Reflection

A red-breasted merganser with its reflection. For years, I waited at the lake for mergansers to come closer, but they never did. This year, there were mergansers galore. But they were hanging out near the boat jetty where the light wasn't great. But I could sit in a nook and they'd come so close to me. I embraced the light and the wabi-sabi reflection.

Unappreciated

A double-crested cormorant on the still waters of the marsh. The birds don't usually come closer to the edge but this one did. I was sitting at the edge, waiting. I quickly took this shot before it dived and disappeared. Not many people are excited to see cormorants, but they are beautiful in their own way.

Hiding Out

This Baltimore oriole fledgling was hiding out in the garden waiting for food.

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Wood Pecker

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Baltimore Oriole Fledgling

This oriole fledgling was hiding out in the garden waiting for food.

Pollen Transport

Worker bees collect pollen using stiff hairs on their bodies and specialized structures on their hind legs called pollen baskets (or corbiculae). To store the pollen for transport, they mix it with nectar and saliva to create a sticky, viscoelastic pellet that clings securely to these baskets. Once the baskets are full, the bee returns to the hive, where she must off-load the pellets herself by depositing them into empty wax comb cells. -- Web search

Pygmy Owl

During a recent trip to the Fraser Valley ( Chilliwack B.C ), I was able to go where Pygmy owls winter. I was in the area most of the day and leaving late afternoon, thinking that I didn't get lucky that day. This Pygmy was perched on a tree on the side of the road as I was leaving the area. It was getting pretty dark for shooting by this time.

Touch Down

This Great Grey Owl hunts in a field close to my home. The field is around 40 acres in size and is home to many rodents, such as mice, voles. This Great Grey swoops down on its prey and ascends so quickly that I almost missed the shot I was actually ready for with my 800mm Nikon.

Hot Springs Cove

The waterfall that flows into the pool at Hot Springs Cove, nothing better than a natural hot shower.

Hot Springs Cove

This is where the hot springs flow down to the ocean.

Hot springs cove

Did a visit to hot springs cove, such a great place. So neat to see the hot springs come out of the ground bubbling away

Beautiful demoiselle with blue marble eye

Demoiselle dragonfly , with those eyes shaped like blue marbles , exposure : 1/250 sec , , f/8 , Nikon D 3200 with 40mm Macro lens.

Reflection

A red-breasted merganser with its reflection. For years, I waited at the lake for mergansers to come closer, but they never did. This year, there were mergansers galore. But they were hanging out near the boat jetty where the light wasn't great. But I could sit in a nook and they'd come so close to me. I embraced the light and the wabi-sabi reflection.

Unappreciated

A double-crested cormorant on the still waters of the marsh. The birds don't usually come closer to the edge but this one did. I was sitting at the edge, waiting. I quickly took this shot before it dived and disappeared. Not many people are excited to see cormorants, but they are beautiful in their own way.

Hiding Out

This Baltimore oriole fledgling was hiding out in the garden waiting for food.

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Wood Pecker

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Baltimore Oriole Fledgling

This oriole fledgling was hiding out in the garden waiting for food.

Pollen Transport

Worker bees collect pollen using stiff hairs on their bodies and specialized structures on their hind legs called pollen baskets (or corbiculae). To store the pollen for transport, they mix it with nectar and saliva to create a sticky, viscoelastic pellet that clings securely to these baskets. Once the baskets are full, the bee returns to the hive, where she must off-load the pellets herself by depositing them into empty wax comb cells. -- Web search

Pygmy Owl

During a recent trip to the Fraser Valley ( Chilliwack B.C ), I was able to go where Pygmy owls winter. I was in the area most of the day and leaving late afternoon, thinking that I didn't get lucky that day. This Pygmy was perched on a tree on the side of the road as I was leaving the area. It was getting pretty dark for shooting by this time.

Touch Down

This Great Grey Owl hunts in a field close to my home. The field is around 40 acres in size and is home to many rodents, such as mice, voles. This Great Grey swoops down on its prey and ascends so quickly that I almost missed the shot I was actually ready for with my 800mm Nikon.

Hot Springs Cove

The waterfall that flows into the pool at Hot Springs Cove, nothing better than a natural hot shower.

Hot Springs Cove

This is where the hot springs flow down to the ocean.

Hot springs cove

Did a visit to hot springs cove, such a great place. So neat to see the hot springs come out of the ground bubbling away

Beautiful demoiselle with blue marble eye

Demoiselle dragonfly , with those eyes shaped like blue marbles , exposure : 1/250 sec , , f/8 , Nikon D 3200 with 40mm Macro lens.