Birding at Minoru Park & Sunset watching at the Dyke

My mother and I went grocery shopping in downtown Richmond today. Before that, we decided to do a little bit of birding around Minoru Park. It was the usual birds but they were preening a lot today.

Mallard preening.

Female Common Merganser.

The male.


Female merganser swimming by.

Can't forget one of the commonest creatures in the park nowadays - park bunny. You can sort of see my reflection in the bunny's eye - that's how I close I was to it and how unafraid it was of humans. Not good.


Some pretty colors to lighten the relatively gray and brown winter.


Another common creature of the park - Eastern Gray Squirrel (black morph).

In the afternoon, after we got back home, I quickly biked to the dyke to enjoy the sunset.

Getting darker.




Beautiful sunset.


Moon is entering into the sky now too.

365 days ago (2009-01-23) ... Interestingly, we are waiting for the manager to come and fix (or should I say replace) our kitchen sink again. Darn this stupid old appliance.
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