I’m currently too under the weather to ride, so instead I went for a walk around Maplewood Flats in North Vancouver with my old DSLR and photographed some birds. As you come into the nature preserve, there are these scale models of the now-gone squatter shacks that used to exist along the mudflats. Pretty cute.
I mostly saw pretty ordinary birds, as expected. Lots of black-capped chickadees and spotted Towhees, as well as song sparrows. A couple eagles, and then the one bit of proper excitement was this pileated woodpecker which I heard at first, waited a few minutes, and then it swooped in and landed right by where I was standing. It then moved over to another dead tree even closer to me. They’re pretty big! Anyway, I guess I’m a birder now. I would have rather gone on a bike ride, but this was good too.
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