An Eagle Up Close and Personal

Today we visited the Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society centre here in Delta, BC. (Better known as OWL). This group takes on the responsibility of rehabing sick and injured birds of prey from all over BC .....mostly hawks, owls, and eagles. (200 to 300 per year). The society also performs very important educational sessions at schools and other events throughout the lower mainland. This juvenile Bald Eagle, named "Sonsie" is a permanent resident as when he came to the centre he had already had too much human contact and would not be able to survive in the wild. Lucky for us, and school children all over the region, we get a chance to see an eagle up real close. He is four years old. His head feathers will turn pure white over the next few years. Check out the Society web site at www.owlcanada.ca 

Easter Dinner

Guess what? The boys are starting to eat! Pretty soon they'll want to sit at the table and get their share of all the good stuff grandma makes for dinner. Any guesses on what their eating? Would anyone like to try the recipe? It looks real tastey!!! 

Karen's Birthday (April 17, 1969)

Hard to imagine that this little baby girl now has her own little baby to watch over and take thousands of pictures of. Centre picture is Karen with her great-grandmother, "Maggie Elizabeth Brown", we called her Nana. (my maternal grandmother). Karen also carries the middle name "Elizabeth". 

Happy Easter Everyone!!!

I Did So Graduate!

Heare is mye graid eiht clas pictoore jus too profe it. Cann yuo pique mee oot? 

Friday Night Happy Hour and Steaks!!!

Are we having a good time.... I think so!!! These are our good boating buddies from Sidney.....Peggy, Brian, Gail, Marcia, Jim, Sharon, and Del. You can put the names to the people?....first one to get everyone properly identified wins the prize. Those named above can not enter the contest as they may embarrass themselves by getting somebodies name wrong. 

Spring has Sprung

This is no April Fools!!! One of these photos is from Japan...the rest are local Ladner shots. The Cherry Blossoms were not out in Japan, but the Plum Blossoms were. Do you know which photo is from Japan? 

Porpoise in Motion

There are really only two photos here but they are in a tight sequence. The two porpoises are jumping together but one is just a fraction of a second ahead of the other. There were actually over 25 porpoises in this pod and they came right to us....playing in the boats bow wave, racing along side of us, and diving back and forth under the boat as we moved along. We maintained a speed of about 7 knots and they 'played' with us for about 15 minutes. This is something these guys like to do....they actually seem to look at you when they are alongside and some would even believe they let out a little smile. 

Love Those Bears

Our middle right bear is a grizzly.....don't want to get too close to those guys!!! On the middle left is a mom and two cubs....don't want to mess with mom!!! The others are black bears.....you just plain don't want to mess with bears, but we sure love spotting them!!! 

This Could Develop into Something

 

Grand Babies!!!

Just to keep updated with the babes.....Jacob is now 6 months old and Teo is, and always will be, 6 weeks younger. Both are thriving and learning new expressions and movements everyday. (I was going to say "new tricks" but I didn't want to upset the parents.) Won't be long before they are both fully mobile little rug rats. 

Pictographs on the Coast

These pictographs are found in many areas along the BC coast and form part of the history of the Native people. The one in the bottom right hand corner is in Kingcome Inlet and is a modern day "experiment" in an effort to determine how and what the original paintings were made of. Some at the top depict European carts and ships which would suggest they were painted sometime after the European settlers/explorers arrived.