Initially we saw few birds on our Brea Island ramble, but eventually came across a few.
There were four or five Brown Creepers hanging out together at one spot.
Golden-crowned Kinglet
Northern Flicker
Steller’s Jay
Red-breasted Sapsucker. It wouldn’t sit still for more than a few seconds at a time, so this fuzzy shot is the best one I got.
We walked to Tavistock Point on Brea Island near Ft. Langley, BC.
Lovely views despite the cold and cloudy day.
We had the good fortune to spot two Peregrine Falcons on the aptly named Raptor Trail at Centennial Beach in Delta, BC, today.
I think this is only the second time in my life that I’ve shot this species. Goodness they are gorgeous!
Days are getting longer!
I swung by Taylor Park in SE #Burnaby, BC, on the way home from the bi-monthly recycling trip to the Burnaby EcoCentre this afternoon.
Running some backups tonight I ran across this photo.
Edmonds City Fair in #Burnaby in 2018. I was hired as the event photographer, and my friend Lori Geosits saw me and got this shot of moi loaded with gear.
A couple of Nikon DSLRs with short and long zoom lenses, and a belt pack full of flash units and extra batteries.
It will be great to have such events again some day. Stay safe, folks. . .
Photo credit Lori Geosits. Thanks!
Took a stroll to Byrne Creek in south #Burnaby this afternoon. Spotted a few birds and some cool patterns.
Upside-down berry eating American Robin
Anna’s Hummingbird
Crow
Breathing new life into an old notebook.
I got this Dell G3 with an IPS full HD screen nearly two years ago, and despite its classification as a “gaming” machine with a dedicated video card with 4GB of VRAM, it always seemed sluggish.
I upgraded the stock 8GB of RAM to 16GB about a year ago, but that made little difference in boot time and app load time.
As I wrote the other day, the 1TB HD had been getting increasingly flaky, so I bought a 1TB SSD. Today I cloned the HD to the SSD, then opened up the machine and swapped the SSD for the HD.
Yowza. It seems to be booting up and loading programs in about half the time now.
Happy boy, eh?
Despite the wet, gloomy weather, I walked the lower portion of Byrne Creek in Burnaby, mostly because I was curious to see how high the river and creek were with the highest tide of the month and the rain.
This is a few meters upstream of the flap gates at the mouth of the creek
Red-tailed Hawk
A couple of Gadwalls in the pond just west of the creek outfall
Spotted Towhee
Golden-crowned Sparrow
I take after my late Mom. She liked to take recipes and “health them up.”
Yum, these turned out really well. Used the basic recipe off a Rogers Wheat Bran package for bran muffins, cut the sugar in half, added 1/3 cup oatmeal, about 1/2 cup of mashed pumpkin (yes, dating back to Halloween!), about 1/2 cup of blueberries, a dash of roasted pumpkin seeds, and some sesame seeds.
UPDATE (Dec. 21): Damn those were good :-). All gone four days later. Still some mashed pumpkin from Halloween in the fridge, so another batch on the way. . .
On my way home from a photo shoot at Iona Beach Regional Park near YVR I stopped at Fraser Foreshore Park in SE Burnaby, BC.
Great Blue Heron
Snoozing Great Blue Heron
Bald Eagles
Gadwall
Ring-necked Ducks
Golden-crowned Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Spotted Towhee
Male Wood Duck
Female Wood Duck