American Goldfinch: Ralph Hocken Photo.
The Tuesday Bird Walk for the Oceanside area resumed this week and went to the Shelly Road side of the Englishman River Estuary in Parksville.
Highlights of the morning included watching as two Black-throated Gray Warblers and a Warbling Vireo dropped out of the sky onto a big Ash Tree. Several American Goldfinch moved through the bushes and we watched White-crowned Sparrows moving through bushes and along the ground. A flock of Red Crossbills nosily flew overhead. A Spotted Sandpiper flew across the river and then bobbed his tail as he probed along the shore for food. A Barred Owl, perched on a low branch, gave us impressive looks until he flew into the forest. After a few minutes he gave a few calls to let us know he was still there.
Thirteen birders heard and saw the following forty-two species of birds:
Canada Goose
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Common Merganser
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Bald Eagle
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Merlin
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Mew Gull
California Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Band-tailed Pigeon
Barred Owl
Anna's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Red-breasted Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Warbling Vireo
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
Bushtit
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Brown Creeper
Bewick's Wren
Golden-crowned Kinglet
American Robin
European Starling
Cedar Waxwing
Black-throated Gray Warbler
Western Tanager
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Purple Finch
House Finch
Red Crossbill
American Goldfinch
Good birding
Neil Robins
Parksville
British Columbia
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