Local Nature Tasting: savouring nature with a camera
Again, I have been invited to talk in the Science in the Park series at the Visitors’ Centre of Kokanee Creek Park.
The show will be on Tuesday, August 4th at 7:30 p.m.
This is an end-of-the-month collection of images, none of which rated a posting on its own.
Sometimes noted is that by mid summer we already have all the migrant species we can expect until September. But, if we don’t see new species at present, we do see new members of those species, some of which appear below.
These two juvenile Great Blue Herons were hatched this year.
We cannot be sure if this American Redstart is a juvenile or a female (or both).
This Columbian Ground Squirrel was born this year.
This adult Red Squirrel seems to be eating a fir cone as if it were eating a corncob.
The yellowish belly of this Cedar Waxwing suggests that it is this year’s bird.
Nesting Pacific-slope Flycatchers were treated earlier. That this bird was probably hatched this year is evident from the buffy wingbars. They would appear whitish on an adult.
This unambiguously shows two Wood Duck chicks.