It’s been a great winter for beautiful skies in south Burnaby, BC, ranging from inspiring to moody. Here’s a shot taken from Taylor Park during a one-hour ramble on south slope trails.
Category Archives: Nature
Marauding Merganser
I watched this common merganser swim in the overflow pond and the sediment pond in the Byrne Creek artificial spawning habitat in SE Burnaby, BC. Don’t see these in Byrne that often.
After awhile I guess it had enough of being observed and flushed spectacularly, zooming right over us. I whipped my wee Canon pocket camera up and got this shot full of motion and blur, but I kinda like it!
Too bad I didn’t have a much faster DSLR at hand…
Eagle, Wintry Skies, Crescent Beach, BC
A chilly beach walk at Crescent Beach, South Surrey, BC.
Bald Eagle
Frosty Walk along Byrne Creek, Burnaby, BC
Rice Lake, North Vancouver, BC
Frosty Patrol for Spawning Salmon on Byrne Ck in SE Burnaby, BC
I had a frosty patrol for spawning salmon on Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby, BC. A two-hour ramble didn’t turn up any fish alive or dead. Methinks mayhap this year’s run is done.
Backlit art in the bus shelter on Southridge Dr. just above the pond
Shifting the POV a foot or two results in much different light
VanDusen Gardens Festival of Lights
Spectacular as always! Check out the Festival of Lights at VanDusen Gardens
Snow Dusts Heights on Sea to Sky
White Rock Photo Sojourn – Lovely Water, Sky, and Wildlife
Ferns, Fungi, Flow — A Byrne Creek Walk
I scoured Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby, BC, for spawning salmon this morning but saw none, dead or alive. There could possibly be a few hiding in the shadows of the sediment pond — the sun is so low on the horizon that even on a sunny day it can be hard to see into the pond.
It appears that this year’s salmon run may be drawing to a close on Byrne Creek. Volunteer streamkeepers occasionally see them through the end of November, and rarely into early December. It’s been a decent year for this creek, with a combined total of chum and coho approaching 40 fish.
On the way back up the ravine I took advantage of the post-rain sunshine to get some nature shots along the trail.
A forest in a drop of water