lots and lots of water out there. We even walked over to the park yesterday (the long way)
and there is the log bay....pretty much full to the brim! Now today we had to drive over to Abbotsford and noticed while crossing Nicomen Island that where ever there was some dry areas in the slough....there were Bald Eagles so if only we could get a bit of dry land around here I'm sure we'd be seeing some eagles. I've heard the water levels dropped a bit today, but then again we have more heavy rain forecast for tonight and temperatures remain so mild that no hope of some of that coming down as snow higher up.
Out of curiosity I decided to check back to this time a year or two ago and it gives a bit of hope....
this is how it looked on November 5th two years ago....not as high as today but still pretty high....and by the 14th, which is the first day of the festival this year....
this is the scene we were looking at....so lets all cross our fingers!
and what about the swans? where are they? I've heard that several large flocks were seen flying over Logan Lake, headed south, a couple of days ago so maybe....
The month of November isn't just eagle festival - it is also the month that Project Feeder Watch starts. If you feed birds and you don't already partake in this citizen science project it is worth considering doing so. For one thing it sure makes the winter go by fast! Each week you look forward to doing your count and sending in the data and then, before you know it, the last week is done and over with and it is spring! Thanks to this project some interesting facts show up. For example, my last posting I mentioned the Anna's Hummingbirds....well apparently last winter although the numbers of birds at feeders all across Canada were down, sometimes dramatically, these hummingbirds that were unheard of here just a few years ago, were at 45% of the feeders in British Columbia!
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