Out on the north arm of the Fraser River we spotted this Great Blue Heron coming in for a landing – I caught a mere one tenth of a second on film. Bailey caught the whole thing, as this little clip shows!
Here’s a great picture Pam took of Mt Baker the other day. Really like this shot.
The first step in learning to retrieve beer from the fridge is fetching a ball in a field, of course.
There are setbacks initially though – as this little clip will show! Clearly Bailey thinks it’s my job to do the fetching.
Still, with perseverance we manage to get Bailey started on the path to dog nirvana.
And of course, it’s not a blog post without a picture of a Great Blue Heron right?
Seeing a Great Blue Heron is fairly common for us. It’s a rare day we don’t see one. But this morning we got to see two of them in very close proximity to each other, each getting cleaned up for the long day of fishing ahead!
Bailey loves to run after the swallows that frequent our park. She will chase them around and around for a looong time! The birds themselves seem to be teasing her, switching directions, darting the opposite way, looping back on her, doubling up for a charge.
I’ve actually been worried that she doesn’t know when to quit and might give herself a heart attack – no idea if that is even a thing, but this gal seems a tad obsessed!
Bailey gets distracted.
Pam and I really enjoy the antics of the birds we see along the Fraser River. We spend a lot of time on our walks checking out the various types of birds. Big and small they always catch our eye!
On the small side, we’ve seen several hummingbirds, and lots of our neighbours along the walk have hummingbird feeding stations set up. This particular series of photos in this post are of the same bird! See how the color just radically changes…
When you see the pictures of him where he is mostly green, it’s hard to see any of the brilliant magenta color that is so prominent in the other two pictures.
I had to put in another picture of the Great Blue Heron. We see herons every day, and it’s really cool to see them fly. But here, he’s out standing on a log boom, looking for all the world like he has a beer belly! Thought it was hysterical.
Every morning Bailey and I take a walk along the river. With spring definitely here, there is always something new. Lately it’s been the changing levels of the water: The tides have really been low last few days, but today they are back up high.
Hope you’re not getting sick of seeing the Great Blue Heron! It’s a cool bird to watch, very slow and deliberate moving while walking in the water.
This video shows the heron taking over the log on which it is pictured in the photo accompanying this story. There are a couple seconds of some of the many other birds in the general area – and note the ducks scrambling to get off the log the heron wants.
