We walked the dike near 72nd along Boundary Bay in Delta, BC, today, and then spent an hour or two at the North 40 Park Reserve. Lots of great “shooting” opportunities!
This shot of a Short-Eared Owl pursuing a crow is my fave of the day. Dunno if it would actually whack the crow, but it sure looks pissed off : – ).
I took several hundred shots of Northern Harriers, and these were about the only ones I’d publish : – ).
Frosty walk on Byrne Creek in Burnaby, BC. Herons, Teal, Wood Ducks. . . We were looking for salmon, and spotted about a dozen coho and large trout.
As we were sipping our coffees this morning we heard eagles. Looked out the window, and saw this pair of beauties. What a glorious way to start the day!
Great times with Stream of Dreams Murals Society building nest boxes at Central Elementary in Coquitlam.
It’s such joy doing the Stream of Dreams watershed education program, and then coming back to a school again and expanding the education and hands-on participation to other habitat enhancement.
The kids built homes for many bird families today. Looking forward to checking out the avian uptake in the spring!
I am increasingly troubled by friends and family who are falling into the right-wing and left-wing disinformation worlds.
It’s getting scary.
Friends and family that I’ve known for decades are getting sucked in and spouting shit that a fourth-grader could see vast holes in. . . Be it “right-wing or left-wing. . .”
We have a fragile democracy here in Canada. We have tens of thousands of folks who want to come here because conditions are so crappy in their home countries. Folks who would work their butts off to ensure we have a democracy in Canada because they have experienced totalitarian evil.
China and Russia are both dictatorships. Both have decades of experience and intent in subjugating people, and destabilizing democracies.
Democracies are by nature fragile because they do accept individual thought. That is worth protecting.
People are dying in Hong Kong, people are dying in Ukraine aspiring to democratic freedoms that we take for granted here.
Learn, read, remember. . . Don’t let the bastards get you down.
I walk this trail several times a week, and these ‘shrooms were not there just a few days ago. Well there were a few, but nowhere near what was there today. I love how they can, er, mushroom seemingly out of nowhere so quickly.
Didn’t expect to see spawning salmon on a dark, overcast, rainy day, but I did spot one coho and one chum in the Byrne Creek sediment pond.
It was a lovely walk, though. . .
Today’s Byrne Creek walk ended in near darkness. While I love this light, I’m looking forward to days getting longer again. . .
Almost home as darkness falls
Sora has been comforting me through my hacking cold. She’s stuck to me, and has grown accustomed to long snoozes in my recliner.
Here she is protesting that she wasn’t ready when I decided I had to get up and get a few things done today.
Spotted this cutie at the stop log in the sediment pond on Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby, BC. It bopped around a bit and then headed up the culvert. My heart stopped for a moment when I saw a heron in the culvert, but the little fuzzbutt made it past OK.
