Guarding the wetland.
Just a short distance from Vancouver's downtown core is its magnificent Stanley Park. The urban park, consisting of 400+ hectares (1,000 acres), it is a natural paradise used for hiking, walking, dining, swimming, and photographing spectacular views of the city and its north shores.
More Yolo wildlife
A singing bird taking morning bath in a Belize resort swimming pool.
Austin, Texas is the live-music capital of the world - or so they say. Sixth Street is filled with bars, restaurants and clubs and the Hike and Bike Trail along Lady Bird Lake, smack in the middle of the city, is very popular.
The Cosumnes River Preserve is located between Sacramento and Stockton, in the heart of Northern California's lush Central Valley. It encompasses more than 46,000 acres.
The Cosumnes River is quite small (80 miles) but it is the only remaining unregulated river on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevadas.
Lake Kittamaqundi is a 27-acre man-made lake in the heart of Columbia, Maryland, USA. It has many features including a seasonal boat rental house, a dock one can fish off, an exercise/hiking path, numerous restaurants, and is home to many species of bird-life (mainly ducks and geese).
This bird seems to have a real attitude. I took his photo aat Key West Florida, he did not seem pleased by my attention.
Walking through the crowded market in San Francisco el Alto, my eye was caught by a cage and its contents: pretty little pastel parakeets. Their job, to tell the future, selecting fortunes with their tiny beaks.