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It is not too often that a cold spell on the coast creates the conditions where the ground is covered with snow for a number of days.  With snow coming right to the water's edge animal behaviour changes.  The otters convert the dock into a makeshift "slip'n slide" rolling, sliding, and frolicking.  The flocks of small birds move quietly through the branches, their sounds muffled by the snow on the tree branches.  Squirrel and chipmunk trails become obvious in the snow. It is a different world when the snow sticks but it is transient.  After a few days everything is...

I'm not complaining but taking pictures of soaring seagulls is hard. Many years ago ferries plying the waters of British Columbia used to throw garbage overboard.  This attracted a multitude of seagulls that would travel back and forth with the ships.  They would surf the wind created by the boats movement creating opportunities to take closeup pictures as they soared almost stationary next to the boat.  At some point the ferries stopped throwing garbage overboard and most seagulls stopped accompanying them.  The opportunity to have a seagull soaring stationary next to you at eye level is now much harder to...