The Red-tailed Hawk family nested near our townhouse in Burnaby, BC, again this year. Nice to see them!
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Massive Highland Valley Copper Mine Near Logan Lake
I passed the Highland Valley Copper Mine west of Logan Lake, BC, on my camping travels. Wow! It’s huge. . .
A mining truck and tire on display in Logan Lake
Sad That TV Japan is Leaving Cable & Doubling in Price
We’re sad that TV Japan will no longer be available via cable. We’ve had a subscription here in Canada for many years at around C$18/month.
It’s the channel we watch together the most (my partner is Japanese), and it likely takes up the most PVR recordings.
It’s got amazingly photographed documentaries and nature shows.
Heart-warming family shows like Kazoku ni Kampai with Tsurube, and travel/history/geography/geology fave Tamori.
Morning talk show Asaichi that explores interesting places in Japan, good food, and social and health issues.
The quirky Instruction Manual Theatre.
Natural Grandeur of the East with its mind-blowing nature videos.
Somewhere Street that travels the world to document cities and their historical sites and local food. . .
Kokoro no Tabi in which we follow a crusty old dude who cycles around Japan to visit sites suggested by letters from viewers for sentimental reasons. . .
“My late mother loved walking a path to a beach near . . . .”
“The best years of my life were in elementary school in . . . where we’d climb a hill . . . ”
They are moving to an online streaming service — at US$25/month, or nearly C$40/month. Sigh. That’s over double. . .
We’ll probably cough it up, but sometimes “progress” sucks, eh?
Red-tailed Hawk, Great Blue Heron at Foreshore Park
It was quiet in the fog at Fraser Foreshore Park in south Burnaby, BC, this morning, but I did see a Red-tailed Hawk and a Great Blue Heron.
The heron was snoozing. It would take a quick look around, and then tuck back in . . .
35th Anniversary of My Only Marathon
It’s the Honolulu Marathon a week from today.
I still get emails to sign up — 35 years after the one and only time I did the Honolulu Marathon.
Well, my one and only marathon! 
Dang, I was skinny back then. . .
Three-Hour South Burnaby Birding Ramble
I walked from our place near Edmonds Skytrain Station all the way to Fraser Foreshore Park and back. With nature photography included, it was a nearly three-hour ramble.
This Double-crested Cormorant was in Byrne Creek just upstream of the bridge into Riverway Golf Course.
There were several Great Blue Herons along the way, some fishing, some snoozing.
Male Hooded Merganser scratching an itch in the pond just west of the outfall of Byrne Creek.
Female Hooded Merganser
Eurasian Collared Dove
Male Wood Duck
Two female Wood Ducks having a spat over dating rights to the male pictured above 🙂
Ring-necked Ducks
Bald Eagle and nest
Bufflehead
Burnaby Fraser Foreshore Wildlife
In addition to the Great Blue Heron fishing in my previous post, we enjoyed seeing lots of other wildlife in SE Burnaby, BC, earlier today.
Northern Flicker
Steller’s Jay
Pied-billed Grebe
Hooded Merganser
Wood Duck
Another Great Blue Heron
Anna’s Hummingbird
Gadwall
Dismayed by Western Leaders’ Meek Response to Putin
I’m finding the overall namby-pamby Western response to Putin’s manipulation toward WWIII dismaying.
Have we not learned anything? He’s a bully, and thrives on bullying. Perhaps we need some kindergarten teachers to step in where our political leaders will not.
This is bully behaviour, and needs to be nipped in the bud.
You name the metaphor, inch/mile, whatever.
He’s clearly stated he misses the days of the USSR when millions were killed, or enslaved, or sent to moulder in prison gulags in Sibera — by their own government.
The past he seeks to restore was horrific.
The past he seeks to restore benefited the Russian 0.5% — take your era, be it Tsars and the aristocracy, be it the Soviet leaders and their dachas, be it today’s toadies and corrupt “elite.”
Chuckling Creek at Alice Lake Near Squamish
I think this lovely cascading little waterway is called Chuckling Creek. At Alice Lake Provincial Park near Squamish, BC.
Eagles, Harrier, Herons in Delta, BC
Saw several eagles, herons, and a Northern Harrier at North 40 Park Reserve in Delta, BC, today, and along the Boundary Bay dyke.
Great Blue Heron
Northern Harrier