It's been more than half a year into the new year, but I just finished deleting unwanted photos from 2016. As I don't remember much about last year, this post will be more of a picture album than I want it to be.
Sep 10, 2016
Boundary Bay
Mid-August to mid-September is always a good time to see different species of shorebirds migrating south along the shorelines. Many of them will not be bothered by the presence of a photographer if you are willing to wait for the tide to push them closer to shore.
Baird's Sandpiper and American Pipit walked toward me to as close as 3 meters while I sat on a log.
Baird's Sandpiper
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| Baird's Sandpiper |
Pectoral Sandpiper
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| Pectoral Sandpiper |
American Golden-plover
The closest one. Smaller than the Black-bellied Plovers behind it.
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| American Golden-Plover |
American Pipit
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| American Pipit |
Mountain Seymour
Lincoln's Sparrow
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| Lincoln's Sparrow |
Vancouver
Lewis' Woodpecker
A rare woodpecker visitor from the interior. I think this is a weirdo woodpecker as it prefers fly catching insects over drumming the trees. It spends most of its time sitting on this perch and hawking different winged insects. I was happy to tick off two lifers on the same day, the first was the Rock Wren which I got even better looks on the next day.
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| Lewis's Woodpecker |
Sep 25
Maplewood Conservation Area
Rock Wren
Another interior bird showed up near my place in North Vancouver.
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| Rock Wren |
Anna's Hummingbird female
Black-tailed deer
A fawn crossing the trail. Deer are seen here almost every week.
Oct 30
Boundary Bay
Snow Goose
Geese flocks are coming in at large numbers. Most of them are White morph but a few are Blue morph. The second one from the left is a blue morph immature.
Barred Owl
Only opened one and a half sleepy eyes, a good sign that I did not stress it out.
Blackie Spit
Eurasian Wigeon is almost as common as American Wigeon here, there are so many of the that 3 males are in the background.
Long-billed Curlew
Nov 6
Reifel
First bird is not a bird. A wooden duck is not a wood duck.
Mallard male
Neither a wooden duck nor a wood duck
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Reifel is the only place around Vancouver that you can regularly see night-herons.
Great-horned Owl
is also pretty reliable here.
Boundary Bay
Northern Harrier
you probably won't find this many of them anywhere else in Vancouver and Fraser Valley.
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| male |
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| females |
Cooper's Hawk
Barn Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Nov 11
Vancouver
California Scrub-Jay
This was at least the third location I had tried to get this bird in the past few years. Lucky it was still in the same general area after I ran back to the car to grab my camera.
Terra Nova
Pied-billed Grebe
Mink
This one is whiter than all of the other minks I've seen so I wasn't sure what I was looking at when it poked its head out.
Coyote
Looks just like and seen almost as often as a regular dog here.
Nov 14
Jericho
Clay-colored Sparrow
not your average sparrow along the Pacific Northwest.
Palm Warbler
Also a pretty good bird to have at the same location.
Northwestern Crow
Nov 27
Stanley Park
Canada Goose
this small individual is probably an Aleutian.
Dec 4
Boundary Bay
Hundreds of Bald Eagles gather around the mouth of Fraser River during winter every year. Not all Bald Eagles have white heads and not all raptors with white heads are Bald Eagles.
Bald Eagle
adult with white head and tail
Great Blue Heron
Having a rodent snack
Red-tailed Hawk
this juvenile hasn't obtained its red tail yet.
Trumpeter Swans
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