It is a beautiful province, known for our freshwater lakes & rivers.

Great Horned Owl nestling

The armrest in my wife’s Forester will support my weight 😆

One of the Owl triplets, shot through our Subaru’s moonroof. (600mm, very tight crop)

Two American Crows in the driveway when a Male and Female Mallard show up to crash the Crow cashew party.

Female Mallard eating cashews in the driveway.

Male and Female Mallard walking through our front yard.

Two American Crows enjoying cashews in the driveway.

#crowbro #corvid #birds #crow #corvid #Mallards #Twosday
#2sday
The Crows had the Mallards show up uninvited to the driveway cashew party.

Hi from Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦

A very iron rich preening for this crane🪶

Absolutely gorgeous blossoms in that soft light 😍

Gorgeous image!

Full breeding plumage Great-crested Grebe and its reflection. Taken at El Hondo Spain. Such elegant birds. #birds #birdsseenin2026 #birdphotography #birding #naturephotography

Orcas!! with Steveston Seabreeze Adventures.... YouTube video by Pacificnorthwestkate🇨🇦

I’d love you to watch the excitement of seeing Orcas - you can listen to the Naturalists on board (Jade & Steph) as they talk to us about the Orcas, how important it is we keep our distance and respect their home - the Salish sea!

Education, conservation, respect 🥰❤️🇨🇦

youtu.be/zrCdkUw0axY?...

Bald eagle in Delta BC 🇨🇦 20 April 2026 - I love where I live - eagles everyday! 😄🦅🖤

A red ant climbing around a pink and pale pink milkvetch flower. From Wikipedia: Astragalus andersonii is a species of milkvetch known by the common name Anderson's milkvetch. It is native to eastern California and western Nevada, where it is found in the plateaus at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, including the Modoc Plateau. The inflorescence is a projecting or upright array of 12 to 26 pealike flowers. Each flower is white, often purple-tinted or purple-veined, and between 1 and 2 centimeters long.

I’m envious of insects. What gorgeous habitats they explore.

Anderson Milkvetch
(Astragalus andersonii)

Two Black-crowned Night Herons, one just landing on the left as another leaves rapidly to the right, with food in its bill that it does not want to give up. In monochrome, SOOC.

#TwosDay, and #ClassicMono, and a Black-crowned Night Heron arrives to see if they can steal food from another one - who exists stage right. #Birds 🪶 #ECK #SOOC #OM3

Good morning Grumpy. 🪶

This works for both themes of #BirdOfTheDay, #Petals&Perches any bird with flowers in capture. The alt is #WhatTheFlock any capture of three or more of the same bird. #birds #photography #ECK #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited

From a couple of years ago, a Mama Wood Duck & 3 ducklings & Foxglove

🪶 Tree Swallow - it’s that time of year and each of these boxes had tiny peeps emanating from within! Can’t wait to see some fledglings!

#birding #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #birds #bird #spring

Look up, look waaaay up! And you just might find someone looking down at you! 😉 I spotted this porcupine yesterday evening near the top of a tree in Dunrobin. Get a load of those claws and teeth! #eastcoastkin #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #mammals #Porcupine #ontario #canada #nikon

Two slate-coloured juncos flit through the snow-filled air as a third one watches from a shepherd's hook.

Two slate-coloured juncos have an altercation over the black metal shepherd's hook. The one perched on it flaps his wings at the other who is hovering in front of him in the fluffy falling snow.

Three slate-coloured juncos execute their version of a Cirque du Soleil act in the falling fluffy snow. Two are floating in mid-air while the third watches from the shepherd's hook.

Two juncos float in the air filled with fat fluffy snowflakes while a third watches from a black metal shepherd's hook.

Junco aerial ballet in the snow. These guys have been a delight this last week. #birds

Sage Grouse looks out from cheat grass

Sage Grouse just off gravel road near camp, Harney County, Oregon. We surveyed several leks the next day but never got this close to displaying birds so as not to disturb. #birding

Rare (to us out west anyways) Eastern Phoebe at Whitaker Ponds yesterday, Multnomah County, Oregon #birding This guy is way off course!

Baby javelina crosses the camera, her white collar evident in this black and white photo, making it evident why they are called "Collared Peccaries." She's smiling, too.

Itty bitty mountain #javelina on #cameratrap. You can't tell, but this little red has red fur!

Giant boulders line a rocky/sandy beach as the tide is on its way out. A small tree covered peninsula can be seen in silhouette left in frame. The wind is blowing causing whitecaps to form on the blue sun soaked water. Wispy clouds dance across the deep blue mid day sky

The sheer joy of cancelled plans🎉

#RockInTuesday #TidesoutTuesday #photography #nature

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Petals&Perches any bird with flowers in capture.

When I think of birds and flowers raptors generally don't come to mind but here's a Striated Caracara perched in a thicket of gorse. From the Falkland Islands where the raptor is native but the gorse introduced. 🪶

A photo of a blackbird with red and yellow on its wings, perched on a cattail, with its beak wide open.

This red-winged blackbird looks like he saying something.

What do you think he's saying?

#birds #nature #wildlife

Beautiful photo, Patty!

A Mourning dove spreading its wings sitting on a turquoise bird bath.

A Mourning dove spreading its wings at the birdbath. 😊🪶

We paid an early evening visit to the Bald Eagle nest yesterday where one was perched high on a branch. Recorded a quick video with an #airplane flying by, heading to the Vancouver International Airport. #birds #photography #ECK #WestCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #Raptor

Awesome! Made me happy to read this 😀

“We hear you humans are joining the Bird Fan Club. We approve.”
(Blue Jay) #birds 🌿

The tail end of a bright yellow bird is seen as it flies out of the image. A green shrub is behind that has red flowers.

So close!

A Beautiful Hooded oriole - honest!

#WorstBirdPic

A small mostly gray bird is perched on a red flowering bush. We see him or her in profile looking off to our left. S/he has a yellow head, and a tiny red shoulder patch.

The verdin weighs 6.8gm. A single grape weighs around 5gm.
#Perches&Petals #BirdoftheDay #Birds #Nature #Photography