This weekend expedition was much like any you might venture to make on a winter day in Vancouver: grey and rainy! The rain was not severe though, so with the camera protected by a big umbrella, I headed out with Wild Research for a birdwatching trip led by Elly Knight, a grassland songbird researcher at SFU. The mission today was to get out and see some waterbirds as well as some passerines that make their homes in wintertime Vancouver. I was along to document the fun, as well as to offer my own, often unreliable, ID help! Click on any image below to see a gallery of the resulting shots.
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- Lost Lagoon is as good a place as any to start. Eagles and falcons often hunt here, and many ducks and geese are to be found.
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- Elly grabs some names of the participants.
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- I wish more of my shots had smiles like this!
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- I was not the only shooter
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- This coot had all kinds of aspersions cast on his character, but he just continued being a coot.
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- Lesser Scaup
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- Lesser Scaupz
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- American Wigeon also to be found
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- American Wigeon
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- some exotics as well
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- Common Merganser
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- Goldeneye
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- coffee is essential for winter birding
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- !
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