On April 21st, 2008, Kelly Munday took these pictures near Waterlily Bay at LakelseLake and was quick to send them off to 8 people by e-mail. A week later she received them herself from a friend excited to share them with her claiming that they were taken by Tom Carver, the owner of Waterlily Bay Resort. Michael Bowen-Colthurst owns the Resort and we know that Ms. Munday is not Tom Carver.

They are spectacular photos and the sharing of these pictures is more than appreciated it is an act of humanity and philanthropy. This selfless act has been disregarded and disrespected by someone claiming to be Tom Carver. The Sun Tabloid in the UK has published them giving credit to the wrong person. Munday has searched the internet and claims to have found hundreds of sites that have posted her pictures all claiming credit to Carver. After discovering the Sun Tabloid had printed them she contacted them and they agreed to compensate her however there are just too many locations to correct.


“ I did, as an afterthought, watermark and email the photos with my name on them to the original few, but once that 1st email to 8 people was sent out I guess it was too late”, stated Munday, “I was just too excited to show my family and friends what I had captured and never dreamt in a million years that someone else would claim them as their own.” adding, “I have learned a valuable lesson to NEVER forward photos unless you don't care if they are stolen, so next time I capture an "amazing" event I will put my name on it!

Kelly Munday described the event as it happened when she wrote to the Sun in the UK. “My husband, son and I were out in our boat on Lakelse Lake in Terrace. We were at the mouth of the Lakelse River where I spotted a pair of Trumpeter Swans and started photographing them. The pair split up and one swan flew past me and a Bald Eagle came out of nowhere, grabbed the swan, struggled with it for approx 5 seconds. Feathers were flying everywhere! The swan was quite a bit larger than the Bald Eagle and the swan broke free, dropped and then flew back to the water. We waited to see if the swan was okay and it appeared to be fine, just a few feathers lost. I have never witnessed this before and none of the ornithologists that I have talked to have ever witnessed this before. The swan was approx 100 feet over me and I was in a moving boat so the pictures aren't as clear as I would have expected with this lens but needless to say an absolute amazing series was captured!”