This weekend, I went to Deer Lake Park in Burnaby with Mike. It is not terribly far from Burnaby Lake Park, and in many respects has some quite similar habitat types. Because it was sunny, we were hoping to find a lot of early insects out basking, but it remained cold and windy most of the day and the insects remained elusive. Some of the photographic highlights of the trip are to be found in the gallery below. For colours I seem to have shot lots of blues and pinks today, with some yellows thrown in for good measure.
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- This beautiful insulator with a rusty bolt mirrored the bright blue sky with the budding trees of the background.
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- Moss Sporangia.
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- An elegant cranefly, also shot against the clear blue sky.
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- Vaccinium ovalifolium, which produces flowers before the leaves are out.
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- Vaccinium ovalifolium, which produces flowers before the leaves are out.
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- Mike with his macro rig…I will have to link to his pics if he gets them online…
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- This was a beautiful lil gal, not sure what exactly, but perhaps an Amaurobiid.
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- Spiral!
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- Soon, the Salmonberries, next the Rufous Hummingbirds.
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- Ring-billed Gulls have such pretty eyes.
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- here is a plain-jane shot of a Philodromid (Running Crab Spider)
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- With hard light coming from behind, the shot gets much more interesting.
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- Check out the palps!
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- Honeybeees were out on ornamental heathers.
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- Cherry Blossoms to round out a nice spring day.
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- Wild Geese…That is my St. Patrick’s Day contribution.
Update: the putative amaurobiid is in fact a Hahniid, Cryphoeca exlineae.