SOME NATURE PHOTOS IN THE VICTORIA AREA.

These photos were taken from several different locations around where we're staying.

Kingfisher.

A leaf in a tidal pool.

Great Blue Heron.

Great Blue Heron.

Great Blue Heron.

Downy Woodpecker.

Adult and young seals.

Adult and young seal.

Oak leaf thinks it is fall already.

And another leaf too.

TIME TO POST SOME MORE PHOTOS AND UPDATE THINGS.

On Wednesday, August 5, we loaded up, hooked on the Jeep and headed out.  After a smokey drive over the Hope-Princeton, we spent the night near Hope.  Thursday we took the ferry to Vancouver Island and are spending some time visiting our son and his family.

On board the ferry at Tsawwassen waiting for everyone to load.

Pelagic Cormorant taken from the ferry.

Pelagic Cormorant taken from the ferry.

Pelagic Cormorant taken from the ferry.

Lighthouse at the entrance to Active Pass. 

The ferries meet in the middle of Active Pass.

Just as we left Active Pass.

Arbutus tree bark and old branch stubs.

Arbutus tree bark and old branch stubs.

Arbutus tree bark and old branch stubs.

SOME PHOTOS TAKEN ALONG THE OKANAGAN RIVER NEAR MY HOME.

Sumac leaf.

Can't remember the name of this shrub.  Any ideas?

Black Hawthorne.

Great Blue Heron.

Notice the solid wall of poison ivy behind the heron.

Osprey bringing a fish to the nest.

Osprey bringing a fish to the nest.

Osprey bringing a fish to the nest.  However, after sitting there with the other adult and the chicks for a few minutes, he flew away with the fish.  Don't know what that was about.

Adult and two young osprey.

Serenity by the river.

AN EXCITING MORNING FOR FOUR YOUNG MERGANSERS.

It started off peacefully.  With the smokey skies I've just been walking from home.  I was down by the river when four young Mergansers came floating along.  Suddenly one darted into the shallows on the opposite shore and came up with a Pumpkinseed fish which is a member of the Sunfish family.  Then the fun started.  The other three ducks kept chasing whoever had the fish and when one dropped it, another would grab the fish.  I watched until they all disappeared around a bend in the river.

Just cruising along.

Making a getaway.

Come on and share!

What a mouthful!

TODAY'S POST PHOTOS WERE TAKEN IN THE OKANAGAN FALLS, CAWSTON AND SIDLEY/ANARCHIST MOUNTAIN AREA OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS.

Adult and juvenile Eastern Kingbirds.

Musk Thistle.

Alaskan Bellflower.

Juvenile Robin.

Awhile back one of our challenges in the photo club was to try intentional camera movement.  When I spotted this copse of poplars, I decided to try it again.

Intentional camera movement.

Intentional camera movement.

My sister Susan, her husband, all four kids with spouses and all her grandchildren rented a couple houses in Keremeos recently.  On Sunday evening we drove over to spend some time with them and I stopped at the bottom of the Fairview-Cawston Road to take these photos showing the contrast between where it is irrigated and not.

Cawston.

Cawston.

Cawston.

Near White Lake Tuesday evening.

Hwy 3 Anarchist last night, Wednesday.

Female Elk along Hwy 3 Anarchist Wednesday night.

Vaseux Lake Tuesday evening.

Anarchist overlook Wednesday evening.