Yellow Warbler: Ralph Hocken Photo.
The Tuesday Bird Walk went to the Plummer Road side of the Englishman River Estuary in Parksville. The morning was cloudy with periods of rain. The walk started out with the sighting of a flock of Black and Vaux's Swifts hawking insects high in the sky. A flock of twelve Bald Eagles gave us a spectular sight high up in the sky, riding the thermos . We saw and heard both Willow Flycatchers and a Pacific-slope Flycatcher throughout the morning walk. There was a Yellow Warbler gleaning insects on a tall bush near the path. A flock of Brant Geese flew into the Estuary from the Strait.
Fourteen birders saw and heard the following forty-six species of birds:
Canada Goose
Brant
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Harlequin Duck
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Common Loon
Pelagic Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Killdeer
Black Oystercatcher
Mew Gull
California Gull
Thayer's Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Pigeon Guillemot
Black Swift
Vaux's Swift
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Willow Flycatcher
Pacific-slope Flycatcher
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Violet-green Swallow
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Red-breasted Nuthatch
American Robin
European Starling
Bohemian Waxwing
Cedar Waxwing
Orange-crowned Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Wilson's Warbler
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Brown-headed Cowbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
House Sparrow
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