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According to the guy who came along and appeared to know a lot more about birds than I do, this is a Sharp-shinned Hawk.
I heard something in the brush near me as I approached it. I got too close but scaring the hawk worked out for me as he flew to this perch which provided a better view. This is the first one of these birds that I've seen at the park.
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This is my sharps container. It is a pretty big one. It's not full, even though I have had it for a year and a half.
It's full of insuli syringes and pump supplies.
This hawk would attack me every time I took her picture, (we have been watching them for several years), she brushed my ear once when she came at me from behind, she usually came at me directly , she would get to about two feet from my face, then sharply veer off, as i lowered my camera. I made sure i did not annoy her to much, but it gave her a bit of excercise...They raised three babies in the nest. As a side note, I would see her fly into the oak tree, and as soon as she did, the woodpecker would really start making noise. I found out after about a year, the noise was not a woodpecker, we have relativly few here, it was in fact her.
Look close at her eye....
Day 5 - Sharp (and clearly the focus on the picture was not sharp but I only had my phone with me & not my Canon - must learn to carry it at all times!!!)
This sharp-tailed snake (Contia tenuis) was found in one of my plots in Mill Hill Regional Park in Langford. One of the rarest snakes in Canada and under threat of extinction due to habitat loss from development, these elusive critters, about the size of a pencil, spend most of their time underground and are almost never seen on the surface. However, this one was casually nestled down in the moss by a rock when I found it. This sighting documents an entirely new location for this species so I was excited to tell my friend Christian, who researches these snakes, about it.