Nic Steenhout

@nicolas-steenhout.com

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Eclectic! Keynote speaker and accessibility trainer. But this platform is mostly for chatting about anything and everything. And amateur bird and wildlife photography! All photos my own. Birds ethically photographed. Copyright me. He/Him/His

Close up portrait of a big black dog’s head cuddling up on my leg. His chin hair is getting white.
A great blue heron viewed from the site. He's standing on water. There are a few branches and grasses sticking out of the water. He's lit by the warm light of the setting sun.
A kingfisher on top of an old wood pile that is capped with old aluminum. The sky is uniformly grey behind it.
A great blue heron in flight, viewed from the back. He's flying low over frozen waters and a bit of land with long dead grasses. A Canadian goose is partially hidden by the grasses. We can see one wing spread high and wide and her head.
A coyote standing up and facing the camera. Its fur blends into the yellow grasses.
Close up portrait of a big black dog’s face looking up at the camera while having his head on my leg. His muzzle and chin hair is getting white.
A Black-capped chickadee standing sideways on a thin upright branch. You can see his black cap really well, with the wide white wedge starting at the beak and going to the back of the head. Very fetching :)
The tip of two evergreen trees in the foreground. The moon was in the sky between the tip of those two trees. But so much cloud cover that the moon couldn’t be seen.
Snow falling in large flakes. some evergreens visible in the foreground. The mountain that you can typically see in the background is simply gone.
Screenshot from a weather app showing a 40% to 70% chance of rain between 8pm and 2am, with temperatures ranging from 4C to 2C.
Video of a barred owl pooping then flying away.
Portrait of a tiger in watercolors. The tiger is staring at the viewer. The head/face is well defined, the image fades out from the shoulders.
Two turkey vultures in a freshly mowed green field. Both standing with their wings wide open. They are quite far and we can’t perceive details in either birds.
A dunlin in water up to its belly. He's on the move, one leg lifted. His long beak is just above the water. There are tiny waves around him.
Four Great blue herons in tall grasses with a lake in the background. Only one is in focus. All their heads are near their shoulders, as if they had no neck.
A Kodak CompactFlash card held in an open hand. 128 MB Capacity.
Great Blue heron, tiny in the distance, on top of a wooden pile capped with tin. There are several such piles around. The water is low, exposing the base of the piles. There's a sandbar in the midground. The background is made of both evergreen trees and some leafless trees. There's haze in the air.
A soufflé like large pancake in a cast iron pan. A pile of blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries is in the middle of the Dutch baby.
A half moon in the night sky. The details are crisp.
A crow standing in a thin wooden rail. The top of a large mountain range is behind him. A bit of blue sky at the top of the photo.
A short eared owl in flight low over tall grasses, viewed from profile with its wings down, and its head turned towards the photographer. Not far on the other side of the bird are two photographers, out of focus but too close to the bird.
American Widgeon flying low over the water. His wings are forming an upside down U, wingtips nearly touching the water. There is a bright patch of green on his wing, nearly turquoise, iridescent.
Head and shoulder portrait of an Artic wolf. He's all white, but there's some black showing through his fur. His eyes and nose are black. his eyes are squinting nearly closed. His ears are standing up, covered in fur. He has a thin layer of snow on his back and head, and he's standing on snow.
A Dunlin in the air close to the water. He's facing the photographer. His wings are spread wide and he has one leg slightly higher than the other, as if he was trying to hop above the small wave. Another dunlin in the background, in water up to his hips, is out of focus.
American bittern in flight, low over the ground. There are tall reeds behind it. Its legs are long and hanging down. Its body is striped beige and brown. Its wings are high, making the whole bird looking like a big T. The whole scene is lit by the warm light of the setting sun.
Grey wolf upside down in the snow, twisted around, with his front paws curled up.
3 grey wolves in the snow. One is laying down, one is standing up, the other is walking. They are all seen in profile, all looking in the same direction. They are on a snow butte and there are snow-covered trees behind them. You can see snow falling in the background.
A mountain top, chiselled with snow and rock faces in the background. A tall wood pile stands in the midground, and multiple wood plank stick out of the river's edge at a 45 degree angle.
A parking space with the blue wheelchair man accessibility symbol painted on the ground. The space is wide enough, and long enough. But there are two pallets of stuff on the side of the parking space. Making it impossible for a car to park there, let alone a car that needs extra space to unload the wheelchair.
