Well here we are at the middle of the month and if you ignore the snow capped hills all around us…
not a bad day at all!
Kind of a funny day though so I don’t have a lot to offer…there was a strong, cold wind blowing straight into the log bay, probably the reason for not much activity although there were Tree Swallows flying around again, now we have some sunshine. I looked for those Greater Yellowlegs, but no sign of them even though my husband assures me they were there again last night. You’ll notice there has been no sign of the Geese the last little while either – probably a sign they are now nesting and therefore being very secretive.
Speaking of nests, the Bushtit one looks pretty much complete…there were Bushtits coming and going…
Yesterday there were Ruby Crowned Kinglets everywhere…and although there were some today, it was Golden Crowned Kinglets, like the guy above, that were most in evidence.
I managed a decent shot of one of our local Chipmunks today…Townsend’s Chipmunk I believe they are….larger and darker than the ones found in the interior…
and thought I’d throw in a Dark Eyed Junco since there must be literally hundreds of them around right now. Any of us with feeders are over run. I was trying for a shot of a particularly attractive ‘piebald’ that has been around for the past week or so…but no luck. Also no luck getting a shot of the beautiful male Anna’s Hummingbird that sampled the feeder I had just put out in a new location, moments before. Up until about 3 years ago we never saw Anna’s over this side of the Fraser River…which is why I don’t even have a file photo of one!
and speaking of Hummingbirds…wanted to throw in this picture of a Flowering Red Current. This is a native shrub that Rufous hummingbirds time their arrival to coincide with it’s blooming. There are a few of the native Red Currents in the general area of the estuary, but many people living in the area have planted this ‘showier’ domesticated variety that was developed by the Botanical Gardens at U.B.C…..the hummingbirds find it equally attractive.
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