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Happy Finds

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Our resident ducks were settled on a sandbar in their favourite creek.

They need to enjoy that bit of real estate as the creek is beginning to rise a bit from a recent rain (and hopefully, more rainy days will happen soon). This is important as, if you look about a quarter of the way up from the photo’s bottom frame and in the centre, you will see a pink spot. That’s a kokanee salmon attempting to swim upstream, and it’s very necessary that she get there in order to spawn.

A little further along the path, I saw a heron.

I wanted to capture the reflections, but got a bonus.

Happy finds are such lovely additions to a great walk.

Happy Friday.

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    1. I couldn’t agree more, Wayne. Locally, we have been fortunate enough to get short showers through the summer which mitigated the worst of the drought, but that was just in our immediate area. Even so, it’s dust-dry.

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    1. These are the land-locked salmon, so they spend their lives in lakes instead of the ocean. Then they travel upstream to spawn before dying. Bears will wait on the banks to capture them; the salmon are their main food source before they go into hibernation. But with this drought the rivers and creeks are too low in some places for the fish to make it, which is starving the bears. Fingers crossed we start getting lots more rain.

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