- Jan 25 5:46 am
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Do you have bad weather birding adventures? Tuesday was a rare one that kept me indoors: a SE storm swirling up from Seattle, 10-15mm rain combined with nasty SE 59 gusting to 92km winds. I've never understood why we plant palm trees in Victoria but they make great flags on the ground; when they are bending right over, it's a day to read a good book. Not even Helly Hansen's could make it a birding day.
Jan 24_2018 (Wed) looked a little better with passing showers, no wind, and some sun breaks forecasted, so off I walked on the Galloping Goose to Colquitz River Park.
The rewards were not all birds, but the gorgeous shots of shimmering silver on the Gorge Waterway looking back on a black & white canvas of the Bay St bridge and City skyline, a brilliant Double Rainbow over Cecelia Ravine as the sun started to break through and the most amazing sun's rays streaking through mist rising off the Colquitz River and bouncing back up at right angles off the sun's reflection in the water.
A flock of 28 Cedar Waxwings, with their erratic flight pattern, landed in a Hawthorn bush right in front of me on the entrance trail into Colquitz and started eating the red berries. I pointed them out to a man passing and he pulled out a medium lens camera and seemed quite happy to get a few good shots before the flock headed off in the direction of Swan Lake.
I didn't find the Owls and the mudflats were too flooded for the sea birds who often venture in, but it was a wonderful adventure with some awe inspiring looks. Have you had those days where you thought, naw, but did it anyways?
Jan 24_2018 (Wed) looked a little better with passing showers, no wind, and some sun breaks forecasted, so off I walked on the Galloping Goose to Colquitz River Park.
The rewards were not all birds, but the gorgeous shots of shimmering silver on the Gorge Waterway looking back on a black & white canvas of the Bay St bridge and City skyline, a brilliant Double Rainbow over Cecelia Ravine as the sun started to break through and the most amazing sun's rays streaking through mist rising off the Colquitz River and bouncing back up at right angles off the sun's reflection in the water.
A flock of 28 Cedar Waxwings, with their erratic flight pattern, landed in a Hawthorn bush right in front of me on the entrance trail into Colquitz and started eating the red berries. I pointed them out to a man passing and he pulled out a medium lens camera and seemed quite happy to get a few good shots before the flock headed off in the direction of Swan Lake.
I didn't find the Owls and the mudflats were too flooded for the sea birds who often venture in, but it was a wonderful adventure with some awe inspiring looks. Have you had those days where you thought, naw, but did it anyways?