The Tuesday bird walk went to Columbia
Beach. The morning was cloudy with steady rain and a strong wind blasting off
the Strait of Georgia, the tide was a strong high king tide. Harlequin Ducks, Surf Scoters,
Bufflehead and Common
Goldeneye were just offshore swimming in the strong waves playing hide and seek
with us. We spotted many flocks of Common Murre and Pacific Loon racing up the strait with the
strong wind behind them. Black
Oystercatchers, Killdeer,
Black Turnstone, Black-bellied Plovers, Gulls and Dunlin were feeding and resting along the
gravel bar, as the tide was going out.
Seven dedicated birders saw and heard
the following thirty-six species:
Canada Geese
Brant
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Common Murre
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Bald Eagle
Black Oystercatcher
Killdeer
Black Turnstone
Black-bellied Plover
Dunlin
Mew Gull
Thayer's Gull
California Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Northern Flicker
Northwestern Crow
American Robin
Anna’s Hummingbird
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Golden-crowned Sparrow
House Finch
Pine Siskin
Black Oystercatchers: Ralph Hocken
Photo.
The Tuesday bird walk on January 19,
2016 will be going to the Little Qualicum River Estuary in Qualicum Beach. Meet
at the Parksville Community Park at the parking lot near the Lions Club Kids
Playground at 9:00 a.m. or at the Brant viewing platform in north Qualicum Beach
at about 9:20 a.m.
Good birding
Neil Robins
Parksville
Thebirdstore.blogspot.com
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