Snowies!

Snowy Owls are all over the prairies this time of year but they are pretty hard to spot. Uber-zoom Canon SX50HS gets you close enough to these amazing birds. We’ve managed to find some on every trip so far. Apparently they need to catch 7 to 12 mice/ or 3 to 5 lemmings every day …

18th century mechanical RoBoT!

Well this is awesome. Pierre Jaquet-Droz was a 18th century watchmaker who perfected mechanical movement in his creations called automata. This one managed to write you note – completely mechanically! It’s like the robots of yester-year! 🙂 OK maybe not completely, but still no less amazing 🙂 The one in the video below – still …

World’s most adorable sea otter

If you haven’t subscribed to Otter501 on youtube yet, you are missing out. Videos used to be posted frequently, but now they are making a documentary and they just give us a glimpse from time to time. Still, it’s just the thing you need to start your weekend off with a smile!

Grizzly Family in the Wild

We were incredibly lucky to see this Grizzly family in the wild recently. It appears to be a mother and two consecutive years’ cubs crossing a river, and dashing through a ravine. Not sure if I’d be able to keep up with them! The video above is HTML5 embedded. You’ll need an HTML5 capable browser …