The City of Burnaby has declared a total fire ban in Burnaby Parks, including smoking. Yet on my Byrne Creek Ravine Park walks, I keep seeing butts on forest trails every day.
It’s tinder-dry out there folks.
Most of the butts in these photos (all taken in about a half-hour span today) are mixed in with extremely flammable material.
This Canada Goose came soaring over the treeline, appeared to misjudge its landing, and came in hard into Deer Lake in Burnaby, BC.
Or perhaps it didn’t mean to land in the water lilies, and had to churn to make it.
You can stare at a pool of water (see the last photo in this series), and see nothing. Then, suddenly, you spot one frog. And another, and another. . . Interesting how perception works. Once your brain gets the pattern, then you really see. . .
I woke up at 4:30 this morning, and figured I might as well get out and enjoy the sunrise. But where? Thought the White Rock, BC, pier and Crescent Beach would be nice, and was rewarded for driving down.
There were several Great Blue Herons
Seal off the boat slip
Looking back up the pier
The view to the west
The view to the east
Crescent Beach
Looking north from Crescent Beach toward Vancouver
The hawk family we’ve been observing in Burnaby is getting close to splitting up. The kids are fledged, and while they’re still calling for their parents, we sense they’ll be off not too long from now.
It’s hard to see them with the trees fully leafed out, but we’ve been fortunate to spot them almost daily.
Gosh they are beautiful. And deserving of respect and privacy. So we never hang around or stare for more than a minute or two.
Shot this hawk in Burnaby a week or two ago, but didn’t get around to posting until today.
My knees were aching today so instead of doing the ravine we headed down to Fraser Foreshore Park. We walked from Byrne Road all the way to the east end of the trail, doing a loop in the bend park. Then we walked all the way west to the mouth of Byrne Creek, and also checked out a couple of the ponds to the west of the creek.
Yumi said she’d heard a waxwing, but it wasn’t until I downloaded today’s photos onto the computer that I realized I’d shot one.
Great Blue Heron preparing for takeoff from Byrne Creek
Same heron a moment later in the Fraser
Belted Kingfisher at max zoom and cropped tight, therefore fuzzy
Amazing Scientific Discovery! Proof that small cats roamed the earth in the Cement Age!
Houston? Do we have a problem?
The sandy wastes of Earth’s moon reveal a heretofore unknown green monster. . .
Shot with my new NikSigRon 18 – 96,000 zoom lens. . .
🙂
Had a visitor drop by for dinner this evening. Shot through our dining room window.
Yumi’s pleased as punch for she just took the feeder down, cleaned it carefully, and refilled it with a fresh concoction.