There were a couple of Great Blue Herons fishing the ponds at Fraser Foreshore Park in SE Burnaby, BC, today.
I find it amazing how they catch a fish or other prey, and then rotate it so the snack is parallel to the throat for easy ingestion. No hands!
UPDATE: Apparently that’s a Northwestern Salamander going down the hatch. . .
I had great fun photographing this Anna’s Hummingbird near Taylor Park in SE Burnaby, BC. I started shooting from a distance, and slowly moved in closer.
At one point I was standing underneath it, but was shooting into backlight, so I wondered if it would hang around while I climed a six-foot embankment to get a better angle.
I was gratified that it waited for me :-).
I liked the diagonal effect of this robin and the blossoms
Spotted Towhee singing
American Goldfinch and Anna’s Hummingbird in SE Burnaby, BC.
Spectacular colours!
This Cedar Waxwing posed patiently for 10 – 15 minutes this afternoon at Fraser Foreshore Park in SE Burnaby, BC.
There were a couple of Bald Eagles in the area of the pond just west of the mouth of Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby, BC, this afternoon. They have a nest further west, and it appears one of them may have been repair materials.
A few minutes after I started out on my Byrne Creek ravine walk in SE Burnaby, BC, this morning, I heard several crows doing an intruder alert.
I followed the noise, suspecting they were harrassing an owl or a hawk, but I had trouble spotting anything.
As I wriggled my way closer through the bush, I finally noticed a lump on the tree the crows were focused on, and eventually it became evident the lump had a ringed tail, and then this face came into focus 
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A few more birds seen on our morning walk at Fraser Foreshore Park inSE Burnaby, BC, this morning.
Yellow Warbler
Turkey Vulture
Downy Woodpecker
Cedar Waxwing
What a great way to end our walk today! We rambled Fraser Foreshore Park in SE Burnaby for several hours this morning, got back to the car, drove a block and . . . Sandhill Crane.
We rambled Fraser Foreshore Park in SE Burnaby, BC, for several hours. One of the highlights was watching this Northern Flicker eating ants, and possibly stealing a grub from them, too.
