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Golden-crown peeking into the light -- Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake Regional Park, April 13
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#BurnabyLake #birds #birb #GoldenGrownedSparrow

The shiniest duck -- Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake Regional Park, April 13
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#BurnabyLake #birds #WoodDuck

The shiniest duck -- Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake Regional Park, April 13
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#BurnabyLake #birds #WoodDuck

Blue on blue -- Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake Regional Park, April 13
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#BurnabyLake #birds #TreeSwallow

Biiiiiig stretch! -- Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake Regional Park, April 13
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#BurnabyLake #birds #Sandhill Crane

Biiiiiig stretch! -- Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake Regional Park, April 13
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#BurnabyLake #birds #Sandhill Crane

A shiny flappy duck -- Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake Regional Park, April 13
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#BurnabyLake #birds #WoodDuck

Shiny! And another check on the spring migrant checklist -- Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake, April 5
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#BurnabyLake #birds #BrownHeadedCowbird

Shiny! And another check on the spring migrant checklist -- Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake, April 5
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#BurnabyLake #birds #BrownHeadedCowbird

Upon arriving at Piper Spit, the first thing we see is some Serious Birders scoping out some little birb with their Serious Gear. They were super nice, informing us that their target was a Tree Sparrow! They range across much of North America east of the Rockies, so this was a very special visitor. Also a lifer for me!

The birb itself was also nice enough to stay and pose for pictures -- Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake, April 5
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#BurnabyLake #birds #birb #TreeSparrow #AmericanTreeSparrow

Upon arriving at Piper Spit, the first thing we see is some Serious Birders scoping out some little birb with their Serious Gear. They were super nice, informing us that their target was a Tree Sparrow! They range across much of North America east of the Rockies, so this was a very special visitor. Also a lifer for me!

The birb itself was also nice enough to stay and pose for pictures -- Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake, April 5
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#BurnabyLake #birds #birb #TreeSparrow #AmericanTreeSparrow

Spot of green -- Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake, April 5
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#BurnabyLake #birds #GreenWingedTeal

Pintail in flight (with bonus indifferent teals) -- Burnaby Lake Regional Park , March 15
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#BurnabyLake #birds #NorthernPintail #GreenWingedTeal

Pintail in flight (with bonus indifferent teals) -- Burnaby Lake Regional Park , March 15
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#BurnabyLake #birds #NorthernPintail #GreenWingedTeal

Study of ducks, landing -- Burnaby Lake Regional Park, March 15
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#BurnabyLake #birds #MallardDuck #LesserScaup

The cutest bufflehead -- Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake Regional Park, March 15
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#BurnabyLake #birds #Bufflehead

The cutest bufflehead -- Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake Regional Park, March 15
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#BurnabyLake #birds #Bufflehead

Female Lesser Scaup, holding something in her bill -- Burnaby Lake, February 16
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#BurnabyLake #birds #LesserScaup

Flappy flappy -- Burnaby Lake, February 16
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#BurnabyLake #birds #Bufflehead

Flappy flappy -- Burnaby Lake, February 16
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#BurnabyLake #birds #Bufflehead

Clouds moved in as the sun went down -- Burnaby Lake, February 16
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#BurnabyLake #landscape

Dee-dee-dee -- Burnaby Lake, February 6
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#BurnabyLake #birds #birb #BlackCappedChickadee

Dee-dee-dee -- Burnaby Lake, February 6
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#BurnabyLake #birds #birb #BlackCappedChickadee

Gold and blue on gold and blue -- Burnaby Lake, February 6
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#BurnabyLake #birds #MallardDuck

Goose bath

I'm really not sure what they get out of it. Geese are pretty much as waterproof as ducks, as you can see, and they really have to work hard to get water inside their feathers -- Burnaby Lake, February 6
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#BurnabyLake #birds #CanadaGoose

Goose bath

I'm really not sure what they get out of it. Geese are pretty much as waterproof as ducks, as you can see, and they really have to work hard to get water inside their feathers -- Burnaby Lake, February 6
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#BurnabyLake #birds #CanadaGoose

Flappy bath. This gull's frontmost & longest feathers look a bit ragged! -- Burnaby Lake, February 6
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#BurnabyLake #birds #GlaucousWingedGull

One of dozens of Long-billed Dowitchers hanging around the shallows -- Burnaby Lake, February 6
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#BurnabyLake #birds #LongBilledDowitcher

One of dozens of Long-billed Dowitchers hanging around the shallows -- Burnaby Lake, February 6
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#BurnabyLake #birds #LongBilledDowitcher

A bird that is black -- Burnaby Lake, February 6
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#BurnabyLake #birds #RedWingedBlackbird

The prettiest boi

Fun fact I just learned today: their call is not a quack like Mallards do, or a whistling peep like Wood Ducks and wigeons do, but a weird crickety chirp. It just makes them ten times more adorbs IMO -- Burnaby Lake, February 6
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#BurnabyLake #birds #GreenWingedTeal

The prettiest pintail -- Burnaby Lake Regional Park, February 6
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#BurnabyLake #birds #NorthernPintail

Chickadee on alert -- Burnaby Lake Regional Park, February 6
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#BurnabyLake #birds #birb #BlackCappedChickadee

Douglas Squirrels -- Burnably Lake Regional Park, February 6
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#BurnabyLake #DouglasSquirrel

A cute Song Sparrow -- Burnaby Lake, January 20
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#BurnabyLake #birb #birds #SongSparrow

A Fox Sparrow, posing for me -- Burnaby Lake, January 20
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#BurnabyLake #birb #FoxSparrow

I call this piece, "The Gull With The Pearl Earring".

But it wasn't the only gull around playing with weird junk! I wonder if humans lost that stuff long ago. Or maybe gulls themselves stole it, or crows, and it all ended up in the mud
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#BurnabyLake #birds #GlaucousWingedGull

A picture-perfect Pintail
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#BurnabyLake #birds #NorthernPintail

My best ever shots of a male Bufflehead, as he wandered to and fro by the pier. They are teeny ducks, and it's only from this distance that you can appreciate the rich iridescence on their face feathers!
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#BurnabyLake #birds #bufflehead

A Sooty Fox Sparrow. Burnaby Lake Regional Park, November 11
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#BurnabyLake #birb #FoxSparrow

Pigeon stare
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#RockPigeon #pigeon #BurnabyLake

Mallard mama and behbehs

(Burnaby Lake, Piper Spit, July 2)
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#burnabylake #MallardDuck