June 24th, 2009
Yesterday afternoon as I was sitting at my desk I heard a loud thump against the window pane. All the grown birds seem to know that the glass is there, but the last weeks since the young fledglings have been around, a couple have come close. This one came more than close – he hit [...]
Tags: downy woodpecker, window, woodpecker
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June 20th, 2009
I’ve hurt myself often enough, but rarely doing something as harmless as how this happened!
We were walking along Acadia beach near home, and the Salmon Berries were ripe. Many of the berries closer to the path had already been picked, but higher up, just out of reach were some really nice ones. I jumped, I [...]
Tags: ankle, berries, x-ray
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June 13th, 2009
I was just on Granville Island having a beer with Wayne (visiting from Germany), when suddenly hundreds of naked cyclists came rolling by! A quick google back home and I found out that this is the yearly World Naked Bike Ride – a protest to “put a stop to the indecent exposure of people and [...]
Tags: 2009-06-13, bike, cycling, naked, nude
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June 12th, 2009
On the first of April we first saw this little bird at our hummingbird feeder! We couldn’t believe that one had actually come, and even less that she (the little purple patch under the chin shows it is a female – the male is much more showy!) could have any other source of food at [...]
Tags: anna's hummingbird, balcony, bird feeder, feeder, hummingbird
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