Yowza! Not one, not two, but three Steller’s Jays visited our balcony together this morning in SE Burnaby, BC.
As it gets colder and wetter we seem to be getting a broader variety of visitors to our balcony.
Black-capped Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Junco
We walked from the Cariboo Dam to Piper Spit and back on the weekend.
There were lots of expired chum salmon near the spit. Some people were perturbed, so I explained the salmon life cycle to them, and that this was perfectly normal.
American Coots are so goofy looking and cute!
Near Piper Spit at Burnaby Lake on the weekend.
Lots of Long-billed Dowitchers near Piper Spit at Burnaby Lake on the weekend.
As British Columbia health officials announce sweeping new measures to contain Covid, I fear our society is entering a dangerous phase in which Covid deniers and anti-maskers will continue to make life miserable for months to come for the majority of us who have been following the rules.
Covid doesn’t care about your culture, your beliefs, and your religious practices. There is no dispensation.
The beach partiers, the street partiers, the house partiers, for a few hours of “fun” you’ve made life miserable for weeks, or likely months to come, for all of us.
I cannot fathom such selfishness and antisocial behaviour.
I cannot fathom such childish focus on immediate gratification when long-term pain is in the balance.
We almost had it beat, eh?
I don’t know if I’m more angry, or sad.
I’m certainly disappointed.
Thank you Burnaby Now — my photo of a Great Blue Heron eating a Coho Salmon on the cover.
Reached the Tantalus Lookout on the Sea to Sky highway between Vancouver and Pemberton, BC, just as the sun set.
Took a short stop at One Mile Lake near Pemberton, BC, today.
Spotted a few chum and coho salmon on our patrol looking for spawning salmon on Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby today. Also few other birds and beasts.
Chum salmon
Small coho jack
NOTE: It’s illegal to interfere with spawning salmon. Streamkeepers have training and permission to monitor returning salmon, and assess them for species, sex, size, and spawning status after they die.
Downy Woodpecker
