Getting up at 8am is more pleasant than getting up at 7am. Therefore I haven’t changed my clocks to winter hours. Well, not all my clocks.
This payed dividends today, when I was heading to a waterfowl bird count scheduled to 10am. When I arrived I was a tad surprised to find it is actually 9am, but then, Al Grass was already there and we had a lovely guided bird walk around Lost Lagoon. At the end of the walk someone mentioned that there’s also a bird count today! Only then did I realize what has happened. I caught up with the bird count at Second Beach. Everything worked out better than planned…
Al Grass gets excited of every Song Sparrow and every American Coot as if he is seeing them for the first time in his life. Right at the start he stopped to admire a Great Blue Heron, a common sight at almost every bird trip here in Vancouver, and produced a truly lovely photograph of his subject. We stopped to admire all the more common birds afresh, and it was a delight.