DFO, Byrne Creek Streamkeepers volunteers, City of Burnaby staff, and teachers, kids and parents from Stride Elementary released chum fry in Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby this morning. What a lovely day for this uplifting event!
Thanks to volunteers at the Bell-Irving Hatchery at Kanaka Creek who raised these wee fish.
It’s interesting how tentative many of these kids are in a natural environment, and how quickly and joyfully they adapt to it.
A riot of colours on my post-lunch walk along the urban trail beside the Skytrain line between Edmonds and 22nd stations.
It was a gorgeous day for a two-hour tour of Deer Lake Park in Burnaby, led by Henry DeJong, retired from Burnaby Parks. Lots of history, and plant and animal knowledge.
Hummingbird
Douglas Squirrel
Saw lots of egg masses today
Another egg mass
Little frog
Big frog
Hawk
Heron adding to its nest at the Deer Lake colony
Invasive Red-Eared Sliders
Dive! Dive! I think it was a Scaup : -)
Had a lovely loop of Ron McLean Park and Byrne Creek ravine. Happy to see lots of fry in the creek!
Cloud patterns
Blossoms in Ron McLean Park
On our south Burnaby walk we noticed this not quite sun dog, not quite rainbow effect.
I went to downtown Vancouver late this afternoon, a couple of hours ahead of the start of Coastal Connections, the gathering of students, faculty, consultants, and stewards in the fishy business.
Those hours proved productive as I got lots of shots of this Double-Crested Cormorant doing some successful fishing near Science World.
I guesstimate that it got a fish about once every three dives. Now if I could catch a fish once every three casts. . .
UPDATE 4/19: Pelagic Cormorant?
Down the hatch!
Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, gives a deep, balanced interview on the Holodomor, the forced famine/genocide in Ukraine perpetrated by Stalin and the Soviet regime.
A benefit to walking the ravine in the rain is that you pretty much have it to yourself. Saw only one other person in a one-hour ramble. And the rain produces lush, soft colors.
We had a wonderful three-hour ramble round the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary today.
Sandhill Crane
House Sparrow? (I still have trouble with LBBs – – little brown birds : – )
Wigeons
Wigeon
Wood Duck female
Wood Duck male
Red-Winged Blackbird
Checking out the view from Yumi’s head
Brown-Headed Cowbirds
Chickadee
Crow
Downy Woodpecker
Golden-Crowned Sparrow
Great Blue Heron
LBB
LBB
LBB
Mallard
Merganser
Pintail synchro
Ring-Necked Duck
Rufous Hummingbird
Salmonberry
Spent several hours on this sunny day photographing architecture and people around Canada Place in downtown Vancouver. My wife Yumi met me there after work, and treated me to dinner at Happa Izakaya — thanks!
Here are a few shots:
