NOTE: This appeared on my Facebook page today. I really think I shouldn't use social media at all, as it seems to take me to a place I ...

A glorious day on Como Lake. We're always astounded to see ONE cormorant there, as lakesides are not this species' preferred locatio...

Strange are the things I find on my walks around Como Lake. Even stranger is the fact that this is the first time I noticed it, though I'...

A dazzling moment on Como Lake.

This is one of my loveliest duck videos from Como Lake. Pure poetry on the water. Being in nature is the one thing keeping me more-or-less s...

The crow I recently encountered on Lafarge Lake was acting very strangely. It was standing on the banks rattling its beak menacingly, an...

Bosley and Belinda, the Romeo and Juliet of Como Lake, get a lot of play on my YouTube channel. I've started editing the videos and ...

There was this duck, see, and all I could see was its ass. It went on that way for a long time, so I filmed some of it. The duck's f...

Another mystery bird, seen on Como Lake. It was at such a distance that I could not zoom in without becoming extremely wobbly. I'd s...

The continuing saga of Bosley, the magpie duck/mallard hybrid, who has finally found love in Belinda - another hybrid. At least, we'...

Bosley, the magpie duck/mallard hybrid of Como Lake, has had an interesting summer. We almost always see this handsome, friendly guy dab...

I think this is one of the best videos I've taken. Seven ducklings were faced with an impossible challenge, but somehow managed to b...

Bosley is the name we gave to a very strange duck who lives with a flock of mallards in Como Lake. We kept wondering why a very large, p...

Our old friend Bosley the (former) Mystery Duck is alive and well! He disappeared over the worst of the winter, along with most of the m...

After the revelations in yesterday's email from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, we went to visit our newly-recognized magpie ...

The duck mystery deepens. For years now, Bill and I have been walking around Como Lake in Coquitlam - a very pleasant alternative to...