March 13, 2006
Snowy Owls at Boundary Bay
My wife and I drove down to Boundary Bay at the south end of 72nd St. in Delta this morning to check out sightings of snowy owls sent to us by a birder friend. It was a sunny day, and I took some time off to celebrate finishing another course yesterday in my MA in Communications program at Royal Roads University.
There were several families out on this spring break day.
One of many snowy owls hanging out in the driftwood.
I took the above photograph by holding my tiny Canon SD400 digital camera up to the eyepiece of my 8X binoculars. Crude and not very effective :-).
You can see much better photos in our friend Masaaki's article that he shot with a digital camera mounted with an adapter on a spotting scope.
We saw about ten snowy owls, dozens of eagles, several herons, and assorted shorebirds, gulls and ducks. It would be nice to have a spotting scope and a superzoom digital camera, or a Digital SLR with a honking telephoto lens!