This gallery contains 2 photos. This Long-Billed Curlew was doing the one-legged tree pose for so long that we thought we were looking at an amputee! She (females have longer and much more decurved bills than the males, Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2016
2 Pine Siskins
This gallery contains 2 photos. Although not irrupting in the numbers that they were early last year, we are getting a regular number of visits from these adorably tiny finches. They may be small, but I recently witnessed Continue reading
A Day for Dunlins
This gallery contains 3 photos. This is the second time I’ve seen Dunlins since first spotting a small flock huddled together in their breeding plumage, with black belly patches and russet red feathers, on the end of the Continue reading
Townsend’s Solitaire
They’re not juniper berries, but this medium-sized grey bird–which is rarely seen here in BC (so rare, as a matter of fact, that my sighting of it actually required filing late last year as a rare bird alert in BC Continue reading