After a few months, I’ve finally got round to putting together a selection of our Alaska photos online! It’s too big of a story to write here… We saw whales, moose, bears, eagles, a wolf and lots more impressive wildlife We climbed mountains, walked on glaciers. We had great weather – it only rained one [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Last week we went to Vancouver Island for three days with my mother. We had great weather the whole time, and I think made the most of the short time we had. We had to get up pretty early to catch the 08:30 ferry across from Horseshoe bay to Nanaimo, then go collect the car [...]