It increasingly appears that Putin has lost the war he started. Nothing has gone as he thought it would.
Far from welcoming Russian forces with open arms, Ukrainian men and women have fought back with dedication, tenacity, and furiousness beyond anything he anticipated.
It is clear that Russian forces are not into the fight, abandoning tanks and equipment, and crying on camera when captured.
It is only those who do not see what’s happening on the ground who are still firing cruise missiles, rockets, and long-range artillery.
Thousands of Ukrainian civilians have picked up arms to defend their homeland. More thousands of diaspora Ukrainians are trying to get back to the “old country” to fight.
With bombing and missile attacks on Ukrainian schools and hospitals, even maternity wards, Putin has committed war crimes.
Putin is apparently now taking his frustrations out upon the FSB, the decendants of the KGB where Putin put his psychopathic talents to use in his younger years.
Unfortunately, thousands more will die and be injured in this madman’s quest — for what?
We heard a Raven on our Byrne Creek walk in SE Burnaby, BC, today, and eventually spotted it high up in a tree.
After a minute it took off, and to our surprize a hawk chased after it. I got some decent shots of the perched Raven, but the pursuit happened so quickly that I got only this ghostly shot — but I kinda like it!
This Great Blue Heron was fishing in Byrne Creek in Burnaby, BC. I saw it take several small fish, likely Coho fry that began popping out of the gravel a week or two ago. In this video you see it take something larger, perhaps a Coho smolt (yearling) or a small trout.
Again there were lots of birds on my Byrne Creek walk in SE Burnaby, BC, this morning. I posted a series of shots of a Great Blue Heron in the previous post, and here’s an assortment of others.
I saw this Great Blue Heron overlooking the sediment pond in the Byrne Creek spawning habitat in SE Burnaby, BC. I wanted to check the pond for fry, and when I got closer the heron took off, and circled across the road.
Sure enough when I crossed the road 15 minutes or so later, there it was on the upstream side of the culvert.
I think it may also be happy that Coho salmon fry are emerging in the creek!
Yay, we have Coho salmon fry in Byrne Creek! Yumi spotted fry the other day, and today we took a look and saw dozens in the vicinity of the footbridge in the lower ravine.
Hard to get a good shot, but you can make out the pale orange caudal fin and the black/white stripes on the anal fin on the fish in the foreground.
Wonderful to see after the creek was hammered by the massive flows from the atmospheric rivers, and many releases of silt from construction sites.
