June 3rd ~ Fleming Beach, Esquimalt

This Great Blue Heron was fishing for its lunch. Click bigger.

June 3rd ~ Saxe Pt. Park

This pair of seagulls was in the mood for romance and I felt like I was intruding on their privacy Click bigger.

June 5th ~ Beacon Hill Park

There are quite a few heron pairs who have chicks in their nests. You can see at chick in front of the adult's feet in the 1st pic, and there are chicks in the nest in the 2nd pic. There was a lot of squawking going on just before I snapped the 3rd pic, just after an adult had landed in the tree near the nest. Click bigger.

June 5th ~ Beacon Hill Park

A family of mallards sunning beside the lake.


A blonde female mallard with her ducklings.


A grey squirrel with a nut in its mouth.

Beacon Hill Park ~ June 11th

A few pics of the baby herons in the nests. I was there late in the afternoon when the sun was behind the nest trees so the quality of the pics isn't great. Click bigger.

Beacon Hill Park ~ June 11th

A few pics of Henry Heron keeping an eye on his family in the nest tree. He then flew to the side of the island in the midde of his lake and waited for a meal to appear. Click bigger.

A few pics of the Great Blue Heron babies in Beacon Hill Park on Sunday, June 26th. Click bigger.

Link to an article in our local Times Colonist newspaper on April 27th, about the death of Niagara, the lone white peacock who was born and lived in Beacon Hill Park for over 15 years. Beacon Hill Park's Niagara dies