With 33.8 degrees, this Wednesday became the hottest day ever recorded in Vancouver! That may not seem so hot to many of you, but for Vancouver it was, and I was not a happy camper either (my comfort range is 10-22 degrees)… So… I got creative! We’re going to Burning Man this year, so I [...]
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 [...]
I’m going to start a small series of posts about our “little friends”, and thought I’d start with one about our favourite. Stellar’s Jays are very beautiful birds with a blue back and a high crest. And – they are very clever! We have a couple (a male and a female) which regularly come to [...]