I took a morning walk around Byrne Creek Ravine Park in SE Burnaby, BC, today. The highlight was coming across this Red-tailed Hawk in Ron McLean Park.
Took a short photo ramble at Fraser Foreshore Park.
Great Blue Heron
Mating Damselflies
The Red-tailed Hawk family nested near our townhouse in Burnaby, BC, again this year. Nice to see them!
Spotted a grouse, a Steller’s Jay, and a Douglas Squirrel while camping in Manning Park.
This was my first sighting of a Common Nighthawk. It was along highway 5A, but I don’t recall the exact spot.
It was exciting to see an Osprey take a trout at Lac le Jeune, near Kamloops, BC, and then have a Bald Eagle try to steal the fish!
It appears that neither ended up with sashimi this time!
There were lots of trout jumping for bugs in the evening. . .
Happy to see the Osprey back at One Mile Lake near Pemberton, BC. Doubt if the fish is happy. . . 🙂
Osprey
Cedar Waxwing
Anna’s Hummingbird
Bald Eagle
Cedar Waxwing
Male Wood Ducks
Female Wood Duck and ducklings
Saw this collared Swan off of the Lillooet Lake Bridge near Pemberton, BC.
I reported it to the Trumpeter Swan Society Swan Watch page.
When I first saw it off in the distance I thought it had gotten trapped in some garbage, but when I pulled out Big Bertha for some telephoto shots, I realized it was a tag. I searched online and learned that swans sometimes get such neck bands so that reseearchers can identify them from afar.
UPDATE:
Cool! I got a response from the swan society, and this is a bird that was injured or ill, rehabilitated, and released.
Thanks so much for your trumpeter watch report of swan K53.
As it is a gray swan, that means it hatched last summer.
The yellow collar indicates it is a swan that must have been injured or sick and was rescued by the WA Department of Fish and Wildlife sometime this last fall/winter after arrival in WA where it was spending the winter and was taken to the Whatcom Humane Society for rehab. It would have been released sometime this late winter- WDFW usually releases the rehabbed swans in February or so. I really appreciate your report- I’ll make sure WDFW knows of your sighting.