Good Friday
The statutory holiday triggered my thoughts about Easter and my grandparents, Russian Cossacks from Volga and Ural Hosts. I remember this holiday from the first years of my life. My grandmothers managed to make it really festive and full of the hopes for near future. And even today, being more Buddhist than Christian (agnostic in reality or maybe even pagan or Mormon :) ) I like Easter time and my feeling of life fullness. Superfetation (ideas first of all) is the word :) However the subject of the post will be not bunnies (maybe I arrange this for the Orthodox Easter) but the birds.
Let’s start with the sparrow:
Continue with Canadian geese:
Swans
Lady Sparrow gets after her husband with the specific notation related to their nest:
Rich (filled with worms) silt is a good proteinaceous supplement for mother-goose during ebb tide:
These pair is well-known and mentioned at least several times in this blog during last four years. Being European immigrants they were wrong with nest location before last year when fishermen relocated their nest to a safe place in marina and this year they will have a chance for successful hatching in their new place again:
Gulls are happy here and many of them visit Steveston Harbour with the hope for free lunch like this Slaty-baked gull:
You can hear Rusty Blackbirds singing in the village, but sometime they have to bite a little to recuperate:
Canadian geese are in a hurry to their nest place:
Russian geese are still here making their flight in formation training before leaving for home:
There are much more birds around but I place only those that I met today. And the final one was a medium woodpecker, this Sapsucker:
Maple sap is tasty I think but I prefer birch one :) as you know.
Let’s start with the sparrow:
Continue with Canadian geese:
Swans
Lady Sparrow gets after her husband with the specific notation related to their nest:
Rich (filled with worms) silt is a good proteinaceous supplement for mother-goose during ebb tide:
These pair is well-known and mentioned at least several times in this blog during last four years. Being European immigrants they were wrong with nest location before last year when fishermen relocated their nest to a safe place in marina and this year they will have a chance for successful hatching in their new place again:
Gulls are happy here and many of them visit Steveston Harbour with the hope for free lunch like this Slaty-baked gull:
You can hear Rusty Blackbirds singing in the village, but sometime they have to bite a little to recuperate:
Canadian geese are in a hurry to their nest place:
Russian geese are still here making their flight in formation training before leaving for home:
There are much more birds around but I place only those that I met today. And the final one was a medium woodpecker, this Sapsucker:
Maple sap is tasty I think but I prefer birch one :) as you know.