CrazyM Bird & Nature Photography
Birding in British Columbia, Canada
Well it was a beautiful day and lots of visitors at Reifel this afternoon. The highlight of the day was a couple of American Bittern seen along the south dyke. While I did not find them on my first pass along the trail, they did make appearances later on. The first one was not in great spot for photos,
… but the second Bittern was in a much better location for viewing and photographing.
To the delight of many visitors it foraged for food in this area the rest of the afternoon.
On arriving at Reifel to help out in the afternoon I learned that there was a little entertainment this morning. Over the centre dyke area the Northern Goshawk was actively engaged with some Northern Harriers.
I made my way out to the centre dyke trail and was unable to locate the Northern Goshawk. The Northern Harriers, however, were actively coming and going to the trail leading the bird blind.
Turns out they were feeding on a drake mallard. The duck was probably killed by the Goshawk and all the fuss noticed earlier was the Harriers harrassing and chasing it away for a free lunch.
With not much happening on the bird photo front today,
… I will start of with this as the sun was going down at the end of my afternoon out.
The main event for today was the ‘Super Blood Wolf Moon’, which happened this evening. A combination of events that apparently has only happened a few times in the last 100 years.
It is ‘Super’ because the moon is at its closest point to the earth in its orbit. ‘Blood’ from the reddish colour it takes on as a result of the total eclipse. ‘Wolf’ is the cultural side of this referring to the first full moon in January and hearing the wolves howling in hunger.
Fortunately the clouds held off for most of it and I managed this shot.