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Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· 16d

Bye bye, eagle! 🪶

The eagle in mid-air, wings fully extended

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· 16d

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A moment before takeoff, wings even more extended

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· 16d

Sorry about the poor picture quality, conditions were difficult: a long shot, fully backlit, the bird itself heavily shaded by branches. 🪶

The eagle now facing left, wings extended, preparing to take off

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· 16d

We see its parents regularly and so we guessed that they had a nest nearby, but we've never spotted it. 🪶

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· 16d

We heard some crows being very upset and when we looked to see why, it was this juvenile bald eagle. 🪶

A juvenile bald eagle, fully fledged but born this year, perched on a branch with wings partially extended, in quarter view from the right rear

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· 16d

Everything about them is amazing. 🪶

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· 16d

Just nature's comedians. 🪶

The oyster catcher now standing in full view, facing the camera

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· 16d

These guys always crack me up. 🪶

A black oyster catcher peers around a rock covered in small barnacles

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· 18d

Same bird a minute later. 🪶

The heron is now turned to the left and in the act of spearing a fish.

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· 18d

Now here is a handsome heron. 🪶

A great blue heron wading in tidewater, facing right and somewhat away from the camera.

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· 18d

A buck feeding, for once in our neighbour's yard. Good choice, buck!

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· 18d

Making their escape.

A family of fawns makes its escape from our backyard through a gap in the hedge.

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· 18d

Ears up!

A fawn looks toward the camera, ears perked, partially obscured by strands of coarse grass.

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· 18d

Here are some fawns from earlier in the year that I have finally got around to looking at.

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· 18d

One looks one way, one looks the other way ... 🪶

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· 19d

The famous Aislin cartoon of Drapeau eating a bowl of Olympic soup with a giant fly in it

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· Jul 10

It was a huge shit sandwich and everyone had to take a bite.

That scene after the Tet Offensive in Full Metal Jacket where the boss of the journalists is telling the crew that "it's a huge shit sandwich and we're all gonna have to take a bite"

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· Jul 4

DO NOT LEAVE SALMON UNATTENDED

A sign at a marina that says "beware of otters do not leave salmon unattended"

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· Jul 2

Saw this absolutely humungous heron at Harling Point today, but didn't have my camera. A truly great great blue heron. 🪶

A very large great blue heron standing on an exposed reef with the sea in the background

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· Jul 2

The classic Bizarro cartoon "Karl Rove and Plato"

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· Jun 29

Before we get into the breaking news, a fascinating bit of Canadian crime history: The true story by Don Levers of a bank job in Vancouver 50 years ago has everything you’d expect from a classic heist movie: a giant hole bored through the wall, the floor littered with gold coins and bearer bonds, a team of five notorious veteran thieves whose luggage gave them away. And then there’s the coda about the ones who were caught planning another bank job while they were on bail for this one (and their accomplice who stayed on the lam for years).

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· Jun 28

A plaque (in Italian) out up by the Dante Society

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· Jun 24

I've never seen one, just these yellow-bellied guys. Who are kind of cute little chonks, really.

A yellow-bellied marmot sitting on some rocks

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· Jun 21

Especially bizzare when you consider the contemporary German attitude.

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· Jun 19

The new gardeners.

Two mule deer fawns stand on our garden pathway eating out heather

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· Jun 19

A heron fishing for minnows about 3 meters off Gonzalez Beach. Phone pic. 🪶

A great blue heron stands in seawater, surrounded by kelp, facing left

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· Jun 18

The Scots will drink anything, but they won't drink that.

"The Scottish fans just drank the place dry and all they had was Bud Light"

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· Jun 17

#WoodpeckerWednesday it looks so innocent, doesn't it? Don't be fooled! 🪶

The woodpecker has returned to a normal position and looks very cute, on account of its small size and short bill

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· Jun 17

OK #WoodpeckerWednesday ! Here is a downy woodpecker snaking its murder tongue into a hole in the dead branch of a staghorn sumac. 🪶

A male downy woodpecker, perched on dead branch, with its head contorted in order to reach into a hole in the branch

Philip Koop 🇨🇦@philkoop· Jun 17

A *Republican* Army

Jesse and Walt about to call Saul because they need a *criminal* lawyer.