It is at Grace Cole Nature Park, near Shoreline.
Notes from my journal about this bird.
"Every time I go to my site I hear these birds, but I can never see them. They in general have very light-pitched calls. The call I was hearing a lot was tweet tweet in rapid succession. I also noticed that the closer the bird was the more deep the call sounded and the farther away the more light and sometimes screechy it sounded. This was the bird that I decided to follow, but it was extremely hard. They are extremely tiny birds, if they curled up I would compare them to the size of a golf ball, maybe a little bigger. They also tend to dwell high up in the canopy of my area, which makes sense as to why I had never actually spotted one of them till this journal trip when I had my binoculars. However, due to the yellowing of the trees it became even harder to spot one of these suckers. They themselves have yellow on their bodies which blend into the color of the leaves. The gray base color of their feathers also blended well into the tree trunk. They are also smaller than the leaves of the tree they were residing in. The one I watched the whole time was flying from tree branch to tree branch, but it never called out the whole time I was watching it. Mostly, I assume it was looking for food but I never saw it eat anything. When it would fly from branch to branch it would waste no motion flying around. Picture it similarly to how a cat jumps from object to object, very quick movements, but with little actual movement. It would do this constantly, like it could not stop moving constantly flitting back and forth. The most interesting thing this bird did while I was watching it was poop white feces while it landed on a branch. "
See sketches for physical description.
over 8 feet ...scared the crap out of me , face to face
Engogred western black legged tick. It appears that there is a second tick on the belly of the fat one. Removed from a cat.
Pretty extensive, usually pure fruiting patches or with other ruderal bryos. Mature bright red tubers are 160-200um, but many were presumably immature and around 100-130um. Smooth, sometimes reddish rhizoids.
An orange, granular (?) life form overwhelming wood and mosses, but not the lichens.
I am not sure whether it is an algae or a fungus.
@chlorophylia Here’s the undescribed marmara species I was telling you about
I believe some type of ant-mimic wasp.
Mother and her calf. Quite incredible breaches. Several whale watching and general boater boats surrounded and followed them. We witnessed from land. Remarkable.
Tree Island off Pylades Island, Gulf Islands, BC, Canada
Tree Island off Pylades Island, Gulf Islands, BC, Canada
Lakeshore lime pebble grounds
On seeping metavolcanic bluffs-- W-facing
On metavolcanic rock cliffs and boulders in dark, NE facing second growth coniferous forest
I think? On soil over gypsum outcrop
Added water to open up leaves in last photo.
Encalypta sp #2 of the day.
on fallen conifer log
On soil under cliffy overhang in the Doug-fir forest
covered in Acer macrophyllum pollen
@rmedina I think this is it, right? On disturbed soil through grass by parking lot in heavily trafficked regional park.
Wet fallen wood over backchannel
Very tiny, on eroding soil near coast
Floating on the water's surface in an area of field/meadow habitat that floods seasonally. After photographing, best efforts were made to transport all the springtails that were willing to drier ground. :-)
Stunning red form over sandstone along drainage
This observation collected under a BC Parks permit to visit Woodley Range Ecological Reserve. Note that this Ecological Reserve is closed to the public: research is conducted via permit. (https://bcparks.ca/eco_reserve/woodley_er.html)
Hand-dipped from surface waters and photographed in an aquarium. About 25 mm bell diameter.
Looks so much like a Lichen! Check out the side view.
On intermediate-mafic shallow intrusive rocks of the Mt. Hall "Gabbro"
These little critters were erupting (hatching?) from what looked to
be a single opening in an oyster mushroom. There was a single adult (mom?) who appeared to be assisting them - at times being in the very thick of the eruption. Any ideas welcome!
On backshore driftwood
'oh dear' on Cornus nuttallii
On rotting fir. 20-698
Checked back on it after a couple hours of emerging and it has developed spots and darkened its colour to an orange, now in the direct sun.
Not sure that I have the exact location for this observation since I was hiking when I made it, but it would be close I think. There were some amazing wildflowers in this area!! We were trying to hike out quickly because we had 26 km. to hike in one day, but we couldn't help stopping to take photos as it was so amazing!
Reared larva from bark of log from Galiano Ecological Reserve.