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.
Beaver in the river at Fraser Foreshore Park in SE #Burnaby, BC, this morning.
This is only the third time I’ve seen a beaver at Fraser Foreshore Park though I’ve been photographing down there at least several times a month for decades.
At first I thought it was an otter, and I chased it along the bank of the river, mumbling “Oh!” “Wow!” “Oh!” — getting some weird glances from some dog walkers
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