Black Turnstone: Ralph Hocken Photo.
The Tuesday Bird Walk went to Columbia Beach. The morning was cloudy with a stiff wind off the Strait of Georgia, but the rain held off until near the end of the morning.
Among the highlights were the sighting of six Common Murres and several flocks of Pacific Loons heading down the Strait of Georgia. We saw a flock of Dunlin and Black Turnstones and one Greater Yellowlegs along French Creek .
Eight birders saw and heard the following forty-one species of birds:
Canada Goose
American Wigeon
Mallard
Greater Scaup
Harlequin Duck
Surf Scoter
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Hooded Merganser
Common Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Double-crested Cormorant
Pelagic Cormorant
Bald Eagle
Black Oystercatcher
Greater Yellowlegs
Black Turnstone
Dunlin
Mew Gull
Thayer's Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Common Murre
Rock Dove
Belted Kingfisher
Northern Flicker
Northwestern Crow
Common Raven
Chestnut-backed Chickadee
American Robin
Varied Thrush
European Starling
Spotted Towhee
Song Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Red-winged Blackbird
Purple Finch
House Finch
Pine Siskin
House Sparrow
Neil Robins
Parksville
British Columbia
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