Looks like Summer doldrums are nearly over.

A few more critters are making an appearance.

 

Birds and Butterfly

Wood-ducks ar work and at play

Playing Tag

Winner

Cormorants: Parent and offspring

Eastern Kingbird

Female Mergansers Play at King of the Castle

GIT!

Not the handsomest kid on the block

The following is the sequence of the hatching of a Monarch Butterfly

Nighttime visitor: a Red Fox

Finally, With  the failing of a "Tailings pond" dam in B.C. in the news, this is a view of just one of the local Tailings Management Areas' dams.

Note the height, relative to surrounding utility poles and trees.