Nine double crested cormorant lined up on a sand bar on the side of the river. Their feet are in the water. To their left is a lone glaucous-winged gull.
Short-eared owl in flight, wings spread out, on the turn low over tall grasses. His head is pointing down, focused on something in the grass that we can't see. The owl is mostly brown and beige, and the grass matches those colors.
Box of KD macaroni and cheese that says “original”, but also says “gluten free”.
A small red and white plane with big balloon wheels is flying so low over the river that one of his wheels is lifting a large spray of water.
A Steller's Jay viewed in profile. He's standing on a branch, and he looks like a big round blorb. He's fluffed up his feathers against the cold. His head and shoulders are black, the rest of his body is blue. His feathers on the top of his head are standing up. He doesn't look pleased.
Cormorant standing on top of an old worn out wooden pile, with water behind him. A taller wooden pile is to his left.
A red-breasted sapsucker on the side of a concrete post. His entire head is red, part of his chest is red, his wing is mostly black with a white stripe.
A great blue heron standing in a field. He's not super obvious. The field isn't growing anything but old grasses.
Several dozens Dunlins in flight, in a tight group, wings in all positions.
Portrait of a big black dog, head resting on a brown sleeping bag.
White-faced heron walking on a muddy flat, surrounded by plant stalks. His face is completely white, unlike that of a Great blue heron.
Barred owl on a branch. He’s 3/4 with his back to the camera, with his head turned around and fully facing the camera. There is a tangle of branches behind him.
A pine Siskin at the very top of a small fir tree. He’s viewed from the side. His feathers are wet. You can clearly see the bright yellow patches on his wings.
American bittern standing with one foot on a dead branch. Its other foot is in the air, and you can see the very long toes spread out. The branch is on the edge of a small stream, and you can see the water moving.
Great blue heron with his feet barely touching the ground under long yellow grasses, with his wings spread out and up like a fancy car door. Flat water behind him.
Juvenile bald eagle, head and tail still brown, in flight, next to a tree he was just in. He’s flying sideways in a position that looks awkward.
A very young bald eagle in a nest. His feathers haven't grown beyond a grey fluff. His eyes seem disproportionately big in his head, and his beak already looks sharp and dangerous. The nest is a mess of small branches, against a large tree trunk. There are some green leaves from a vine.
A female common merganser taking flight. She has one foot in the water and her wings are spread out in a high V. Her head is a dark brown. There’s a splash of water behind her, where her other foot just was.
An old wooden house, falling apart. You can see through parts of it. It is on the horizon line between pale blue sky and green fields.
A Trumpeter swan standing on a thin layer of ice on a river. He’s viewed from the side, wings raised in the air, neck curved. All his feathers are going every which way, ruffled.
Great blue heron standing on one leg on a tree branch. The other leg is raised and his foot is about to scratch his face. His neck is close to the body in a tight S shape.
House sparrow viewed from the side. He’s on a pencil thick blackberry branch with a few leaves below him.
A small lake covered with thin ice.
Adult Bald eagle in flight, his body fills a large part of the grame. His wings are spread out horizontally, and his left primary are well defined. The sun is shining from the back and makes the top of his head really bright.
Screenshot of data graph where the numbers are overriding one another.
A full moon rising behind mountain peaks. The moon is really big, but shows slightly more than half. It is tinged with yellow. The mountain peaks are covered with snow. The sky is a very dark blue, not quite fully black yet.
Two Trumpeter swans with their wings spread in a high V, feet still running on water, with water splashes all over. The birds are cut off and you can only see the back of their body. On the other side of the frame, the head of another swan taking off. No bird captured fully.
20 or so Pelagic cormorants standing on a large wooden structure, warming up in the sun.
A snow goose in flight, viewed in profile. Her beak is open, her wings in a high V, showing the black primaries. Behind her are a lot of geese floating on the lake below. The whole image is dark.
The full moon getting high in a still blue sky, above a snow topped mountain range glowing pink from the setting sun.
Bald eagle standing in profile on a gravel bar in the middle of a river. He has the remnants of a salmon carcass by his feet. His head is turned sideways and he's looking straight at the camera. His head feathers are ruffled up and looking like it was a bad hair day after a rough night.