4 days into the new year

4 days into the new year and decade and I've been hard put to find anything to post!  The weather has been a bit of everything, mainly cloudy, often wet, a glimpse of sun, some hail and wind....

This is the scene at the boat launch right now.

and this was the log bay this morning...you can see the water levels have come up a bit - not surprising with all the rain we had on New Year's Day.

This is one of the Bald Eagles that were there.  There was also a Kingfisher but not much else.

We've attempted several walks over at Harrison Bay, one was cut short due to rain, this one, on the 3rd was cut short when our neighbour/friend in that boat out there called to us and asked if we'd like to take a run up the river - well you can't say no to an offer like that! 

so this is the view of where we normally walk, from the river - the eagle nest is just to the right of the middle of the picture.

leaving the bay behind and heading up the river.

we are up the Harrison River, past the estuary, this area is still all part of the I.B.A. but even on the water, there wasn't a lot to see.  Some eagles and raven, a pair of loon, some mergansers and common golden-eye and a kingfisher, that was about it.

here, at this point, we've turned around and are leaving the Harrison River and the IBA, heading to the Fraser River.  In all we spent a couple of hours on the water, a real treat despite the fact it was January and getting chilly towards the end as the clouds got heavier.