While we focus our volunteer streamkeeping attentions on Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby, BC, we also like to check out other creeks and streams in the lower mainland.
We were excited to see dozens of chum returning to spawn in Scott Creek in Coquitlam.
You can check out the Hoy-Scott Watershed Society here.
I love watching the colors change over the days as volunteers monitor salmon spawning in Byrne Creek in Burnaby. What a delight!
Volunteer streamkeepers have observed as many as 10 salmon now on Byrne Creek in Burnaby. It’s wonderful to see them coming back to spawn!
Whew, what an amazing day!
I did our monthly recycling run to the Still Creek Environment Centre in Burnaby, and on the way home I parked near the Cariboo Dam and walked to Piper Spit and back on Burnaby Lake.
Unfortunately it was overcast, but there were still plenty of chum salmon to be seen around the fish ladder at the Cariboo Dam.
American Coot near Piper Spit
Crows were harassing a hawk. I thought they had driven it off, but as I left the spit I took one more look at the tree I thought it had hidden in, and it was still there.
Female Wood Duck. What a cutie!
And her boyfriend nearby.
Green-Winged Teal
Northern Pintail
Spotted Towhee
Red-Winged Blackbird
Three colorations of pigeons
Steller’s Jay
Black Slug
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Saw three pairs of chum salmon spawning in Byrne Creek in SE #Burnaby today. Wonderful to be seeing more fish. Keep on coming!
Female flipping sideways to dig a nest in the gravel with her tail. Color temperature off due to weird light under bridge, didn’t bother to correct it.
Volunteer streamkeepers found and assessed this dead male chum salmon on Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby today. We spotted racoon tracks a ways further up the creek.
Byrne Creek Streamkeepers Society volunteers spotted four chum salmon in the creek today in SE #Burnaby that have returned to spawn. Great to see them coming back this year!
Cold, rainy day activities: baking and advanced theoretical physics.
Sora is a highly intelligent cat. While Daddy is interested in baking bran muffins, she’s more into string theory. . . 
Blueberry, sesame, oatmeal bran muffins. Oh, yeah, half a banana in there too. . .
