Red Tailed Hawk

About fifty yards up the road this morning we spotted this guy, perched on top of a hydro pole.

I walked up again with the old house trousers on, looking like I'd just got out of bed (not far off) and took a few pictures. We think this may be a juvenile Red Tailed Hawk, at first we thought it may be an Osprey, but the patterning and form is not right. The next picture in flight shows good wing and wingtip definite.

Exciting stuff as we approach spring.

Bird on the Wire

As we have a good block of woodland behind the house we have been having a regular group of visitors here, we think that they are either Sharp Shinned Hawks or Coopers Hawks. Their coloring has been predominantly grey with square tail which leans us towards the former.

This guy this morning was concerned as I approached, gave me a good old look as I took the picture.

City Hall.

City Hall. Cambie Street. Vancouver.

Classic lines, reminds me of a building style from my home city, Liverpool.

Valentines Day

Valentines Day + Vancouver + Cheese + Beer.

Early ferry, Blenz coffee for breakfast, a trip up to Benton Brothers and then down to the Dockside brew pub, lunch then onto Cactus Club for more of the same, back on the 5.30pm ferry and home for a cheese sampling.

Perfect day.

Pancake Tuesday

Yes, it is a Tuesday and we did have pancakes.

Oh I feel so full now.

Kindle is dead. RIP

One of my Facebook friends posted this morning that his Kindle had died, being a helpful sort of chap I decided to investigate how to reset the Kindle, so I grabbed mine and found that the battery was flat.

No issues, that has happened before, after the initial frenzy of reading on the device, it has sort of relaxed under the couch side table, doing very little except for being charged up every ten weeks or so.

This time it was different.

Lifeless.

I contacted Amazon and they stepped me through the same reset routine I had tried twice, then said they would call back in an hour after a charge (my light never came on) which they didn't, so I contacted them again and the new guy stepped me through the same reset routine once more.

Dead.

They are nicely providing a free replacement of a 4th Generation Kindle.

I look forward to not using that one.