Beating the Odds

It’s not every day that you meet a published author, and have the opportunity to build a special connection with them, but through one of my posts in the Twitterverse, I came to know Bernice L. Rocque, fellow blogger, family historian,

Lady Varied Thrush

This gallery contains 2 photos. This gorgeous lady came and stayed for three days in mid-November. She confined her peregrinations to the front of the house, (unintentionally) posing on the pyracantha bush on the front

White-Crowned Sparrows

This gallery contains 2 photos. Call them anti-social, but like Song Sparrows, I have rarely seen White-Crowned Sparrows in the company of their own kind; they are more likely to be fraternizing with the much more social

4 Dark-Eyed Juncos

This gallery contains 4 photos. One of the most fun autumn birds I’ve had the opportunity to photograph, since first spotting them in the backyard in 2013. They battle constantly for food (even when there is plenty!), and these

Ruddy Turnstone

This gallery contains 2 photos. This gorgeous loner had no qualms about the myriad of lenses pointed his way on an early sunny fall afternoon at the south side of the Tsawwassen Ferry Jetty. In fact, I’d swear he was

Savannah Sparrows

This gallery contains 2 photos. Savannah Sparrows are infrequent visitors to Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary — at least, on my visits to the local wildlife refuge. Surrey’s Blackie Spit and the Boundary Bay’s Wildlife

On Swan Lake

This gallery contains 2 photos. Far easier to distinguish than Tundra Swans and Trumpeter Swans by virtue of their knobs and bright orange bills, a beautiful pair of Mute Swans gazes into my lens as they leisurely ply

Fishy Friends

This gallery contains 6 photos. Here are some more fishy friends I met over a few visits to the Vancouver Aquarium. My photos actually turned out somewhat respectably, given the low light; fast moving subjects; lack of 

(Un)Common Goldeneyes

This gallery contains 4 photos. I’d been hoping that this single lady–aptly named for her glowing ember orbs–would return to the new Centennial Beach pond–and she did! Her curiosity got the better of her, and this time she swam even