Came across Choco the Cat getting into the Halloween spirit.
All her doing , not posed.
She’s always been an amazing cat with curtains and blinds. I’ve had cats who’ve shredded them, but from day one, Choco has delicately woven her way in and out with nary a snag.
Captured these shots on a Byrne Creek patrol for spawning salmon today. What a lovely day!
A couple of loons teased me at Lightning Lake in Manning Park in southern BC. They stayed just at the far end of good photo range, even with “Big Bertha,” my Tamron 150-600mm lens.
I find Steller’s Jays an endearing combination of curiosity, shyness, raucousness, and playfulness. This one hung about for at least half an hour as we chased each other around the parking lot at the Manning Park east entrance in southern BC.
Nice to see that autumn colours have not completely faded yet in Burnaby’s Fraser Foreshore Park.
Several streamkeeper volunteers took advantage of a sunny break and headed out to Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby. We saw six or seven chum, with some paired off and spawning!
Streamkeeper volunteers planted a dozen cedars provided by Burnaby Parks. We placed half a dozen in the Byrne Creek artificial spawning habitat, and half a dozen along the lower ravine trail. Great fun getting cold and wet!Â
Gotta go to sleep, early shift tomorrow, but hearing what sounds like a few drops outside my window in south #Burnaby makes me happy.
Yes, I’m happy at the chill in the air, and the looming precipitation. Rain means salmon are coming. . .
All ya folks out there sad at the rain and the dark, get thee back outside, and feel, touch, smell the season.
Autumn is glorious, especially here in the lower mainland of BC.
Nighty night.
Byrne Creek was high and dirty after the rain, so nothing to see in the way of spawning salmon, but it was a gorgeous, sunny day for photos of autumn colours.
We unrolled the paper tubes we’d set out over the summer, and opened the unit with plastic trays.
Excited to not only “preserve our capital” but notch a “profit” of a dozen cocoons. Our location in a townhouse with only a high balcony on which to set out bee houses is not the best, so we were happy with this year’s results!
Paper tubes rolled from the Burnaby Now proved to be much more attractive than plastic trays.
The supervisor was having trouble seeing the action and was meowking indignantly around our feet, so we eventually let her on the table, where she soon fell asleep 
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