Welcome back everyone, it’s time for yet another Inquiry post!

Another couple weeks further into the school semester, and only a couple more posts to go. I focused the last couple weeks on capturing photos over video. I spent a lot of my time with my phone mounted to my binoculars rather than the spotting scope as well. This is something that takes more time to set up but I find once I do get everything set it does a better job of capturing what I am seeing. I spent most my time in the Shawnigan valley and the Sooke hills this time around. I’m usually in the Cowichan valley so it was a nice change of scenery. and like always, I managed to take some photos of some wildlife which I’m going to share with you right away here.

First up for this post is this cute photo I took of a couple does (female deer for anyone who may not know). I really liked this photo because it is the first time I’ve ever seen deer here on Vancouver Island bed in a slash! Usually I see them resting in timber or farmers fields. but these two set up camp in the wide open and hung around long enough for me to take a nice photo of them. always cool to see how these animals like to live their life in the wild. It was a very rainy cold day when I took this photo so that’s why the one on the right looks so grumpy.

Next up is this younger buck I saw in and around Oliphant lake, Shawnigan BC. What I liked about this photo was how clear it came out compared to most the photos I take. I think this is because the buck was “sky lined” (A fancy way to say there was nothing behind it). This allowed my camera to better focus in on him rather than selecting a whole bunch of trees or shrubs to focus up on. Super healthy deer this guy was, seems like he was eating lots in preparation for the winter.

Just going to end it off with a cool photo of some timber I hiked through. Put a game camera in here so hopefully I can share what animals are walking around with you guys soon.

The fog gave it a Halloween vibe 😉

Until next week, Cheers

~Alex