Bird Watching in Canada

In early February we went up to see Jackie and do some bird watching. Jackie knew about some snowy owls that were hanging out just on the other side of the Canada border, so we went and saw them. We stayed Saturday night at Jackie's and enjoyed some delicious chili.

Here we are at the Boundary Bay preserve with our binoculars at the ready.

Here are the snowy owls. There were tons of them. I think we counted at least 25. They just sit there and let you watch them. I took these pictures through the scope using my phone. That's why they have that weird black circle.

There were tons of eagles up there. It seemed like every tree we saw had 3 or 4 eagles on it.

Next we went to the George Reifel migratory bird preserve. Here are a whole bunch of ducks.

And here are some sandhill cranes.

Here Meghan feeds the sandhill cranes:

It was pretty fun. It was the first time either Meghan or I had been birdwatching. We saw 32 species including herons, wood ducks, coots, a bittern, red wing blackbirds, and sparrows.