Well we are back after a wonderful 10 days away and some fabulous birding…I’ll be posting pictures on my other blog (birdingbyshantz) sometime in the future after I get them all downloaded and edited…
in the meantime we’ve just been for one quick walk, and it was showering at the time. The water levels have risen but not as much as we’d expected they would have…
they’re actually just up past where they were a month ago! The leading edge is at the marker post now.
I guess the main thing I noticed were the Wild Roses in flower – that was evident as soon as we hit Hope, as the highway is lined with flowering wild rose bushes…
love these simple flowers with the heavenly scent!
also noticed some ripening Salmon berries – that’ll make the robins happy. When we pulled up to our place last night there was a young robin in the yard so the first batch must be out and about. Didn’t notice a lot of birds today but could hear the Bullock’s Orioles calling down by the water and there were a couple of Yellow Warblers there as well. The usual suspects have been arriving back at my place now the feeders are full again and I’ve been hearing that there are all sorts of Hummingbirds around now – that was the case everywhere we’ve just been – up in the mountains at Manning Park where there was still snow in lots of areas, and then to the dryer but high areas near Merritt and Logan Lake – hummingbirds were everywhere!
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