Lots of Anna's hummingbirds where whizzing past me flying back and forth over the path along the shore by Lochside Drive. They were landing in the bushes right beside the path. Click bigger.

The red-tailed hawk that chased Ma Sidney from the oak tree by the church at the south end of Pat Bay this afternoon. Click bigger.

Beautiful male Wood Ducks at King's Pond yesterday afternoon. Click bigger.

A lone American Coot joined the Mallards, Wigeons and Wood Ducks for a late afternoon meal. Click bigger.

A mute swan family that make their home on the Gorge waterway. Someone had been there feeding them just before I arrived. These pics were taken Dec. 29th. Click bigger.

A few Barrow's Goldeneye ducks I saw around Saanichton Bay on Tuesday.



A Trumpeter swan family on Martindale Flats in Saanich.

A Northern Flicker in Saxe Pt. Park yesterday. Click pics bigger.




A pair of Northern Shoveler ducks in Beacon Hill Park yesterday.

Hi Kay: Glad to see some posts on the trails’ threads. Cool pixs of the hummingbirds and wood ducks. We’re still seeing the snowies, but the weather as you’re well aware has turned for the worse so we’re having to wait to look for the big group of snowies at Boundary Bay.