Great Blue Heron Reserve and Vedder Park

 Nice birding walk around the reserve on a cool Monday with few photo opportunities. 

During the summer I watched Bullock`s Orioles flying back and forth to a location in a Cottonwood in Vedder Park but could not see the nest at the time because of all the leaves. I found the nest recently along with a Red-tailed Hawk feeding close by. I used the slow approach technique for bird photographer`s, with my big lens, slowly moving closer without disturbing the bird. 

Sardis Park

Huge flocks of Cackling Geese use the park every year as a resting site in winter along with a few Snow Geese 

 

Great Blue Heron Reserve

Cedar Waxwing

Common Yellowthroat

Mallard

Orb Weaver Araneus diadematus

 Great Blue Heron

Cheam Lake Wetlands Park, Popcum.

Red-winged Blackbird

Cedar Waxwing

Downy Woodpecker

American Robin

All captured with a Canon 80D with 100 - 400mm and a 1.4 teleconverter at f8/500th sec/ISO 800.
 

Sardis Park Today

 Spotted Sandpiper and Wilson's Phalarope foraging at the water's edge .

 

Sardis Park

Anna's Hummingbird

White-fronted Goose

Aleutian subspecies

White-fronted Geese

Varied Thrush

American Wigeon

Manuel Park

 

Yellowlegs on the Vedder.

Greater Yellowlegs. Non-breeders are seen occasionally in the Fraser Valley or at this time of year could it be on it's way to the northern interior to breed. This one was photographed on the Vedder River.