Where: Piper Spit (Burnaby Lake Regional Park) Weather: Cloudy, intermittent rain, around 8ºC
The Outing
It’s Easter weekend and instead of chocolate bunnies and candy eggs, we got a rainfall warning.
The skies opened up as forecast, and it was looking like we might not get out at all. The rain paused just long enough to let us grab about 20 minutes at Piper spit (Burnaby Lake), where I got 138 shots of soggy birds, squirrels and scenery. By the end, the rain resumed and we got the heck out of there.
I got a few respectable shots, which are posted in the gallery below. A lot were blurry, some due to movement and some due to I don’t know what, because the number of blurry shots has been going up lately. I also had another moment today where it felt like my telephoto lens, which is attached via adapter to the camera, started to come loose. Can adapters fail? I guess I’ll find out eventually!
The Shots
The Birds (and other critters)
Sparrows and sparrow-adjacent:
- Blackbird
- Black-capped chickadee
- Fox sparrow
- Golden-crowned sparrow
- Song sparrow
- Spotted towhee
Waterfowl:
- American coot
- Bufflehead duck
- Canada goose
- Green-winged teal
- Lesser scaup
- Mallard
- Northern pintail
- Wood duck
Common:
- Crow
- Pigeon
Non-birds:
- Red squirrel
