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Boundary Bay Dike Trail

It’s been a while since I’ve been to Boundary Bay!

I set out on this Easter Sunday hunting for more Mountain Bluebirds. The rare bird alert site had mentioned something about an electric fence… which in hindsight should have told me it was at that BCHydro installation where all the starlings like to hang out. Which, in further hindsight, is past the big house with the ponds, past the raptor tree, so I should have started from 72nd Street, and not Beach Grove Park.

Also I probably shouldn’t have procrastinated so much that I arrived when the sun started to go down.

In the end, I didn’t see any bluebirds. I knew my chances weren’t high, since the rare bird alert had only reported them to April 3rd, but it seemed worth a shot. Anyway, it was a nice stroll and I got to capture some great scenery and some nice little birbs, including a few fairly special ones!

The photos

A Ruby-crowned Kinglet in a bush, holding a hoverfly in its beak
A late afternoon snack for this Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Mount Baker in the distance. Closer are some wavy ponds and marshy grasslands. A Great Blue Heron is standing on the near side of one pond, still some distance away
Mount Baker and a heron
A lone tree on a little mound sticking out of a flat landscape with low sunlight (sun just off camera to the left), some wispy clouds in a blue sky. Behind the tree is a farm field, very waterlogged with some large puddles around the tree
The Raptor Tree, though I’ve never seen any raptors around
An immature White-crowned Sparrow is standing on a ground-level branch, seen in profile in very golden light. In the background is a tangled bush
An immature White-crowned Sparrow, foraging around this bush
A dim and faraway picture of a male Common Yellowthroat among the reeds
Not a great photo of a Common Yellowthroat, but with these little guys one takes what one can get
A White-crowned Sparrow in a mostly bare bush, mostly facing me and the low sun, but head turned so I can see the side of its face
White-crown
A Lincoln's Sparrow sitting on a branch sticking out of a bush that is just barely visible to the right of the picture. Background is fuzzy brown marshy grassland
A Savannah Sparrow? No, a Lincoln’s Sparrow!
A muskrat in a little narrow creek, a bit below ground level, clogged with wood and other natural debris. It is facing the setting sun, eyes mostly closed, and seems to be holding its front paws up to its face
A muskrat
Boundary Bay as the sun goes down. In the far background are low hazy blue mountains, and closer up on the right are some more solid mountains. In front of those are the waters of Boundary Bay, and in front of that is low tide sand with some random shallow creeks
Low tide mud and meandering water
Looking straight at the sunset over the farms west of Boundary Bay
Sun going down

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