I Like Your White Booties!

Taken from about 30 feet away on the second floor sunroom on April 23 is the first Rufous hummingbird (probably a female) that I’ve managed to photograph in our backyard with any degree of clarity. 

A Day for Black Oystercatchers

This gallery contains 3 photos. Since our first encounter with them, Black Oystercatchers have been quite approachable shorebirds, but I didn’t expect them to actually fly into our vicinity.

A Wild Goose Chase

This is “The Spat at Piper Spit.” Despite all the Canada Goose goslings who were being trotted out for adoring crowds, there were still brawls going on at Burnaby Lake. This two-way territorial tussle between two Canada Geese 

A Rash of Springtime Goslings

This gallery contains 3 photos. You’ll have to excuse the softness of these photos. 🙂 Canada Geese are so adorable when they’re small. These little ones are feeling drowsy after their morning swim at the Reifel Migratory Bird

Deja View with A Lesser Scaup

This gallery contains 2 photos. One of a co-ed flock of five Lesser Scaups, a small diving duck species that make up the less common waterfowl population at Piper Spit / Burnaby Lake. This is the closest that I’ve gotten to a male Lesser Scaup