Michael Wigle Photography: Featured Galleries and Collections

Central Coast 'Scapes

mjwigle@belco.bc.ca (Michael Wigle Photography) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:16:13 GMT

This gallery contains images of the Central Coast region of British Columbia - the landscapes and some of the activities people are drawn to this area to do and view.

Bella Coola Bears-2009

mjwigle@belco.bc.ca (Michael Wigle Photography) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:45:22 GMT

It's now the first week of Sept. and the salmon have made it back to the Atnarko River in pretty good numbers (compared to last year, anyway) and the Pinks and Chinook are beginning to spawn. The bears are back to the river also to hunt and scavenge for this most vital of food sources. This is their story with some of the bear families being recognizable to me over the years. One family, Y-Back and her young ones, I've seen together now since her cubs were in their first year. They are now in their fourth year and still patrol the river with their mom. Somebody gave her the name Y-Back for some reason and it will be used here. She has a distinctive white blotch on her shoulders which dribbles down her sides like someone poured white paint on her. One of her young has a similar (but neater) white band on its shoulders while the other young one is fairly blonde. After image#16, other bears in my encounters are shown.

Chinook "Egg Take" part 2

mjwigle@belco.bc.ca (Michael Wigle Photography) — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 03:32:53 GMT

These days, there are 2 different methods used by the Snootli Creek Salmon Hatchery facility, Bella Coola, to capture the necessary Chinook Salmon spawning adults to attain their quota of 2 million viable eggs. The first method was described (I hope) in the first Chinook "EggTake" gallery on this website. This second method (with a "tangle" net) is what I'm most familiar with as I once did this work on this river for 6 years or so.

These photos describe a day on the Atnarko River tangle-net fishing for "ripe" Chinook Salmon on their redd sites in the deeper runs of the river.

Bald Eagles

mjwigle@belco.bc.ca (Michael Wigle Photography) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:01:47 GMT

An Eagles life on the Central Coast of British Columbia

Yelapa, Mexico

mjwigle@belco.bc.ca (Michael Wigle Photography) — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:49:14 GMT