Then I didn't took any photos until I go to Terra Nova - watching this lonely female Hooded Merganser taking a nap.I saw several Great Blue Herons today. This was one of them. It didn't seem to pay much attention to me when I was biking behind its back. So I stopped and took a few photos.
After it stabbed into the water and caught nothing, the heron turned around and was kind of surprised to see me there and also kept walking towards me.
Eventually, it flew to the other side of the ditch to be left alone.
Taking photos of the Snowdrops (in the background) and this single Hyacinth plant (Previously seen here)
While biking along the dyke, I kept looking out to the ocean and thinking that on the other side of the ocean, there are tens of thousands people suffering because of the earthquakes, tsunamis, and the latest string of nuclear explosions. I really hope the worst is over for Japan. I was also thinking how high a tsunami would look if one were to strike the west coast.
The Forsythia shrubs have flower buds now, and a few are even flowering (previously seen here). In it was a midge (Family Chironomidae) that we will see now when we cross the dyke trail.
Too fast to photograph.
There was a pair of Brown Creepers gleaning for insects, with several robins around them.
Another heron that I encountered today.
It stabbed into the water, and first I thought it was a (halibut!?) fish.
Turned out to be a piece of wood or leaf.
On the ground, across from the eagle's nest by the golf course, someone dropped their wing (dinner?).
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