Burnaby MLAs Jane Shin, Raj Chouhan, and Kathy Corrigan, and MP Kennedy Stewart, toured Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby, BC, today. Volunteers from the Byrne Creek Streamkeepers Society led the tour, and talked about the importance of urban biodiversity, the salmon lifecycle on the creek, and shared some of the activities and data collection that streamkeepers have been conducting annually for many years.
Took a two-hour walk along Fraser Foreshore Park in Burnaby, BC, today.
Turkey Vulture
Rockin’ Robin high five : -)
Peekaboo garter snake. Saw three today!
Rufous Humingbird
Sparrow
Busy bee
Burnaby skyline from Foreshore Park
Cranefly
Another garter snake
Damselfly
Just saw this on Twitter, and it looks like fun.
Sunday, April 24 from 10:00 am at the Cameron Recreation Centre in Burnaby, Bc.
On our post-work south slope Burnaby walk today we saw not one, but two, garter snakes.
Yee-haw! We’ve been seeing them less often over the years, so it’s wonderful to know they’re still around.
They are totally harmless to humans, and if you’re a gardener, they eat slugs : -).
Fingers. Cuts. I cannot explain this photo aside from somehow today I ended up with three bandaids. Yes, three times today I noticed I was bleeding, and yes, for all three times, I have no idea what I did…
Duh. I shot this photo during a shoot at the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary back in February, filled the card, swapped cards, and forgot to download the images on this card until today!
Red-Winged Blackbird boys feeling their oats and getting into some aerial martial arts
Couldn’t have asked for a nicer day to lead a couple of short tours of Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby with grade 8 art classes from Byrne Creek Secondary.
The kids also did some garbage cleanup along the way and discovered this hitchhiker. In this case it’s a snail on ketchup, not ketchup on a snail : -).
I’m in lust for a new Nikon D500 DSLR. Based on specs this would be an amazing wildlife camera. Huge usable ISOs, blazing motor drive, prescient focus and exposure systems…
I think it may be time to sell some older Nikon gear, and sign up for the latest and greatest.
I think I’ll keep my aging D300, not much money to be made from that, and it’s still a solid camera. I use it with some of my ancient all-manual Nikkor lenses. And it was my first DSLR, so there are the emotional ties. (Just like I’m hanging on to my film Nikon F2 though I haven’t shot film in over a decade… Memories : -)
I think the one to go is the mid-range D5200. It’s served me well for a couple of years, but it doesn’t cut the pro mustard in usability. It has great resolution for its price class, but it’s not an action camera. Too much stuff is buried in menus that semi-pro and pro models have more to hand with extra buttons. I hate having to click through screen menus when I want to change something quickly in the field.
Bonus? If I’m reading specs right, a D500 would use the same batteries as my D7100 and D7200. Wow!
What a lovely day for a south slope walk! All shot with my little Canon pocket cam on the urban trail between Edmonds and 22nd Stations
It was a soggy day for a chum fry release on Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby, but three classes of kids from Taylor Park Elementary were in high spirits. It’s always a blast releasing these wee fish.
DFO Community Advisor Maurice talks salmon
Leading the kids up to the tank
DFO tech Scott prepares baggies
Netting fry out of the tank
Volunteer John directs traffic
Volunteers Ray, Lori, Rob, and Murray, assist in release technique
Scott’s done hundreds of such releases yet look at that grin!
Yep, the fish was really this big 🙂
