I find Steller’s Jays an endearing combination of curiosity, shyness, raucousness, and playfulness. This one hung about for at least half an hour as we chased each other around the parking lot at the Manning Park east entrance in southern BC.
Category Archives: Nature
Autumn Colours Linger in Fraser Foreshore Park
Nice to see that autumn colours have not completely faded yet in Burnaby’s Fraser Foreshore Park.
Sun Breaks Through a Rainy Day
Several streamkeeper volunteers took advantage of a sunny break and headed out to Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby. We saw six or seven chum, with some paired off and spawning!
Planting in the Rain, Yay!
Streamkeeper volunteers planted a dozen cedars provided by Burnaby Parks. We placed half a dozen in the Byrne Creek artificial spawning habitat, and half a dozen along the lower ravine trail. Great fun getting cold and wet!Â
Reveling at the Chill, the Rain
Gotta go to sleep, early shift tomorrow, but hearing what sounds like a few drops outside my window in south #Burnaby makes me happy.
Yes, I’m happy at the chill in the air, and the looming precipitation. Rain means salmon are coming. . .
All ya folks out there sad at the rain and the dark, get thee back outside, and feel, touch, smell the season.
Autumn is glorious, especially here in the lower mainland of BC.
Nighty night.
Byrne Creek Autumn Colours After the Rain
Byrne Creek was high and dirty after the rain, so nothing to see in the way of spawning salmon, but it was a gorgeous, sunny day for photos of autumn colours.
Mason Bee Reveal Shows ‘Profit’
We unrolled the paper tubes we’d set out over the summer, and opened the unit with plastic trays.
Excited to not only “preserve our capital” but notch a “profit” of a dozen cocoons. Our location in a townhouse with only a high balcony on which to set out bee houses is not the best, so we were happy with this year’s results!
Paper tubes rolled from the Burnaby Now proved to be much more attractive than plastic trays.
The supervisor was having trouble seeing the action and was meowking indignantly around our feet, so we eventually let her on the table, where she soon fell asleep 
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Soft Colours Grace Byrne Creek Autumn
Sometimes I like the soft, muted colours of an overcast day. Byrne Creek Ravine Park in SE Burnaby, BC. These were taken following a spawner patrol in which volunteer streamkeepers spotted our first salmon returning to spawn — several coho!
South Burnaby Autumn Colours
Gorgeous late afternoon light on our south Burnaby walk in the ‘hood.
Deer, Mountain Goats Between Lillooet, Lytton
Some wildlife along the road.
