’t wait to spend more time photographing them and learning about their behaviour!

#birds #vulture #turkeyvulture #nature #wildlife #bc #canada
March 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Red-winged Blackbird🐦‍⬛

I waited a while for this striking bird to land on a perch which placed the towering Nch’kay (Atwell Peak) of the Garibaldi range right in the background of the shot. It turned out beautifully!

#nchkay #squamish #birds #mountains #wildlife #animals #photo #canada #bc
March 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Anna’s Hummingbird🪶

Super stunning male i photographed today! I can’t get enough of their feathers!

#annashummingbird #birds #nature #wildlife #animals #photography #canada #bc #squamish
March 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Red-winged Blackbird🐦‍⬛

Perhaps the most epic song I’ve heard yet in Canada. These birds belt out a right tune! Here a bird is seen showing off to a nearby female flanked by the mighty Chief🏞️

#canada #bc #redwingedblackbird #bird #photo #nature #wildlife #squamish #birds #animals #mountain
March 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Smooth Landing🛬

A female belted kingfisher landing on a perch after fishing. She caught at least 5 fish while in was watching, one after another.

These birds are incredible!

#birds #nature #wildlife #animals #canada #bc #kingfisher
March 23, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Bald Eagle Fractus☁️

This bald eagle is abit of an oddity with its bright yellow bill, but brown head feathers. It makes the bird look a little bit like a white-tailed eagle. Of course, on the Pacific Northwest this isn’t the case!

The clouds are known as fractus.

#birds #photo #nature #squamish
March 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Mighty Anna’s🪶

These little birds are incredibly mighty! They are able to survive the cold winters of Canada like champions unlike their cousins the Rufus Hummingbird!

#hummingbird #annashummingbird #birds #photography #nature #wildlife #animals #canada #bc
March 21, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Coolest Name Award🥇

Say’s Phoebe!

This is a completely new bird ti me since arriving in Canada. I’d never even heard of them! Let alone the entire group of birds called Phoebes.

Say’s Phoebe are uncommon in #squamish and are an awesome flycatcher to see!

#bird #wildlife #nature #animals #photo
March 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Dolphin Plume🐬

Just a Pacific white-sided dolphin spraying as it breaths in more air!

#dolphin #nature #wildlife #animals #bc #canada #cetaceans
March 16, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Glaucous-winged Gull🪶

I liked the gull against the cloud covered mountains in the distance. It made for a nice pseudo-mono photograph.

#gull #bird #nature #wildlife #animals #bc #canada
March 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Porteau Cove🏝️

Spent the morning at Porteau Cove watching birds and checking out the marine life! The water of the sound is so clear that you can see the sea lions swimming in the water below! Super cool. Two hours with the dolphins made the day!🐬

#dolphin #porteau #squamish #photo #howesound #bc
March 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Flicker🪵

The vibrant red underwing of the Flicker!

#bird #birds #photography #photo #wildlife #nature #bc #squamish
March 13, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Belted Kingfisher 👑🎣

Just an awesome female belted kingfisher flying past during my trip to Bowen Island.

#birds #kingfisher #wildlife #nature #photography #photo
March 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Eagle Wings🪶

Look at those wings! The bald eagle is up there with one of the most impressive birds of prey I've had the pleasure of photographing!

#nature #wildlife #eagle #bird #birds #photo #photography
March 11, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Spotted!👀

This spotted towhee posed for less than 5 seconds and I managed a single shot! How stunning is that bright red eye!?

#bird #photo #nature #wildlife #bc #photograph
March 11, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Hanging by a Thread 🧵

I'm not certain on the species, so if you're into bugs let me know, but they were all over Bowen Island. This one caught my eye as it dangled in a beam of light.

#bug #entomology #photography #macro #bc #canada #insect
March 10, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Northern Harrier🦅

Here is a #lifer for me! Taken at Reifel Bird Sanctuary last week. I’ve always been fond of harriers, I love the way they course the marsh looking for prey.

#birds #bird #photo #photography #vancouver #bc #wildlife #nature
March 9, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Misty Chief😈

The #squamishchief looking superb dressed in cloud today as an ‘atmospheric river’ washes along the Coast Mountains!

#bs #chief #mountain #rain #weather
March 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
February Photo Pick📷

Here’s my top four photos from February! An industrial environmental portrait of a glaucous-winged gull; Two Pacific-white sided dolphins in the Howe Sound; A stunning Anna’s Humming bird; and an epic sunset over Garibaldi.

#feb #photo #bird #wildlife #landscape #Canada #bc #🇨🇦
March 8, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Moss Forest🌿

This was an amazing thing to see, a fallen log covered in this splendid moss. These here are the capsule tipped sporophytes of the moss which contain spores for reproduction.

I'm no moss expert but I think this is a moss in the Hypnum genus.

#moss #mosses #bryophytes #plants #photo
March 8, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Nature🦅

As the salmon dry up bald eagles in the Howe Sound look for alternative food sources. This bald eagle had helped herself to a common merganser.

#nature #wildlife #birds #eagle #squamish #bc #photo #photography
March 8, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Redwing Blackbird🪶

These guys are stunning and have a beautifully melodic song. I now listen out for them everytime I’m out walking🎶

#bird #redwingblackbird #birds #photo #photography #wildlife #nature
March 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Spot the Bird🔍

It’s not that difficult but how awesome is the camouflage?! This was a sighting we had at #reifelbirdsanctuary in Delta on what turned out to be a very wet day!

#delta #americanbittern #nature #wildlife #animals #birds #canada #bc #photo
March 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Mule Deer🫏

My first Canadian deer sighting! I learned these guys are called mule deer because of their ears!

#mule #donkey #deer #squamish #bc #Canada
March 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM