Calling Red-winged Blackbird…These odd fellows are related to the Oropendolas.
This weekend, I returned to Stanley Park to check out some of the early spring action. The herons are beginning nest construction and courtship in the large heronry near English Bay, and there are more and more birds bursting into song and aggression at the slightest provocation. Check out the video of the bill snapping/nest building heron, and then browse around the gallery below to see the highlights of this Weekend Expedition.
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- This Mute Swan was rocking out!
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- Further crow portraiture
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- Anna’s Hummingbird feeding low
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- Anna’s Hummingbird feeding low
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- Anna’s Hummingbird feeding low
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- Anna’s Hummingbird feeding low
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- Centipede
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- Centipede
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- Isopod
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- Further crow portraiture
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- Gull looking dsitinguished
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- Further crow portraiture
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- Duck Detail
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- Fox Sparrow
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- Catherine feeds the chickadees
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- Catherine feeds the chickadees
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- Check out the epaulets!
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- Smaller on a younger male
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- Crow searching the intertidal at Second Beach
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- mmmm…molluscs!
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- Coolest dog?
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- herons get a bit crazy..
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- herons get a bit crazy..
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- Thinking of oviposition…
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- Check out the breeding regalia!
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- Full body
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- Further crow portraiture
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- cant get enough Icterids!
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Great pictures. Love the Ana’s hummingbird ones! And your crow portraits are always great. Thanks
Thanks!
Did you see the Virginia Rail that hangs out in the marshy area at the north end of Lost Lagoon? He was there pretty regularly at least earlier in the year.
PS: Love the Isopod shot
Nope, I did not see the rail…I didn’t hit the north side this trip.