They’re still at it, cleaning out our feeder a couple of times per day. The chickadees appear to be better at flight control than the nuthatches, but occasionally get into spats, too.
I need to remember the histogram display — it’s hard to see if highlights are blown out when you’re viewing on a small screen outdoors, but display the histogram for a shot and it’s clear what’s happening with the exposure.
My presentation at the Metrotown Burnaby Public Library this evening on the history of Burnaby watersheds and what streamkeepers do. Fourteen people, not bad. . . Yumi took the photos.
The BPL poster for the event. Thanks for inviting me!
SEHAB site visit to see the repairs being done to the damaged Bonaparte Fishway in the BC interior.
Quite the project in a difficult area to access and work in! The fishway enables passage for fish to about 120 kilometers of river upstream of these rapids.
SEHAB is the Salmonid Enhancement and Habitat Advisory Board to Fisheries and Oceans Canada. These volunteers meet three times a year to gather comments and advice from stewardship groups across BC and share them with DFO Regional HQ.
These Google Earth images are of the approximate area in BC (near Logan Lake) that I saw in a recent presentation. When you think of the impacts of losing all that forest cover on watersheds and downstream communities. . .
Same area, one shot from 1984 the other 2016.
The presenter was adamant that flooding in interior communities was not mostly due to climate change as some claim, but mostly due to poor forestry practices.
When you take all the trees, there’s no transpiration of precipitation, and nothing to slow down runoff.
Yes we need forestry jobs, but this does not appear to be a good way to save either the environment or the economy.
SEHAB site visit to Tsútswecw Provincial Park (Roderick Haig-Brown) today. Thanks to Dave Smith and others for meeting us there and doing a walkabout.
SEHAB is the Salmonid Enhancement and Habitat Advisory Board to Fisheries and Oceans. These volunteers meet three times a year to gather comments and advice from stewardship groups across BC and share them with DFO Regional HQ.
I’ve been an alternate and full board member of the Salmonid Enhancement and Habitat Advisory Board to the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans for some nine years now.
We meet three times year, and board members collect and share information from stewardship groups from across British Columbia. We have expert speakers in, and tour local habitat restoration sites, dams, fish ladders, etc.
We distill all that information, positive and negative, and report to senior DFO management at Pacific Regional HQ.
Here are a few shots from our latest meeting in Kamloops, BC:
When I have time, I love to take the slower side roads, so that I have more opportunity to stop for photos, and spot more wildlife.
Heading north on the 5A in BC toward Kamloops.
I spotted these deer near the Princeton BC airport by the CT-133 Silver Star trainer “weathervane.”
A few shots from our recent camping trip to Nairn Falls. We drove up the Pemberton Meadows Road and saw some cool stuff.
A young Black Bear
Came across this unfortunately mashed wee snake near the bridge crossing the Lillooet River just off the Pemberton Meadows Road.
Some creative person added eyes and a forked tongue to this fallen tree between Nairn Falls and One Mile Lake.
When uninvited guests arrive at the picnic table, sometimes it’s best to give them their own place setting : – ) . . .
Looks like we may be in for some moisture. . .
Southridge Drive and Ron McLean Park in south Burnaby, BC, on our evening walk.
