Spent a few hours wandering Spanish Banks in Vancouver. Lots of action near the creek outfall.
Crow aerobatics
The outfall of Spanish Banks Creek into the bay was a popular bathing spot for crows.
Gulls were picking up shellfish and dropping them to crack them open.
What a gorgeous day to wander the beach at Spanish Banks in Vancouver for a few hours today!
We watched this lovely Northern Flicker for several minutes as it groomed itself on a snag near lower Byrne Creek in Burnaby, BC.
Sunny stroll along Fraser Foreshore Park and lower Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby, BC, today.
Found this expired bee on the way back from the post box today. What a beauty!
It was a gorgeous day at Centennial Beach in Delta, BC, today. Had fun with my Sigma 10-20mm ultra-wide zoom, which I don’t use that often.
Chasing butterflies, damselflies, and a wasp.
Birds at Centennial Beach in Delta, BC, today.
I’ll throw a bunny in here, too, seeing as It’s likely on the Harrier menu. . .
The hunter. . .
and the hunted.
Sparrow lunching on an ant
Sparrow lunching on a green bug
I just finished the delectable and moving collection of essays called The Global Forest: 40 Ways Trees Can Save Us by Diana Beresford-Kroeger.
Written some ten years ago. the book is prophetic, and the last few paragraphs resonate deeply today. A few snippets:
“. . .the children of this generation will want to help the planet and nature in a collective way. . . They will alter their parents’ ways. . . ”
“The media is filled with stories of nature’s abuse. . . There seems to be no end to greed. . .”
“But the children exist. . . the consumerism of their lives bores holes of unbearable solitude. They are already reaching for something else, something elusive, something that is color-blind to race. It is called dignity, the dignity of life, all life.”
A wonderful book for those who love and nurture nature, and who can lose themselves in gorgeous writing. I often found myself rereading paragraphs and even entire essays.
Killdeer at Iona Beach Regional Park near YVR. Thinking it may be nesting? They nest in the open, apparently shifting around with some pretend sites to confuse predators.
