With today being the last day of the holidays…we had hoped to get somewhere different…but the weather wasn’t conducive to going anywhere too exciting…so just went for a bit of a drive around nearby Deroche and Nicomen Island…
drove down along the slough on the north side of Nicomen, at Deroche – this is where all the Bald Eagles are hanging out, and have been for a couple of weeks now…didn’t take pictures of them…they had enough ‘admirers’ and I have ample opportunity for eagle pictures right here at home. Did take a picture of this Great Blue Heron that was posing nicely…
There were a lot of ducks down at the far end of the slough…all the usual types, Bufflehead, Mallard, American Wigeon, Ring-neck…took a picture of these male Common Merganser because they are notoriously difficult to get close enough to get a decent shot…
in another section of the slough we spotted a Double Crested Cormorant…
and then a bit further down, 6 of them lined up on this log…
crossing back over and driving down the dyke…saw a number of Great Blue Heron sleeping on the shore…this is an area where heron are often found like this. I can count 11 in this picture, think there are actually 12.
there is a closer look at 5 of them…
there were some female Common Merganser in the same area…so got a shot of them too…
normally when you drive across Nicomen while on some other errand…you see hundreds of Trumpeter Swans…today there was only 1 family…
here is a close up of one of the two young ones that were there.
swung back and went to a spot where we could walk the dogs…this is the Fraser River….it was getting really dark by then even though it wasn’t even 2 pm yet.
back alongside Harrison Bay. I’d mentioned yesterday the thousands of ducks on the bay…well they were still there today…
Primarily Mallard but also Northern Pintail…
and a bit further along, some American Wigeon mixed in with the Mallard.
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