Revisiting John Brown’s Beach

I went for a relatively quick walk around the park this morning. I didn’t find anything new there except a fruiting Polyporus sp (that hopefully I can get identified to species at some point). I stopped by castle hill to take pictures of a Porella (I think maybe P. cordeana, which would be a new … Read more

Leucistic Eurasian Collared-Dove

Earlier this week I got an e-mail from Liz McKenzie with some attached photos of a very white dove that had started visiting her feeding station with a Eurasian Collared-Dove. At first I thought it was a leucistic Eurasian Collared-Dove, with a majority of its feathers and exposed bodyparts lacking much pigment. However, coincidentally, earlier … Read more

Spring Thunder

My first Black-legged Kittiwake of the year I took a brief walk around Totem Park. On my way there I enjoyed hearing some rolling thunder, a couple of times I even saw a flash from the lightning that preceded it. Overall the day was mostly all cloudy with showers periodically adding punctuation. I didn’t notice … Read more