Put a mic in front of me, and hear me talk : – ).
Dunno, I guess it’s my passion for streamkeeping and nature, but I love to talk on these topics.
This budding young journalist was patient with me a few years back . . .
Put a mic in front of me, and hear me talk : – ).
Dunno, I guess it’s my passion for streamkeeping and nature, but I love to talk on these topics.
This budding young journalist was patient with me a few years back . . .
It’s not too often that we want rain here on the west coast of British Columbia. But it’s been so dry for so long that today’s steady drizzle is a welcome respite.
The air smells fresh and the balcony plants and ravine forest are sucking up moisture.
We’re fortunate that this welcome precipitation has arrived as a slow, steady drizzle. With it being dry for so long, a downpour would have just run off the parched soil.
We heard there was less smoke down in White Rock, BC, than around here in Burnaby, so we headed down for a beach walk today. It certainly was more pleasant near the water.
There were several killdeer flitting about the water’s edge
Mallards in flight
Not sure what kind of dove this is. Have asked some experts. . .
UPDATE: Eurasian Collared-Dove
Cormorant off the pier
Yumi shot me on the pier
We came across this massive old log that must have been part of a logging operation
Spent several hours wandering the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary in Delta, BC, today.
Damn but we’re cute, aren’t we?
We were planning to go to the Squamish Days Loggers Sports Festival today, but the highway was so jammed that we bailed before the Second Narrows Bridge, and decided to go for a walk around Deer Lake instead.
Bees were sipping water from lilies
Double trouble. . .
Waxwing
I took my daily walk early this morning to beat the heat, but it’s topped out around 25-26C this afternoon, much better than the last few days.
Lovely mini clouds today!
This Northern Flicker played peekaboo, constantly flitting about as if to prevent me from getting a clear shot :-).
Barely caught the spectacular moon early this morning just before it dropped below the horizon over the river at Fraser Foreshore Park in Burnaby, BC. Then I hung around for the sunrise.
Sunrise over the mouth of Byrne Creek
The City of Burnaby has declared a total fire ban in Burnaby Parks, including smoking. Yet on my Byrne Creek Ravine Park walks, I keep seeing butts on forest trails every day.
It’s tinder-dry out there folks.
Most of the butts in these photos (all taken in about a half-hour span today) are mixed in with extremely flammable material.
This Canada Goose came soaring over the treeline, appeared to misjudge its landing, and came in hard into Deer Lake in Burnaby, BC.
Or perhaps it didn’t mean to land in the water lilies, and had to churn to make it.
You can stare at a pool of water (see the last photo in this series), and see nothing. Then, suddenly, you spot one frog. And another, and another. . . Interesting how perception works. Once your brain gets the pattern, then you really see. . .