During our many visits to Stanley Park in the years we've lived in Vancouver, we've fed robins and songbirds from our hands, marveled at huge pink and purple blooms in the beautiful rhodo garden, spied great blue herons nesting in trees, watched the antics of octupuses and beluga whales in the Vancouver Aquarium, laughed at curious raccoons and sprightly squirrels crossing the walking paths, and lost track of time gazing at Canada geese watching over their goslings by Lost Lagoon. (sandinmysuitcase.com)
As an example, I sent him a link to a short video of heron babies in a mangrove patch amid Florida sprawl, shot in 2008 by my younger son, Jack (then nine years old). (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
Crows on Pine and White Herons on Willow, 16th century (Momoyama period). (artssummary.com)