WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO THE PAST FEW DAYS?

Well, we checked out a couple of our usual spots and I took a walk along the river trail in our park.

Still lots of ice on the cliffs.

A few sheep posed for me.

We got to see a Golden Eagle at a distance.  It was just a speck to the naked eye.  This is what my camera saw at the equivalent of 1280 mm.

Cropped way in for a fuzzy graph.

Ice bells in the river.

Poison Ivy berries are just as toxic as the rest of the plant.

I'm guessing this beautiful grass came from someone's garden and seeded along the river pathway.

Some nice colour along the trail.

A frosted McIntyre Bluff taken from our house.

CONTINUING WITH THE SUDDEN DROP IN TEMPERATURE PHOTOS MOSTLY TAKEN ACROSS THE STREET FROM OUR HOUSE. THE LAST FEW WERE TAKEN ON THE CLIFFS ABOVE VASEUX LAKE.

The Angels.

On the cliffs above Vaseux Lake.

Ice forming on Vaseux Lake.

A LITTLE BIT OF EAGLE CONFLICT YESTERDAY.

As I was driving by the south end of Vaseux Lake yesterday afternoon I noticed a couple of eagles on the ice so I pulled off into wide spot to try for some photos.  There was a mature and an immature.  Soon after another immature joined them followed a bit later by a third immature.  Two of them were soon scrapping and carrying on.  They were quite a distance from me and with my 800mm lens on my crop frame camera I still had to crop over 50% in the computer to get what I have.   After leaving there I found two more mature eagles just after the sharp corner on the highway.

Notice this one landing on the other.

Flattened him.

The first one to leave.

At it again.

One of the others further up the lake.

Lots of Redheads in the lake.