I went down to Stewart Heritage Farm in south Surrey, BC, for a photo ramble today. It was hot, but I tanked up with water and wandered the area for about three hours.
Hawk in South Surrey near the Stewart Heritage Farm. Would this be a Red-Tailed light morph?
This Anna’s Hummingbird played hide and seek for about half an hour : – )
We took a walk from Byrne Road all the way east past the railway bridge and to the meadow. Then we returned, and walked west to the confluence of Sussex Creek and the Fraser. Here are a few avian highlights:
Yumi spotted this Belted Kingfisher and I grabbed a few shots from a distance. When we tried to get closer it immediately took off.
Squawking Great Blue Heron
Nice when a single leaf provides shade when it’s 27 C out! š
Black bear at the campground at Nairn Falls Provincial Park south of Pemberton, BC, this morning. We’d just finished our breakfast and were packing up our camping gear when Yumi Kosaka spotted it calmly ambling through the woods scarfing berries.
No worries, these were shot a respectable distance away with the equivalent of a 600mm telephoto.
Then a little girl of around six or seven came by on her wee bicycle, saw us watching the bear, and began to drift in the bear’s direction like a moth to a flame.
“Whoa, sweetie, you stay right here.”
Other adults appeared and began passing the word, and as we drove out we spotted the campground attendant and let her know where the bear was, what direction it was moving in, and that it was happily feeding on natural resources.
After camping overnight at Nairn Falls Provincial Park, we took the long way home via the Duffey Lake Road and Lytton. We like doing this loop at least once a year.
We love this short hike to Nairn Falls at Nairn Falls Provincial Park near Pemberton, BC. We’ve done it many times over the years and it never fails to impress.
Sora the Rascal checking out mommy’s lunch (do I smell kamaboko fish cake with your zaru soba?), and then pulling daddy’s freshly laundered socks off the drying rack and playing with them.
I took a walk along the Fraser River in New Westminster today. I usually focus on nature and wildlife, but to keep my vision stimulated, my self-assignment today was man-made shapes and colours.