March 22, 2008
Reifel Sanctuary Birding Foray
The Easter weekend brought a lot of people out to the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary in BC's Lower Mainland today. Yumi and I spent over three hours walking and taking photographs. I'm amazed at the variety of beautiful birds we saw today, ranging from teeny balls of fluff to impressive great horned owls and cranes. Before we even arrived at the sanctuary, we ran across a field filled with thousands of snow geese:
We could also hear killdeer, and we finally spotted three of them across the road from the snow geese:
I'll just throw up a bunch of photos from this point -- enjoy, I sure had fun taking them!
American Coot
American Wigeon
A territorial Canada Goose that took some feathers out of a mallard's butt...
Bufflehead
Female Ring-Necked Duck
Great Horned Owl -- this fellow had about $50,000 worth of huge lenses and spotting scopes locked onto him :-)
Mallard male
Mallard male face closeup
Mallard female face closeup
Lovely female mallard feathers
Lovely female mallard feathers, take two...
Northern Pintail
Wood Duck
Redwing Blackbird
Sandhill Crane
Sandhill Crane profile
Sandhill Crane closeup