Silver Pheasants

 They always show themselves at the same time each year fighting over females prior to breeding.

The Scoters are back.

Large rafts of Scoters - Surf and a few White-winged along Hammond Bay the males displaying, feeding up before their return to the breeding grounds up north.

Thoughts of Breeding

It's that time of year again with the days warming at the approach of spring, the herring are spawning and our eagles are preparing for another breeding season. They have been collecting branches to add to their nest for the last month and are now regularly copulating. We had no fishing activity in our bay this year, with the Seiners cruising past most of the local spawn was north of us.