I decided to do a series of “What’s for lunch” photos showing the different birds eating what they do.
It is one of the most fascinating parts of bird photography for me.Likewise many others.

What was supposed to be a mostly sunny day turned out to be a photographic nightmare. High overcast skies, and a bird list that was like none other.
The clearest spots I saw looked like over the Boundary Bay area, so I headed out to check the dikes and dike roads.
Eagles were everywhere as well as the harriers.
I decided I wanted to see if  the Kestrel was around, so I went looking.
About to give up and go to Blackie Spit I looked on a overhead powerline and saw the Kestrel.
Sitting there awhile watching it flew off, and I thought it was gone, so I drove off.
But….it had swooped down and got a mouse and went back to a closer wire to chow down.
The lightin was terrible but i took numerous shots just in case.
Here is lunch today.

After watching this I decided to leave, and drove by some fence posts, and spotted a short eared owl about 50 feet away, and what could have been a monumental photo, turned out underexposed because of such dark conditions.

The list for today seen, not all photographed

• Kestrel Falcon
• Short Eared Owl
• Approx 40 Eagles
• Golden Eagle
• Harriers
• 4 Cooper’s Hawks
• Sharp Shinned Hawk
• Red Tailed Hawk
• Northern Shrike

This was just among the raptors.
The usual juncos and sparrows around, plus more than usual red winged blackbirds for the area.