Birding, May 3, 2026: I got the yawn

Where: Piper Spit/Burnaby Lake (Burnaby), Tlahutum Regional Park (Coquitlam)Weather: Sunny, 28°C The weather today was more like what you would expect in about two months, when it’s, you know, summer. Crazy climate change. But this time II wore sunblock and even reapplied it! Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake Clear skies, no birds. Well, a few birds. It was a shorter and simpler day of birding, which was just as well, because it seemed the unusually warm temperatures were keeping a lot of birds tucked out of view, no doubt in cooler places. But it started with adorable goslings, still fuzzy and not yet ready to hiss or honk. I even caught one in an adorable, fuzzy little yawn. After the geese and a robin, we did not see many other birbs on the way to Piper Spit, but we did come across one fuzzy caterpillar. At the pier, it was strangely quiet, with few people around. We speculated that all the naughty bird feeders were in church confessing their sins. And also, we didn’t even see anyone…