Sanderlings Redux!

This gallery contains 5 photos. If Pixar’s amazing 2016 animated short film, Piper, has got you jonesing for a fix of small, cute sandpipers, then you’ve come to the right post and

Brant Geese

This gallery contains 3 photos. While considered a fairly cosmopolitan species, these dainty geese are usually sighted in Metro Vancouver in small flocks during the colder

Black-Bellied Plover

This gallery contains 2 photos. An itch to go outside and bird on a sunny if moderately windy afternoon in late July 2016 led me to this solitary Black-Bellied Plover on the shores of Boundary

Northern Harriers

This gallery contains 4 photos. With her dark brown feathers and streaky breast, I’ve always found the female Northern Harrier to be more beautiful than the male Northern Harrier (

Bonaparte’s Gull

This gallery contains 2 photos. Birding Boundary Bay Regional Park on Global Big Day 2016 (May 14) didn’t net me any new species for my life list, but it let me get closer to that distinctively dressed gull species, an

Moms Extraordinaire

This gallery contains 4 photos. Perhaps no bird symbolizes maternal devotion to offspring more than the common Wild Duck (Mallard). These mothers singlehandedly rear and fledge

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 

Semipalmated Plover

I’m closing out 2015 with blogpost #803 and a very special bird. I missed seeing one of these tiny plovers during the summer (mentioned in reply to one of my WordPress followers on my Killdeer post earlier this year),

4 Bald Eagles

This gallery contains 4 photos. I wanted to have a closeup of this fully mature Bald Eagle roosting at the top a dead birch tree on the Raptor Trail portion of Boundary Bay Regional Park … but it decided, at 30 feet away, that it was