Day 120 - Old Road

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This is a section of an old road that has been blocked off and is used by walkers, runners and cyclists now.

Day 119 - Fallen Blossoms

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Day 118 - Peek a Boo

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A lot more bird photos today but most of them were not really sharp. Here is another red-breasted sapsucker that was not too bad.

Day 117 - Chestnut-backed Chickadee

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I'm finding it a challenge to get a really good clear shot of a bird. This one is not really sharp, but I think it was the best one today, so this is my daily post.

Day 116 - Nap Time

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I think these are green-winged teal, but if I got it wrong please let me know. I was shooting through a bush which caused some blurriness, but when I shifted to try to get a better line a twig snapped under my foot and they were instantly off.

Day 115 - Song Sparrow

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I think this is a song sparrow.

Day 114 - Red-breasted Sapsucker

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I went out late in the day again and spotted this red-breasted sapsucker. It did not seem to be bothered by my presence and at one point a second flew in and landed close to the first. I only got a couple of shots of the two of them before one went around the back of the tree and then flew off. One stayed around for quite a while allowing me to take a lot of shots, be even so I found it hard to get a nice clear image.

Day 113 - Female Red-winged Blackbird

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I'm trying more bird photography.

Update: This is a female red-winged blackbird, which I had thought was a song sparrow and had labeled as such. I’m not a birder and I had thought this was a sparrow, but I happened to see a camera ad this morning showing a female red-winged blackbird and recognized it right away as this bird photo I took yesterday.

Day 112 - Hummingbird

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I think this is a female Anna's Hummingbird. I was sitting under an ornamental cherry tree waiting for something/anything to appear to take my daily shot and this little hummingbird came along and after flitting from blossom to blossom perched right above me. It gave me lots of opportunity to take it's portrait and remained only 5 or 6 feet away even as I shifted around to take my shots. I got a few of it flying around the blossoms but I liked this one the most.

Day 111 - Fern

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New fern frond just starting to come out.

Day 110 - Dried Plants

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I don't know what these are but they have interesting seed pods when open like this.

Day 109 - Shadow

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An old rusty hanging with some bells that is on our fence and was casting this shadow.

Day 108 - Moon

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Day 107 - Flashlights and Stars

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I walked around with different lights creating the red and white light trails while capturing a bit of movement in the stars.

Day 106 - Stars #3

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More star light trails, this time from my backyard and I started before it was really dark. This is an hour long exposure and you can see I didn't quite get the north star. I'm finding it hard because the lens is not quite wide enough and I can't see enough on the screen to aim, so it is a bit of guessing.

Day 105 - Emerging Leaves

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I wanted to go out again to shoot stars but I was tired so decided to use an image from earlier in the day.

Day 104 - Stars #2

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I went up the mountain to darker skies and thought it might be possible to see the milky way, but it was still too faint. I took this long exposure in the parking lot and you can see a lot more stars than yesterday's image. It also looks like there might be a couple of meteorite trails in there.

Day 103 - Stars

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I went to the lake thinking I would try to get a shot with the milky way showing but this ended up not being a good location and still a bit early in the evening. I did like this image though with some stars reflected in the water.

Best to view with a black background by clicking on the image.

Day 102 - Busy Night Sky

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This is a 15 minute exposure. I was experimenting with the light trails feature in camera aimed at the north star, and in that time you can see the light trails of 4 planes that went over.

Best seen by clicking on it and viewing with black background.

Day 101 - Bushtit

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A pair of Bushtits have been busy making this nest. I read that they make their nests from moss, spider webs, and grasses. It was challenging trying to get a good shot of it among the tangle of branches, but I managed to get this image of one coming out of the nest.

Day 100 - Mossy Tree

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I took this a couple of days ago while snowshoeing up on the mountain. I don't know if it is actually a moss or a lichen, or if it is only found on trees at higher elevations.

Day 99 - Cattails

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I went out late in the day thinking I would try to do some wildlife photography. Not a good idea to do last minute, I didn't see anything close enough. So I took this just before the sun went behind a cloud close to sunset.

Day 98 - Snowshoeing

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Snowshoeing up on Mt. Washington (Vancouver Island) today. The mountains in the background are across the Strait of Georgia on the mainland.

Day 97 - Willow

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The sun was in and out from behind the clouds today and I thought it was nice on the new willow leaves.

Day 96 - Abstract

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Day 95 - Fawn Lilies

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The fawn lilies are out in full force here along the Tsolum River.

Day 94 - Kiteboarder

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The mountains in the background are on the mainland across the Strait of Georgia. This bay is quite shallow and it was a few hours before low tide. Still, it was a bit of a walk from the high tide line on the beach to the edge of the water, and you can see the sandbars that are exposed now in front of and behind the kiteboarder.

Day 93 - Beach Art

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This is as I found it on the beach. What do you see? At first I was thinking it looked a bit like a seahorse, but the more I look I see a large stinging insect or mosquito.

Day 92 - Low Tide

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Looking out over the estuary at low tide.

Day 91 - Sunlight on the Arbour

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