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I Photos on View Ât Ont. Museum From Page One The classic shot for this bird, he says, isn't when he is perched on a branch but when he lands on that branch with his plume standing up and his mouth open in a squawk. "You want to conjure up thoughts of the noise," he said. ■ Capturing the behavior behavior of birds in their own environment means that Mr. Richards has to go to 'where the birds are. He has been to the Arctic Arctic four times and says it's "as stark and real...and really beautiful" beautiful" as imagined. A wide variety of wildlife wildlife can be found in the southern portion of the Arctic, around Churchill Manitoba, but for the most part he sticks to photographing birds. Mammals, ne said, are more time-consuming mainly because they are so much more unpredictable. unpredictable. "To do a mammal the way I want to ... capturing capturing their personality ... takes days. As it is, he spends a lot of time now preparing for a shot. Preparation He has spent up to 20 hours waiting for the right shot. Four to five days' preparation preparation could be needed to get a picture of a bird of prey. Or ne could be walking through the woods and spot a bird, such as the owl in the photograph accompanying accompanying this story and nave tne picture taken taken in a minute. Mr. Richards also knows when and where to go to get the picture of the bird he is looking for. April and May are the best time to capture the birds in Florida on film because they are breed- ingthen. The desert birds in Arizona Arizona have their best colours colours in June and by mid- June. the birds in northern northern Ontario are best. With over 300 different species of birds in Ontario Ontario and 9,300 known living living species in the world, he thinks one would need nine lives to to shoot them all. ""I'd, need to spend three in the arctic, one in Arizona and two or three in Bowmanville," he said. Travelling to these different different places to photograph photograph exotic birds sounds very exciting but he is quick to mention that it does have a down side as well. It can get pretty boring waiting for the bird to Dse you want 3e dangerous The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, January 10,1990 21 New Developments Changing Face of Bowmanville Ei«»J ü ' i-Sï ■-- llllii H; _ _ ^ - m , - . ' 't - X v : > ; : "" ; mim ■rf «va- , _ s-t * - -■ z-.-raiBaSiW,. , bears are around, can be "veiy dangerous" and even in the fields around Bowmanville there could be trouble if you run across a pit bull or a rabid rabid fox. For that reason, whenever whenever he is on a trip away, he always goes with another another person. Sometimes his wife or sometimes a photography friend in Oshawa. "Sometimes all I come back with are cut le; discovering things," he explained. He somehow wanted to record the things he saw as a child. "I felt if I could photo- aph them, I could share em with other people." He admits his reasons for doing it now may be more selfish. (Some of the' photos conjure up memories memories for himself.) But he says he still enjoys it. He is hoping to get away on three trips next No Cause for Alarm When Puffs of Steam Appear over Hydro Plant Pack with are cut legs / atvc v L .' and a bunch of mosquito/ y eai \ and is looking for- " ' ward to retiring from his 3g strike the and it can too. The Dangers Moose season in Northern Northern Ontario can be risky. July and August in Churchill, when polar bites. 1 But the boredom, the dangers and. the threat of not seeing anything (haven't stopped him from pursuing a hobby that was spurred on by his childhood. "I was interested in wildlife ever since I was a child. I enjoyed strolling through the woods and - g ti ob at General Motors so îe can devote all of his time to his hobby. In the meantime, his first show will be appealing appealing to thousands of ROM visitors in the next few months and he will be plotting his next trek into Canada's north to forever E reserve pieces of its eauty on film. Clouds of what may have appeared to be smoke over the Darlington Generating Station last week, are no cause for alarm. Officials say the "smoke" was really puffs of steam. Sue Stickley, community relations officer at Darlington, Darlington, explained that the heating heating pumps in the first reactor reactor unit were increased to five per cent power last Tuesday. She said steam was produced produced to be used in testing. But, since there wasn't enough steam to turn the turbines, it was released into the air. 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It's a good op- that the car wash on Base Line Road, just west of portunity to remove the accumulated salt before more Martin Rd. is back in operation with expanded facili- snow arrives. •'-•Lv ' At the comer of Martin Road and Base Line, there's a new Drive-Thru that is part of the V-Plus Service Station. It features Skylight Donuts. ... The Gill family at Port Darlington are in the pro- riverside living quarters for those who love to be near cess of adding another 10 condominium units to their- the water with their otvn boat dock. This is only one of a number of new subdivisions scheduled to fill most of the open land areas within the Bowmanville boundary lines. The developments are expected to add several thousand new citizens to the municipality's population. Unfortunately, so far, industrial and commercial development is not keeping pace with the housing expansion. during..electricity,•■'we're re- leasing it (tfie':S^ttm) in the air," sne addedzi*.^ 1 ■ Ontario Hydro expects to turn the turbines in the unit within a week's time and hopes to be feeding electricity electricity into the grid in three to four weeks. By the end of February . Ontario Hydro is expecting to be back before the Atomic Energy Control Board for a licence to go to 100 per cent power. At present, Hydro has AECB permission to operate its second reactor unit at 20 per cent power. GETTING READY - Spring must be near because because we have just received an item that says the first meeting of the year will be held Wednesday, January 17th at Trinity United. 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