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It is at Grace Cole Nature Park, near Shoreline.

Notes from my journal about this bird.
"Every time I go to my site I hear these birds, but I can never see them. They in general have very light-pitched calls. The call I was hearing a lot was tweet tweet in rapid succession. I also noticed that the closer the bird was the more deep the call sounded and the farther away the more light and sometimes screechy it sounded. This was the bird that I decided to follow, but it was extremely hard. They are extremely tiny birds, if they curled up I would compare them to the size of a golf ball, maybe a little bigger. They also tend to dwell high up in the canopy of my area, which makes sense as to why I had never actually spotted one of them till this journal trip when I had my binoculars. However, due to the yellowing of the trees it became even harder to spot one of these suckers. They themselves have yellow on their bodies which blend into the color of the leaves. The gray base color of their feathers also blended well into the tree trunk. They are also smaller than the leaves of the tree they were residing in. The one I watched the whole time was flying from tree branch to tree branch, but it never called out the whole time I was watching it. Mostly, I assume it was looking for food but I never saw it eat anything. When it would fly from branch to branch it would waste no motion flying around. Picture it similarly to how a cat jumps from object to object, very quick movements, but with little actual movement. It would do this constantly, like it could not stop moving constantly flitting back and forth. The most interesting thing this bird did while I was watching it was poop white feces while it landed on a branch. "

See sketches for physical description.

Floating on the water's surface in an area of field/meadow habitat that floods seasonally. After photographing, best efforts were made to transport all the springtails that were willing to drier ground. :-)

Stunning red form over sandstone along drainage

This observation collected under a BC Parks permit to visit Woodley Range Ecological Reserve. Note that this Ecological Reserve is closed to the public: research is conducted via permit. (https://bcparks.ca/eco_reserve/woodley_er.html)

Not sure that I have the exact location for this observation since I was hiking when I made it, but it would be close I think. There were some amazing wildflowers in this area!! We were trying to hike out quickly because we had 26 km. to hike in one day, but we couldn't help stopping to take photos as it was so amazing!